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Restitutionsberichte / Restitution Reports
Report of the Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture to the Nationalrat (Lower Chamber of the
Austrian Parliament) on the Restitution of Art Objects from Austrian Federal Museums and Collections
Section 2 (3) of the Federal Statute of 4 December 1998 on the Restitution of Art Objects from the Austrian
Federal Museums and Collections provides for an annual obligation to inform the Nationalrat of restitutions of art
objects effected during the reporting period.
The purpose of the Restitution Act is to restitute art objects from the Austrian federal museums and
collections which passed into the ownership of the Republic of Austria in the course or as a consequence of Nazi
tyranny to the original owners or their legal successors. Thus, provenance research, i.e. a complete review of all
acquisitions made during the time of the Nazi regime from 1938 to 1945 as well as in the Post-War Era, became a
prerequisite and complementary task of this purpose of the Act. The Commission for Provenance Research has been working
under these premises since its establishment in 1998.
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