Screen
Restitution status: Heirs being sought
Categories: Furniture / Further kinds of interior decoration items
Object Data
Artist
Museum
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Description
In three parts, in 'mašrabīya' technique, panelled at bottom. Dark; stained in dark brown wood. In the upper compartments small doors, which are missing in the centre of the screen. Brass hinges. Each compartment 65.35 x 23.82 in. Around 1900. Africa - Egypt (Cairo or Alexandria)
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Provenance Data
Former owner according 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
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).