English Translation

21 according to § 4a para. 1 export ban law to put the gallery under state supervision. In the application it was stated, among other things, that the painting gallery "with the famous image of Jan Vermeers after the Liechtenstein Collection is the most famous private gallery in Vienna and "Golden Ruf" enjoy. With notice of 24 January 1924, Zl. 167/1924, the Bundesdenkmalamt found that the preservation of the Gemäldegalerie was in the public interest in accordance with § 3 Denkmalschutzgesetz. Since the export of the actual painting was prohibited without the approval of the Federal Denkmalsamt pursuant to § 1 export ban law, the question of an export permit was at the latest since the comparison of the 23rd century. In February 1932, between Jaromir Czernin and Eugen Czernine, who proposed a sale of the painting, an essential element of the considerations. A concrete application for an export permit was not submitted to the Federal Monument Office and such an authorisation was not granted by the Federal Memorial Office (or later the Central Monument Protection Office) before the "connection" of 1938. The present documents show that the Federal Monument Office (or the Central Office) was not inclined to grant such an authorisation and stressed the special importance of the painting in comparison to the rest of the collection. ==References====External links==* Official website* Official website of the Federal Ministry of Justice* Official Website of the German Federal Ministry for Justice of the Federal Ministry of Education, that they will not give consent to the export of the actual painting without a higher instruction in connection with the regulation of the property rights at the gallery. On 1 April 1934, a statement by officials of the Federal Monument Office was considered a serious loss to the painting in question, but because a purchase by a domestic cultural institution seemed unrealistic, the loss was to be mitigated by the dedication of a painting attributed to Albrecht Dürer. However, it follows from a report by attorney Anton Gassauer to Eugen Czernin dated 12 May 1934 that the Federal Memorial Office had told the Federal Ministry of Education not to grant the export permit unless another valuable painting was left to the state. The export of the painting was a disproportionate victim to the preservation of the other gallery in Vienna. After further consideration, the State Secretary and head of the art section in the Ministry of Education, Hans Pernter, informed the Federal Ministry of Justice that because of the