Cittern
Restitution status: Return to the heirs has occurred
Categories: Musical instruments
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
Kat. Nr. 284
Description
Cover made of hardwood, notches and bottom made of flamed maple with very regular, fine flames, thirteen tuning pegs, upper nut and bridge made for a single string and four three-chord positions, 12 frets
Material
Wood
Height
99.5 cm
Width
32 cm
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
Felix and Josefine Löw-Beer
Assignment/presentation from the public sector 1938-45
Provenance according to museum / collection
Entered the Collection of Old Musical Instruments for conservation on June 30, 1939 from the 'Zentraldepot für beschlagnahmten jüdischen Kulturbesitz' (Central Depot for Jewish Cultural Property)
Art Restitution Advisory Board
The art restitution case is closed.
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 was restituted to the owners or their legal successors.
Annotations
Not listed in the inventory of the Collection of Old Musical Instruments. Still bears the catalogue number of the Dorotheum.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism