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The German version of The Art Database of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria will be available under: kunstrestitution.at. Please note that the English version of the database will be available online in spring 2007.
The art database contains information on objects of art and on objects of cultural value, which are located today in museums and in collections of the Republic of Austria or of the City of Vienna and which, according to current provenance research, are likely to have been expropriated during National Socialism. The publication in the art database takes place in cooperation with the museums and with the Austrian provenance research. This measure aims at the clarifying whether or to whom the objects should be restituted. Next to every single object you will find information regarding its restitution status .
According to Austrian law, works of art, which were looted under National Socialism in Austria, shall be returned to the original owners or to their legal successors. It is a statutory task of the National Fund to sell those objects of which no rightful owner can be found and to distribute the proceeds to victims of the National Socialist regime. Before the actual sale of the objects, the National Fund offers the possibility to identify restitutable art-objects by providing an art database in the internet.
From 16 October 2006 on, the German version of the National Fund's art database is published on the internet. In spring 2007, also the English version of the database will be available online.
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