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Priscacara, Green River Shales
Restitution status: Heirs being sought
Categories: Further categories / Fossils
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
Geologische Abteilung Nr. 1938/87
Description
Rocky Mountains, Wyoming, USA
Material
Stone
Motif
Animals
Period
Romanticism
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
Martha (born November 1, 1887) and Eugen Schlesinger (born September 6, 1874)
Purchase from a private collection
Provenance according to museum / collection
So called acquisition in 1938
Art Restitution Advisory Board
The Art Restitution Advisory Board has decided on the restitution of the art.
The Art Restitution Advisory Board has recommended that the art or cultural object is to be restored to the owners or their legal successors.
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
No decision has been reached so far.
The art or cultural object is kept in the museum/in the collection.
Annotations
In its meeting of 28 June 2006 the Advisory Board unanimously reached the following decision: The Advisory Board recommends to the Federal Minister for Education, Science and Culture that the two fossil fish from the Natural History Museum in Vienna be handed over to the legal successors of Martha Schlesinger. The aforementioned objects are listed in the enclosed personal dossier and designated with 'Martha Schlesinger'.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism