English Translation

11 of Gottfried Hohenauer's decree was to be carried out only after further consultation, because Bernhard Rust intended an intervention with Hermann Göring. At the same time, lawyer Ernst Egger committed himself to the Fideikomiss Senat for its faster approach to the fideikommis legal approval of the sale and presented an expert opinion by Eugen Primavesi, expert and estimator of the art department of the Dorotheum, which, for a domestic sale, was the appropriateness of the net price of RM 1.8 million. On 22 December 1939, the lawyers of Eugen Czernin, Anton Gassauer and Karl Trauttmansdorff, informed the Fideikommiss Court, citing the comparison of 23 February 1933, that Eugen Czernin had consent to the sale. The following day, Jaromir Czernin and his lawyer Ernst Egger spoke to the Chief Finance President of Vienna-Niederdonau in Vienna about the calculation of the inheritance fees. By two telegrams Hans Heinrich Lammers from 29/30. However, there was a decisive turnaround in December 1939: In these he informed Josef Bürckel and the (Vienna) Ministry of Internal and Cultural Affairs that Hermann Göring – "despite the agreeing telegram of the ministerial director Gritzbach – did not grant his permission to sell the present painting and Adolf Hitler wished "that the picture would remain in the gallery and not have the picture without his personal permission." As a result, Friedrich Plattner withdrew the previous instructions for the release of the painting to the Central Office for Monument Protection on 20 December 1939. On December 5, 1939, Friedrich Plattner stated that he thought it desirable for the Kunsthistorisches Museum to purchase the painting from the state, because Jaromir Czernin was now "not allowed to sell the sale which was very necessary for him for economic reasons." In January 1940, Eugen Czernin stated that the prevention of the sale was due to Herbert Seiberl, who would now propose a state purchase. After a visit to Herbert Seiberl, he continued that even after a state acquisition, the painting could possibly remain in the gallery, thus "after almost eight years of immeasurable writing and writing. Talking, juridical subtleties, an impenetrable scramble of hypotheses and assumptions, threats, fears, resultless negotiations, blackmails and angular moves of Jaromir's side, is now giving a solution to the matter.