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Restitution status: Heirs being sought
Categories: Paintings / Watercolours, Drawings / Pencil drawings
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
28088
Description
Watercolour over pencil, 1816-1821, stamp: Wilhelm Koenig (Lugt number 2653b, below right), inscription, below right: 'Carl Freyherr (i.e. Baron) von Rumohr' (pencil, in a different hand), inventory number
Height
18.7 cm
Width
34 cm
Motif
Landscape
Period
1st half of the 19th Century
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
Koenig, Wilhelm
Acquisition from the art market/antique shop
Provenance according to museum / collection
Filiation: Wilhelm Koenig (Lugt number 2653b, bottom right). Acquired from the 'Neue Galerie' (Vita Maria Künstler), Vienna, for 300 Reichsmarks in 1938. On the acquisitions from the collection of Wilhelm König (see also inventory number 29290), the former Vice-president of the 'Neue Wiener Bankgesellschaft' (a Viennese bank), a report for the Commission for Provenance research is available, however no decision has yet been reached by the advisory board (M.G. 17. 10. 2006).
Art Restitution Advisory Board
The questionable nature of the provenance of the art or cultural object is being or has been examined by the museum/the collection/the Commission for Provenance Research. So far, the case has not been dealt with by the Art Restitution Advisory Board.
The Art Restitution Advisory Board has recommended that the art or cultural object is to be restored to the owners or their legal successors.
Federal Minister for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media 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 is kept in the museum/in the collection.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism