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Restitution status: Heirs being sought
Categories: Paintings / Watercolours
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
34828
Description
Watercolour, covering white
Motif
Genre
Period
2nd half of the 19th Century
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
Dr. Oskar Reichel
Assignment from the Federal Office for the Protection of Monuments (Austria)
Provenance according to museum / collection
Filiation: Oskar Reichel, Vienna. Karoline Khittel, Vienna. Dorotheum, Vienna. Acquired from the so-called Art Museum, Linz (i.e. Hitler's museum project) in 1944. Transferred to the Albertina by the Federal Office for the Protection of Monuments ('Bundesdenkmalamt') in 1963 (Zl. 1274/63. Finally inventorised 1965). A report to the Commission for Provenance Research is available
Art Restitution Advisory Board
The Art Restitution Advisory Board has decided on the restitution of the art.
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 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 is kept in the museum/in the collection.
Annotations
In its meeting of December, 6. 2011 the Advisory Board unanimously reached the following decision: The Advisory Board recommends to the Federal Minister for Education, Science and Culture that the hereinafter called art object from the graphic collection of the Albertina be handed over to the heirs of Oskar Reichel.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism