In 2008, Austria's Green Party and the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (IKG) publicly accused the museum of "holding art that was stolen by Nazis from Jewish owners" alleging that Houses on the Lake, 1914, by Egon Schiele, had been "stolen by the Nazis from Jewish owner Jenny Steiner".
In 2008, Austria's Green Party and the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (IKG) publicly criticized the museum for allegedly holding art that was seized by the Nazis from Jewish owners, specifically pointing to Houses on the Lake, 1914, by Egon Schiele, as an example of such confiscated property.