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Penitent Magdalene
Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified
Categories: Paintings
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“1963 allocations”
In a decree dated 29 June 1963, the Ministry of Education authorised the Federal Monuments Authority to hand over artworks “intended for Hitler's planned ‘Führer Museum in Linz’” to the federal collections for safekeeping, as two storage rooms in the Salzburg Residence had to be emptied.[1] These included the painting in question.
[1] Cf. Museum of Art History, Portrait Gallery, 9/VI/Gal/1963, Tripp/Federal Monuments Authority to the Directorate of the Museum of Art History, 17 July 1963. See also Alexandra Caruso/Anneliese Schallmeiner, Das Bundesdenkmalamt und der Bestand der sogenannten "1960er Jahre Zuweisungen", in: Kaiser/ Köstner-Pemsel/ Stumpf (eds.), Übernahme, pp. 99-114.