Local farce
Restitution status: Return to the heirs has occurred
Categories: Paintings / Watercolours
Object Data
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Description
Watercolour. Signed and dated 1840
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Period
Provenance Data
Provenance according to museum / collection
Dorotheum 1938 - 1945
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.