Anna Mautner and the Volkskundemuseum Wien after 1945There are no indications that Anna Mautner made any claim after1945 for restitution of the Mautner collection. Why she failed to doso is a matter of speculation. It is possible that she no longer hadthe resources, as it had been difficult enough to recover her businessand real property.In 1948, Anna Mautner and her daughter Anna Maria Wolseyre-established their company Grundlseer Handdrucke. With itshead office once again established in Vienna, it produced textiles fordirndls and other folkloristic clothing, cloths, tableware, bedding andcurtains. She often borrowed printing blocks from the Volkskunde-museum. The business was wound up in 1954. A textile printing workscalled Mautner Drucke, based in Bad Aussee,uses the unprotectedfamily name as part of their brand to this day.The Volkskundemuseum Wien collected products made by AnnaMautner and acknowledged the research activities of her husband,Konrad. Objects from the Mautner collection have been shown inmany exhibitions and included in a number of publications. At notime was any mention made of the circumstances under which themuseum acquired the collection or of the persecution and expulsionof Konrad’s family.KP162