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The fish market (fishmonger and fishmongeress)
Restitution status: Restitution rejected
Categories: Paintings / Oil Paintings
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
5662
Description
Painting, oil on canvas, 1885, on reverse, bottom right: 'CANON 85 RS': top right: 'CANON', inventory number '210/65, 1936, 257622-1', with pencil: 'Bauer' and illegible German handwriting
Height
131.7 cm
Width
175 cm
Motif
Genre
Period
2nd half of the 19th Century
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
Salomon Rosenzweig (?)
Purchase from the Dorotheum after 1945
Provenance according to museum / collection
Vugesta - 'Sonderauftrag Linz' (i.e. Hitler's museum project for Linz) - Federal Office for the Protection of Monuments ('BDA, Sammelstelle A') - Acquisition at an auction at the Dorotheum, Vienna (564th art auction, 2 June 1964)
Art Restitution Advisory Board
The Art Restitution Advisory Board has decided on the restitution of the art.
The Art Restitution Advisory Board has not recommended the restitution of the art or cultural object.
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
The body in charge has not recommended the restitution of the art or cultural object.
The art or cultural object is kept in the museum/in the collection.
Annotations
In its meeting of June 20, 2008 the Advisory Board unanimously reached the following decision: The Advisory Board cannot recommend to the Federal Minister for Education, the Arts and Culture that the painting be handed over to the legal successors of Salomon Rosenzweig (or to the successors of a third party). Reasons for the non-recommendation: In 1963, the painting was transferred to the Collection Agency A. This is equivalent to the restitution of the painting to the aggrieved owners, as their claim to restitution had previously been transferred by law to the Collection Agency. The requirement of Section 1 item 2 of the Art Restitution Law is therefore not met, as objects that were restituted after 1945 fall outside the scope of application of this law. Therefore, no further resolution of the question whether the painting actually belonged to Samuel Rosenzweig or to a third party is required.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism