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Peasant girl shovelling

Restitution status: Heirs being sought

Categories: Paintings / Watercolours

Object Data

Artist

Pettenkofen, August Xaver Karl von (1822-1889)

Museum

Albertina

Inventory Number

34804

Description

Watercolour, stamp, bottom right: 'NACHLASS / PETTENKOFEN (i.e. the estate of Pettenkofen)'

Motif

Genre

Period

1st half of the 19th Century, 2nd half of the 19th Century

Provenance Data

Provenance

Assignment from the Federal Office for the Protection of Monuments (Austria)

Provenance according to museum / collection

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 in 1965). A report to the Commission for Provenance Research is available.

Committee

Art Restitution Advisory Board

Pendency

The art restitution case is closed.

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 Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service 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.

Annotations

In its meeting of June 15, 2018 the Advisory Board unanimously reached the following decision: The Advisory Board recommends to the Federal Minister for EU, Art, Culture and Media that the art object from the graphic collection of the Albertina be handed over to the heirs of Louis Rothschild.

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