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Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified
Categories: Drawings / Pencil drawings, Drawings / Pen-and-ink drawings
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
34821
Description
Watercolour, covering white, pen-and-ink in black-grey, over pencil, 1861, inscription, upper centre: 'No.15' (pen-and-ink in brown), above left: 'roth' (pencil); '15' (pen-and-ink in brown); centre below the figure scene: 'No 15. Centr Light. 2 Kings. C. IV V. 36.' (pen-and-ink in brown), device, below a coat of arms lower centre: 'Prsto < ? > et Spero' (pencil); ' < ... > Merry < ... > ' (pencil). On reverse: inscriptions illegible due to mount. Below left: 'WCowper < interlaced > 1t. Cond < ? > of < ... > Feb 14. 1861' (pen-and-ink in brown)
Height
51.6 cm
Width
27.8 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