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Restitution status: Heirs being sought
Categories: Arts and crafts / Lamps
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
H.I. 29.638 / Go 1844 / 1-2
Description
Silver, wrought, cast, engraved, embossed, Prague 1815
Material
Silver
Height
28.5 cm
Width
12.5 cm
Period
1st half of the 19th Century
Provenance Data
Purchase from the Dorotheum 1938-45
Provenance according to museum / collection
February 4, 1942, acquired from the Auction House Dorotheum
Art Restitution Advisory Board
The Art Restitution Advisory Board has decided on the restitution of the art.
The Art Restitution Advisory Board has established owners or their legal successors and has recommended to restore to them the art or cultural object.
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
The art or cultural object is kept in the museum/in the collection.
Annotations
Up till now no previous owner of the objects can yet be reported. Through publicity, provenance research at the MAK hopes for further information.
In its meeting on 29 June 2021 the Art Restitution Advisory Board reached the following decision: The Art Restitution Advisory Board recommends to the Federal Minister for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport that the hereinafter called art object from the MAK be handed over to the heirs of Dr. Alfred Kirchenberger.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism