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Portrait of a gentleman
Restitution status: Return to the heirs has occurred
Categories: Paintings / Watercolours
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
34814
Description
Watercolour, 1839
Motif
Portraits
Period
1st half of the 19th Century
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
Josef und Auguste Blauhorn
Assignment from the Federal Office for the Protection of Monuments (Austria)
Provenance according to museum / collection
Filiation: Emil Geyer, Vienna. Gabriele Gross, 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 proceedings have been concluded.
The committee in charge has recommended if possible to restore the art or cultural object, if owners or their legal successors can be established.
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 was restituted to the owners or their legal successors.
Annotations
In its meeting of June 3rd, 2013 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 Josef Blauhorn. The object was handed over to the heirs on July 9th, 2013.
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© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism