Design for Bürger's Ballad 'Lenore'
Restitution status: Return to the heirs has occurred
Categories: Drawings / Pen-and-ink drawings
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
28138
Description
Pen-and-ink drawing in blue, with wash, over pencil, blue framing line around the depiction, 1835, labelled at bottom right: Inventory number, caption at bottom left: 'O Mutter Mutter hin ist hin verloren' (pencil), caption at centre: illegible
Height
37.5 cm
Width
25.5 cm
Motif
Studies and sketches
Period
1st half of the 19th Century
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
Berolzheimer, Michael
Acquisition from the art market/antique shop
Provenance according to museum / collection
Michael Berolzheimer, Munich, acquired at auction, Auction House Adolf Weinmüller, Munich, 9 to 10 March 1939, lot 772
Art Restitution Advisory Board
The art restitution case is closed.
The committee in charge has recommended if possible to restore the art or cultural object, if owners or their legal successors can be established.
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
The body in charge has decided to restore the art or cultural object to the owners or their legal successors.
The art or cultural object was restituted to the owners or their legal successors.
Annotations
In its meeting of 14 March 2001 the Advisory Board unanimously reached the following decision: The Advisory Board recommends to the Federal Minister for Education, the Arts and Culture that the hereinafter called art objects from the graphic collection of the Albertina be handed over to the heirs of Michael Berolzheimer.The object was handed over to the heirs on August 6, 2010.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism