For a Führer Museum that was to be built in Linz, the "Sonderauftrag Linz" (Special Commission Linz) was created as a separate organisation to collect special works of art for the museum. Comparatively late, the "Sonderauftrag Linz" secured access to art and cultural assets looted by the Nazi financial administration. Only a few files have survived that document the active selection of objects for the museum collection by the Vermögensverwertungsstelle.

One of the few documents containing an instruction relating to the "Sonderauftrag Linz" has been preserved in the Vermögensverwertungsstelle’s holdings. The file on Frieda Bradt contains a copy of a letter from the Reichminister der Finanzen (Reich Minister of Finance) dated July 1943. In it, he informs all Oberfinanzpräsidenten(Senior Finance President) Until 1937, Landesfinanzämter (regional finance offices). OFPs were the highest regional authorities responsible for the Reich’s financial administration. From the end of 1941, they were tasked with planning and carrying out the theft of property from deported Jews. More of the priority status of the Sonderauftrag. In addition to works of art and art collections, coin and medal collections now also fell under the what was known as the FührervorbehaltThe „Sonderauftrag Linz“ (Special Commission Linz) Adolf Hitler’s project to collect art for a planned “Führermuseum” (Museum for the Führer) in Linz. More (Führer prerogative).

In most cases, the artworks ended up with the Sonderauftrag through other channels, such as official auctions or the art market. One example is the case of the still life by Ludwig Adam Kunz from the estate of Paul Jakob Eisner.

The art dealer Maria Almas-Dietrich acquired the still life in May 1941 at the forced auction held by Hans W. Lange. She then sold the painting on to the Führer Museum, as can be seen from the index card kept at the Central Collecting PointCollection points set up by the US armed forces after 1945 in the western occupation zones, where works of art from discovered depots containing looted art were registered, documented, and preserved. More in Munich in 1945.