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Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified
Categories: Paintings / Watercolours, Drawings / Pencil drawings, Drawings / Pen-and-ink drawings
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
34824
Description
Watercolour, pen-and-ink in black, over pencil, c.1859, inscription: 'Rotulus'; in central window: 'Selig sind, die da hungert u. dürstet nach der Gerechtigkeit, denn sie sollen gesaettiget werden. Math. 5.6.' (i.e. Matthew, pen-and-ink in black-grey), upper centre: 'No 29.' (pencil), lower centre: 'Earl of Glasgow. Das Wappen erhält einen höheren Raum' (pencil); above left: 'To be executed as approved CHWilsen < interlaced > Lec < ... > ' (pen-and-ink in black-brown), below left: 'approved for the Comtn Andrew app chair.n 21 Sept 59' (pen-and-ink in brown), 'Approved Henry < ... > Roy < ? > Octr 12. 1859' (pen-and-ink in brown)
Height
52.3 cm
Width
33.9 cm
Motif
Studies and sketches
Period
2nd half of the 19th Century
Provenance Data
Assignment from the Federal Office for the Protection of Monuments (Austria)
Provenance according to museum / collection
Filiation: Kurt Köster, Hamburg. Mediated by Johannes Jantzen, Bremer Werkschau, Bremen, 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 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.
No recommendation has been issued yet.
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
No decision has been reached so far.
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