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Six badges of the Black-yellow Cross ('schwarz-gelbes Kreuz'), an Austro-Hungarian war aid organisation during WW I
Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified
Categories: Coins and medals
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
N.I. 67.961
Description
Austria-Hungary, 1914
Material
Further kinds of metal
Period
20th Century
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
Provenance unknown
Acquisition from the VUGESTA/GESTAPO
Provenance according to museum / collection
On 20 November 1940, the Gestapo handed over eleven Black-yellow Cross medals ('Schwarz-gelbes Kreuz') from 1914, issued by an Austro-Hungarian war aid organisation in WW I, to the head of the Museum of Military History ('Heeresgeschichliches Museum'). They were filed in the museum inventory as inventory number 'N.I. 67.961' (archival source: archive of the museum, 'HGM Zl. 514/1940' [not extant], yet this reference is listed in the book recording incoming and outgoing mail of the museum, the 'Postbuch').
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
By inquiry in 1999, only six of the original eleven pieces were found in the collections of the Museum of Military History ('Heeresgeschichtliches Museum'). The other five must be regarded as 'war losses' due to relocations and hiding during WW II.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism