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Italian landscape with hill town

Restitution status: Heirs being sought

Categories: Paintings / Watercolours, Drawings / Pencil drawings

Object Data

Artist

Rumohr, Freiherr Carl Friedrich von

Museum

Albertina

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

Provenance

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).

Committee

Art Restitution Advisory Board

Pendency

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.

Recommendation

The Art Restitution Advisory Board has recommended that the art or cultural object is to be restored to the owners or their legal successors.

Committee in charge

Federal Minister for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport

Decision

The body in charge has decided to restore the art or cultural object to the owners or their legal successors.

Implementation

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

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