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Restitution status: Return to the heirs has occurred

Categories: Paintings / Watercolours

Object Data

Artist

Schoeller, Johann Christian (1782-1851)

Museum

Wien 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

Provenance

Purchase from the Dorotheum 1938-45

Provenance according to museum / collection

Dorotheum 1938 - 1945

Committee

Viennese Commission for Restitution

Pendency

The art restitution proceedings have been concluded.

Recommendation

The Art Restitution Advisory Board has established owners or their legal successors and has recommended to restore to them the art or cultural object.

Committee in charge

City of Vienna, executive city councillor in charge (municipal authorities)

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

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.

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