English Translation

5U $\ about the matter of the "Hohenfurter Tafeln." 112/5 The 9 panel paintings (with representations from the history of the Saviour) are among the most valuable works of old German painting in general; they were worked around l350 by an unknown German master in Bohemia (with the participation of some other hands). For a long time, they have been in the Cistercian monastery of Hohenfurt in southern Bohemia (Gau Oberdonau). In 1938 they came to the "National Gallery" in Prague as a loan from the monastery, where they were to be repaired free of charge, in order to be able to be shown here - as recognition for this - for a while more circles than is possible in the rather remote Hohenfurt. In addition, already in the time of the Czechoslovak Republic, the intention was to buy the plates for the "National Gallery" as by far the largest and most important collection of paintings of the Bohemian-Moravian countries Due to the various entries of the Austrian authorities and the German chairman of the German-Czech Special Commission, the following two questions have to be clarified: 1) Should the restoration of the paintings in Prague or in Vienna (which has already begun here) be carried out? First of all, it is easily understandable and quite legitimate for the Austrian conservationists to repair one of the most valuable medieval works of art in the Ostmark under their own permanent supervision.