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Salon grand piano
Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified
Categories: Musical instruments
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
ohne N.I.
Description
Made by the pianoforte maker Julius Blüthner, in Leipzig ('Pianofortefabrik Julius Blüthner'), 1938-40, with English mechanism, opus number: 124 192
Material
Wood, Further kinds of material
Period
20th Century
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
Provenance unknown
Means of acquisition not clear
Provenance according to museum / collection
In a statement of 1950, the Museum of Military History ('Heeresgeschichtliches Museum') mentions a salon grand piano made by Julius Blüthner in Leipzig ('Pianofortefabrik Julius Blüthner') of unknown provenance amongst those acquired objects, which are summarized under the term of withdrawn property ('entzogenes Vermögen')
Art Restitution Advisory Board
The questionable nature of the provenance of the art or cultural object is being or has been examined by the museum/the collection/the Commission for Provenance Research. So far, the case has not been dealt with by the Art Restitution Advisory Board.
No recommendation has been issued yet.
Federal Minister of Defence
No decision has been reached so far.
The art or cultural object is kept in the museum/in the collection.
Annotations
The salon grand piano has been kept as a loan in the University for Music and Applied Art ('Universität für Musik und angewandte Kunst') formerly the State Academy for Music and Applied Art ('Staatsakademie für Musik und angewandte Kunst') since 1946.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism