Museum

Skulpturensammlung Dresden

Dresden, Germany

Museum in Dresden; part of Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. 5 people in the register connected with it.

The Cypriot collection

Recke's 2012 German survey lists 1 stone object, 35 ceramic vessels and 10 terracottas (war losses in the Second World War noted); provenance by Ohnefalsch-Richter 1891 and, from 1976, the Curt Luckow collection (2012)

Recke 2012, p. 108

History

  1. 1891
    P. Herrmann, 'Erwerbungen der Antikensammlungen in Deutschland, Dresden 1891' (Archäologischer Anzeiger 1894, 23-36), listed as the early publication of the holding.

    Paul HerrmannRecke 2012, p. 108

  2. 1906
    Recke notes a purchase of Cypriot pieces from the Cairo art trade 'für Dresden' (1906) as an instance of public art museums buying from Athens, Smyrna and Cairo dealers; the museum within Dresden is not named in that sentence.

    CairoRecke 2012, p. 96

  3. 1910
    The Stuttgart industrialist Ernst von Sieglin gave several Cypriot vases and terracottas to Dresden.

    Ernst von SieglinRecke 2012, p. 97

  4. 1926
    After the inflation-era break, the Dresden and Kassel museums enlarged their Cypriot holdings again only in 1926.

    Recke 2012, p. 98

  5. 1976
    Pieces from the Curt Luckow collection (cf. Neugebauer, Antiken in deutschem Privatbesitz, Berlin 1938) entered the collection.

    Curt LuckowRecke 2012, p. 108

  6. 1996–1997
    K. Knoll, 'Die zyprischen Gefäße der Dresdner Skulpturensammlung', Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, pp. 11-29, the publication of the Cypriot vessels.

    Recke 2012, p. 108

People

5 people

Staff and members · 3

Donors and lenders · 1

Sellers and consignors · 1

Sources

  1. 1.Matthias Recke (2012). “Deutschland und das antike Zypern. Beiträge zur Geschichte einer archäologischen Disziplin”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42.
  2. 2.O. Masson (1985). “Les visites de Max Ohnefalsch-Richter à Kouklia (Ancienne-Paphos), 1890 et 1910”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 3, 19-28. Online