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Half-length portrait of a Bosnian Turk / Old Jew with oriental background, 1926
Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified
Categories: Paintings / Oil Paintings
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
Neue Galerie I/990
Description
Oil on canvas
Height
46.5 cm
Width
76.5 cm
Motif
Portraits
Period
20th Century
Provenance Data
Means of acquisition not clear
Provenance according to museum / collection
After the 'annexation' of Austria to the German Reich on 1938, it was decided to dissolve Burgenland; the southern area was assigned to Styria. Therefore, some confiscated artworks in Jewish collections in Güssing were transferred to the Joanneum in Graz, including the above named painting. It is mentioned in one of the lists of confiscated items from January 1939, on a certificates of receipt dated 1940 and on an old index card dated 1941. On the basis of the available documents, it cannot currently be linked to a specific previous owner.
Styrian Provincial Government
No decision has been reached so far.
The art or cultural object is kept in the museum/in the collection.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism