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Restitution status: Return to the heirs has occurred
Categories: Paintings / Watercolours
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
60.560
Description
Watercolour. Signed and dated 1840
Height
22 cm
Width
28 cm
Motif
Caricatures
Period
1st half of the 19th Century, Biedermeier/Empire
Provenance Data
Purchase from the Dorotheum 1938-45
Provenance according to museum / collection
Dorotheum 1938 - 1945
Viennese Commission for Restitution
The art restitution proceedings have been concluded.
The Art Restitution Advisory Board has established owners or their legal successors and has recommended to restore to them the art or cultural object.
City of Vienna, executive city councillor in charge (municipal authorities)
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 is kept in the museum/in the collection.
Annotations
Sixth report on restitution, Vienna 15 November 2005 (p. 273): 'Concerning the acquisitions of the municipal collections from the Dorotheum, from the art trade and from antiques dealers as well as donations from public institutions, the Viennese Commission on Restitution in its meeting on 27 October 2004 has come to the conclusion that if the sole indication of a possible expropriation is a date of the acquisition between 13 March 1938 and 8 May 1945 this is not alone sufficient to assume the item's possibility of restitution. However, these acquisitions and donations cannot be considered as safe (as they possibly involved items expropriated from anonymous victims).'
The object was handed over to the heir and was subsequently repurchased by the museum.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism