Vienna museum exhibits painting by Malevich, illegally exported from Russia
10/06/2009
13:48
VIENNA, June 10 - RIA Novosti, Taras Lariohin. In Vienna, the Albertina Museum exhibited painting by Kazimir Malevich's "sense of the arrested person" illegally exported in the 90 years from Russia, reports the weekly Falter on Wednesday.
This painting from the collection of Herbert Batliner, which is a collector in 2007, gave the Vienna museum. The picture belonged to the previously biggest collectors of Russian avant-garde art to Nicholas Khardzhiev (1903-1996), whose collection "was in 1993-94 illegally exported from Russia," the paper says.
"Permission for export, which is required in Russia, as well as in Austria, was absent, and, according to Russian experts, such is unlikely to be granted for such central works from the late Malevich," - noted by the author.
At the request of the newspaper office Batliner said that the collector does not know or did not know that the painting was exported illegally to the West ", and promised to address this issue.
Albertina director Klaus Albrecht Schroeder is convinced that the problems with the exhibited work of Malevich will not. "There is no hint that anyone going to complain," - he said the newspaper, stressing that the purchase of paintings was Batliner legally.
Herbert Batliner - 80-year-old lawyer from Liechtenstein, who is also Austrian citizenship in 2007, gave his collection to the museum Albertina on a "permanent loan".
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Kazimir Malevich
Sensation of Man in Prison, 1930-31
Oil on canvas, 98 x 78