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Corner niche
Restitution status: Heirs being sought
Categories: Furniture / Further kinds of interior decoration items
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
127.425
Description
Cupboard for the corner of a room, triangular sectional view, of wood stained in dark brown. Top and bottom board, two compartments. Structured in three vertical axes, each with 'balustrade' of short turned sticks at bottom. Central cut-outs heavily profiled, the edges with gilt lacquer. In the two upper corners lattices of small turned short sticks ('marabīya' technique). Triangular small ajour top piece, in the centre with a small board with scripture in gilt colour, profiled top edge of which is partly broken. Width of the back sides 19.29 in. each. Around 1900. Africa - Egypt (Cairo or Alexandria)
Material
Wood
Height
234 cm
Period
20th Century
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
Popper, Georg
Loan to museum/collection
Provenance according to museum / collection
On loan from the 'NSV-Hernals (i.e. the 'Volkswohlfahrt', a Nazi welfare organisation in the Viennese district Hernals)', July 1939
Art Restitution Advisory Board
The Art Restitution Advisory Board has decided on the restitution of the art.
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 Minister for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport
No decision has been reached so far.
The art or cultural object is kept in the museum/in the collection.
Annotations
In its meeting of June 24, 2009 the Advisory Board unanimously reached the following decision: The Advisory Board recommends to the Federal Minister for Education, the Arts and Culture that the mentioned 92 ethnographic objects and 42 books be handed over to the legal successors of Ing. Dr. Georg Popper. The aforementioned objects are listed in the enclosed file and designated with NSV Hernals (probably Ing. Georg Popper).
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism