Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Berlin

an 'umfangreicher Bestand' of stone sculpture, ceramics (Early Cypriot to Cypro-Classical) and terracottas; the Leipzig Weisbach/Ohnefalsch-Richter collection, originally about 1,800 objects, has been in the museum since 1992. Recke gives no total object count for the museum itself. (2012)

Recke 2012, p. 107

1. 1896
   Ferdinand Dümmler gives pottery from Agia Paraskevi in the Karpas to the museum.

   Agia Paraskevi (Karpassia)Ferdinand DümmlerRecke 2012, p. 107

2. 1896
   The Berlin banker Valentin Weisbach buys Max Ohnefalsch-Richter's whole private collection. Recke notes that this sale ended the supply of large lots from Cyprus to German buyers.

   Valentin WeisbachMax Ohnefalsch-RichterRecke 2012, p. 100

3. 1898
   Weisbach gives his Cypriot collection to the Museum für Völkerkunde in Leipzig, at Ohnefalsch-Richter's urging. This is the collection that reaches the Berlin museum in 1992.

   LeipzigValentin WeisbachMax Ohnefalsch-RichterRecke 2012, p. 95Recke 2012, p. 111

4. 1930–1936
   Purchases in 1930, 1931 and 1936 from Koutsantonos of Lefkara.

   LefkaraMichael KantsantonosRecke 2012, p. 107

5. 1939–1945
   The older holdings are largely lost in the Second World War ('im 2. Weltkrieg weitgehend verloren').

   Recke 2012, p. 107

6. December 1943
   Bombing of the Leipzig museum destroys the bronze, lead, glass, gems and jewellery of the Weisbach/Ohnefalsch-Richter collection (Rupp's wording for the review of the 2001 catalogue).

   LeipzigRupp 2003, p. 103

7. 1967
   Gift from the Department of Antiquities, Nicosia.

   Recke 2012, p. 107

8. 1976
   Material from the Scheye collection enters the museum.

   ScheyeRecke 2012, p. 107

9. 1987–1988
   The East Berlin Museum für Deutsche Geschichte shows 'Zyprische Altertümer' in several Polish cities, mostly pieces of the Weisbach/Ohnefalsch-Richter collection; the further Eastern Bloc venues planned were dropped, and it was seen in Bad Frankenhausen.

   PolandRecke 2012, p. 101

10. 1992
    The collection of the Museum für Deutsche Geschichte (ex-Leipzig Völkerkunde) is taken over by the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte.

    Recke 2012, p. 107Recke 2012, p. 111

11. 2001
    Ancient Cypriote Art in Berlin (Brehme, Brönner, Karageorghis, Platz-Horster, Weisser) covers the Antikensammlung, this museum and the Münzkabinett; Brehme catalogues the stone objects, metalwork and limestone sculpture of this museum, and Brönner writes on its history. 216 objects, 45 of them limestone sculpture.

    Sylvia BrehmeMelitta BrönnerVassos KarageorghisRupp 2003, p. 103

12. 2004–2005
    Brönner, 'Die Sammlung zyprischer Altertümer Ohnefalsch-Richter/Weisbach', APA 36/37.

    Melitta BrönnerRecke 2012, p. 107

13. 2009
    Opening of the permanent exhibition in the Neues Museum: 335 m2 showing the Cypriot collections of the Antikensammlung and this museum together.

    Neues Museum, BerlinRecke 2012, p. 102

• Bichrome IV free-field jug with a man sniffing a lotus

  MVF XI b 3713 [74/655]from Athienouvia Eustathios ConstantinidesMerrillees 2017, p. 27

• Pottery (Agia Paraskevi, Karpassia)

  from Agia Paraskevi (Karpassia)via Ferdinand Dümmler1896Recke 2012, p. 107