Harmonia, Amor and Psyche
Restitution status: Return to the heirs has occurred
Categories: Paintings / Watercolours, Drawings / Pen-and-ink drawings
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
28394
Description
Pen-and-ink drawing in grey, watercolour over pencil, after 1849, labelled at centre below under the depiction, always under the according figure: 'Harmonia', 'Amor', 'Psyche' (pencil), bottom right under the depiction: 'B. Genelli fect.' (pen-and-ink drawing in grey)
Height
34.5 cm
Width
50.2 cm
Motif
Allegories and histories
Period
1st half of the 19th Century
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
Berolzheimer, Michael
Acquisition from the art market/antique shop
Provenance according to museum / collection
Michael Berolzheimer, Munich, Auction House Adolf Weinmüller, Munich, auction 9 to 10 March 1939, lot 602, art dealer 'Kunsthandel Reinhold Puppel', Berlin, acquired from Adolf Gruis, Berlin, in 1939 (compare Zl. 800/1939)
Art Restitution Advisory Board
The art restitution case is closed.
The committee in charge has recommended if possible to restore the art or cultural object, if owners or their legal successors can be established.
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
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 was restituted to the owners or their legal successors.
Annotations
In its meeting of 14 March 2001 the Advisory Board unanimously reached the following decision: The Advisory Board recommends to the Federal Minister for Education, the Arts and Culture that the hereinafter called art objects from the graphic collection of the Albertina be handed over to the heirs of Michael Berolzheimer.The object was handed over to the heirs on August 6, 2010.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism