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Nodder: the bird seller of Imst
Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified
Categories: Arts and crafts / Further kinds of arts and crafts
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
ÖMV/45264
Description
Nodder standing on molded base, the bird seller of Imst in traditional dress carrying a bird cage on his back, which he rests on a tree stump. On his belt are the initials A.G., presumably Alexander Giradi (he played the lead role at the première of the operetta “The Bird Seller” 1891). Tyrol. [?]
Height
17.2 cm
Width
6.8 cm
Period
2nd half of the 19th Century
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
unknown
Purchase from the Dorotheum 1938-45
Board of the Society for Folk Life and Folk Art
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