Museum
Museum Schloss Wilhelmshöhe
Kassel, Germany
Museum in Kassel. 6 people in the register connected with it.
The Cypriot collection
4 stone sculptures, 61 ceramics (Early Cypriot to Cypro-Classical), 11 terracottas, 1 stone vessel and 2 spindle whorls (2012)
History
- 1899Cypriot antiquities came to the museum from the estate (Nachlass) of Ferdinand Dümmler, who had visited Cyprus in 1885; his purchases from the local art trade went to Kassel from his estate in 1899, while an earlier gift of 1896 went to the Berlin Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte.
- 1926Cypriot pieces acquired through the mediation of Seelig from the estate of Mühlmann. Recke notes that Dresden and Kassel only enlarged their Cypriot holdings again in 1926, after the break of the post-war inflation years.
- 1941Acquisition from the Paris art trade (Kunsthandel Paris); seller not named.
- 1955Acquisition of a piece said (angeblich) to come from Famagusta; seller not named.
- 1975CVA Kassel 3 (Kranz, Lullies, Munich) published; later catalogues: Yfantidis 1990 (Antike Gefässe) and Gercke and Yfantidis 1990 on the Liebeck gift, and Gercke and Zimmermann-Elseify 2007 (stone sculptures and modern copies).
- 1984Gift of Dr. Oskar Liebeck, Kassel (Schenkung Dr. Oskar Liebeck).
- 1994Acquisition from the Zurich art trade; seller not named.
- 2004–2005Loan from a private owner (Lg PB).
People
6 peopleStaff and members · 3
- Seeligother (1926–1926) · intermediary for 1926 acquisition (not an employee on this evidence) · acted for itRecke 2012, p. 1111926
- P. Kranzother (1975–1975)Recke 2012, p. 1111975
- K. Yfantidiscurator (1990–1990)Recke 2012, p. 1111990
Donors and lenders · 2
- Ferdinand Dümmlerdonor (1899–1899) · bequeathed objectsRecke 2012, p. 1111899
- Oskar Liebeckdonor (1984–1984) · gave objectsRecke 2012, p. 1111984
Sellers and consignors · 1
- Mühlmannseller (1926–1926)Recke 2012, p. 1111926
Sources
- 1.Matthias Recke (2012). “Deutschland und das antike Zypern. Beiträge zur Geschichte einer archäologischen Disziplin”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42.
- 2.P. Kranz, R. Lullies (1975). Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Kassel 3 (Deutschland 38). Munich.