Elisabeth Countess Kinsky

Restitution status: No heirs to be found - utilization by the National Fund

Categories: Photography / Positive prints / Portraits

Object Data

 

Artist

Downey

Museum

Austrian National Library

Inventory Number

Porträtsammlung 3449 Pf C (6a)

Description

Photograph

Motif

Portraits

Provenance Data

 

Former owner according to museum / collection

No information on former owner available

Provenance

Acquisition from the VUGESTA/GESTAPO

Provenance according to museum / collection

From the police 38 in 1944

Committee

Art Restitution Advisory Board

Pendency

The art restitution case is closed.

Recommendation

The Art Restitution Advisory Board has recommended the utilization of the art or cultural object by the National Fund.

Committee in charge

Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport

Decision

The body in charge has decided to hand over the art or cultural object to the National Fund for utilization.

Implementation

The art or cultural object is kept in the museum/in the collection.

Annotations

At its meeting on 29 June 2023, the Art Restitution Advisory Board unanimously adopted the following resolution: The Federal Minister of the Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport is recommended to transfer the objects specified in the following supplements to this resolution from the Austrian National Library to the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism to be sold and the proceeds used to benefit the victims in accordance with Sec. 2 (1) item 2 of the Art Restitution Act: 201 prints, 164 negatives (Uvachrome), picture archive and graphics collection and 793 positives, portrait prints, watercolours and hand drawings, picture archive and graphics collection, https://www.kunstdatenbank.at/files/content/kunstrestitution/rueckgabeempfehlungen/2023-06-29_Anonyme_Vorbesitzer.pdf.

The object was purchased by the Austrian National Library and the purchase price was transferred to the National Fund.

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