Karl Mayländer

Mayländer acquired the work of many young Austrian artists, including many drawings by Egon Schiele whom he knew personally.

In 2010, an Austrian commission set up by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts, Education, and Culture investigated the ownership history, or provenance, of five paintings by Egon Schiele: "Girl with Sunglasses", "Portrait of Olga Gallus", "Proletrairan Children", "Portrait of Heinrich Benesch", and 'Portrait of a boy" and recommended that the paintings be restituted to Mayländer's heirs.

[6][7][8][9] In 2020, Zirkl, then 98 years old, sued the estate of Robert (Robin) Lehman for Portrait of the Artist's Wife" by Egon Schiele, which had belonged to Mayländer before he was deported and killed.

[10][11] Books were also looted from Mayländer and in 2017 the British Library restituted a copy of a German play that it realized had belonged to him.

[12] List of claims for restitution for Nazi looted art The Holocaust in Austria Media related to Karl Mayländer at Wikimedia Commons