Found-Object Report | Object report

Weaving with inscription

Lost Art-ID

437981

Artist

Unknown

Title

Weaving with inscription

Datierung

1920 (um)

Object type

Consumer / interior textiles

Group of reported objects

Crafts and other folk arts

Material / Technique

Cotton / woven

Height

148.00 cm

Width

148.00 cm

Description

The square weaving made of sturdy material bears the inscription "Gesellschaft der Zionsfreunde" and shows two right way and the wrong way twice Moses und Aron, the inscription and the mosque / synagogue on the Machpelah Cave. This is a thank you gift of the Society for donations, with which immigrants were supported in Palestine.

Provenance

The weaving was established in 1994 by Ilse Michel, the Evangelical Theology Prof. widow Otto Michel, to the city of Tübingen passed as donation. She had been awarded the 1963 Professor and founder of the Institutum Judaicum (Tübingen) Michel of Tübingen team together with a slice (Lost Art ID 417 839). The cloth is directly linked with the destruction of Tübingen synagogue: It was stolen during the pogrom of these and thrown into the Neckar, later recovered from Tubingen and stored. The way of weaving to Tübingen is not released.

Restitution March 2019

Status

restituted

Published since

30.06.2011