Museum director · Museum buyer
Geheimrat (Hofrat) Dr. E. Wagner
fl. 1887–1893 · Germany
German museum director and museum buyer, active 1887–1893. Worked at Karlsruhe. Bought from Adolf Furtwängler and Max Ohnefalsch-Richter.
Life and work
- 1887Furtwängler offered Wagner part of the 'over 600 pieces from an old Aphrodite sanctuary near Dali' excavated by Ohnefalsch-Richter, because the whole was too much for Berlin (letters 15 Feb to 1 Jul 1887). Buchholz, citing Schürmann 1984, says Karlsruhe bought 151 pieces.
KarlsruheBuchholz 1989
- 1891Ohnefalsch-Richter, on a selling and lecture tour, wrote to 'Museumsdirektor Wagner' in Karlsruhe on 30 Jan (Düsseldorf), 30 Mar (Halle), 11 and 13 Apr (Berlin); the Baden ministry issued an acquisition order dated 3 April 1891 (Nr. 6135, 'Erwerbungen für die Gr. Alterthumshalle').
KarlsruheBuchholz 1989
- 1893Ohnefalsch-Richter thanks the Grand Ducal Museum at Karlsruhe and its director Herr Hofrath Dr. Wagner for illustrations and descriptions for Kypros, the Bible and Homer.
KarlsruheOhnefalsch-Richter 1893, p. viii
Connections
2 peopleSales, gifts & bequests
- Bought from Adolf Furtwängler1887
- Bought from Max Ohnefalsch-Richter1887–1891
Colleagues & contacts
- Worked with Max Ohnefalsch-Richter1893
Objects
151 pieces from the Aphrodite/Astarte sanctuary at Dali (Idalion), excavated by Ohnefalsch-Richter 1885
From Dali (Idalion)Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe1887Buchholz 1989Recke 2012
further Cypriot antiquities bought from Ohnefalsch-Richter (some from Hagia Paraskevi, e.g. a clay stag head)
From variousBadisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe1891Buchholz 1989Recke 2012
Sources
- 1.H.-G. Buchholz (1989). “Max Ohnefalsch-Richter als Archäologe auf Zypern”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 11-12, 3-27.
- 2.Max Ohnefalsch-Richter (1893). Kypros, the Bible and Homer. London, Asher & Co.. Online
- 3.Matthias Recke (2012). “Deutschland und das antike Zypern. Beiträge zur Geschichte einer archäologischen Disziplin”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42.