English Translation

-2 - o supervisory authorities - it would be quite understandable if the assurances referred to in (c) concerning the monitoring of a repair in Prague were not considered sufficient by the responsible Austrian authorities or for other reasons were to be rejected. Finally, it is close, even if this has not been expressed so far, that one would like to owe the restoration of these valuable testimonies of old German art in Bohemia to German hands. 2) Should the pictures be returned to Hohenfurt after the repair or - as a loan of the Hohenfurth Abbey in the "National Gallery" in Prague? Of course, it is not to be forgotten that first of all the Hohenfurt Abbey is the owner of the pictures. The following must be noted: Up to now it has not been proved that the 9 panels have been worked for the (Gothic) collegiate church. As mentioned above, their storage there has only been secured since l845. It is assumed (also because of the figure of a Lord of Rosenberg, a member of the family who donated the monastery around l260), that the tables - perhaps as a high age - (in which arrangement and frame is disputed) d 18. were placed in the choir, in l7. In the middle of the 19th century they reappeared and were later transferred to the so-called "Stiftsmuseum" in the adjacent monastery. The often made attempts to bring the plates into a connection in such a way that they produce a simultaneously meaningful and visually satisfactory, for the 4th century at all possible _ total composition, have not been successful so far. Evidently some boards are missing, but even without that it remains quite unclear how the 9 large boards painted on one side could have formed an altar structure within the possibilities of medieval Kirehen equipment known to us. Therefore, only an identically museal hanging of the boards next to and respectively. to consider this solution on a longitudinal wall of the church; especially emp- Bupu, Zcheint does not lack this solution with regard to the local situation. Thus, the possibilities, the images in the church, with which they have been connected for a long time, - somehow meaningfully regrouped into a total work - should also be taken into account.