Face mask: devil mask
Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified
Categories: Arts and crafts
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
ÖMV/45869
Description
Devil mask, carved from softwood, coloured. Angularly carved facial features, glued-on nose, two short pointed horns. Moselle region, Rhineland-Palatinate.
Height
28.2 cm
Width
15.4 cm
Period
2nd half of the 19th Century, 20th Century
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
Unknown
Acquisition from the art market/antique shop
Provenance according to museum / collection
Acquisition from the antiquarian bookshop of August III von Miller zu Aichholz "Tracht und Heimatkunst", Neuer Markt 8, 1010 Vienna
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