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Portrait of a Lady resembling Empress Elisabeth of Austria, with plaited hair and delicate features
Lost Art-ID
586432
Artist / Creator
Title
Portrait of a Lady resembling Empress Elisabeth of Austria, with plaited hair and delicate features
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Pastel colour / painted ; pastel
Description
Lady resembling Empress Elisabeth of Austria, with plaited hair and delicate features
Provenance
Jakob Lippowitz, Vienna; Oscar Löwenstein, Vienna, as a bequest from the above, 1934; confiscated by the Gestapo, 1941; current whereabouts unknown
Literature / Source
Bibliographical references:
Sophie Lillie, Was einmal war: Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens (Vienna: Czernin, 2003), 728–733
Elisabeth Schroll, “Irma Austin-Löwenstein,” in: Lexikon der Provenienzforschung, 11 September 2022
Archival references:
WStLA, BG Innere Stadt, A4, probate no. 22 A 90/40
BDA, Restitution materials, Personal file Austin-Löwenstein, fols. 94–95. Irma Löwenstein- Austin to Bundesdenkmamt, 28 April 1956
BDA, Irma Austin to Bundesdenkmalamt, 28 November 1958
BDA, Bundesdenkmalamt an W. H. Harcourt, 20 November 1958
BDA, Note for file
BDA, BMfF an BDA, 21 May 1957
BDA, Irma Austin to BDA [14 March 1961]
ÖStA, AdR, BMF, Dept. 34, no. 210.284-34/57. BMF to BDA, 21 May 1957
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