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Norbert Schimmel

1904–1990 · United States, Germany

Art collector.

Life and work

  1. 2 September 1904
    Born in Berlin.

    BerlinWikidata

  2. 16 February 1990
    Died at Longboat Key.

    Longboat KeyWikidata

Objects

  • Large horse-bird askos, Late Geometric, 42.3 cm long, 33.5 cm high, last quarter of 8th c. BC; 'usually explained as a Western Euboean product'. Not Cypriot, but in his collection.

    Horse-bird Askoi from Carthage:…, p. 8

  • Gold bracelet ('the Schimmel bracelet', Greek, later 4th c. BC), compared with a Cypriot gold-foil version in Berlin; catalogued in Norbert Schimmel Collection (ed. H. Hoffmann).

    Greek gold jewelry from…, p. 179

Also named in

Sources

  1. 1.Carlos A. Picón, Joan R. Mertens, Elizabeth J. Milleker, Christopher S. Lightfoot et al. (2007). Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome. New York; New Haven and London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press.
  2. 2.P. Harper et al. (1971). “Origin and Influence: Cultural Contacts: Egypt, the Ancient Near East, and the Classical World”.
  3. 3.“The New Cypriot Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum”.
  4. 4.“Horse-bird Askoi from Carthage: a case study”.
  5. 5.Greek gold jewelry from the age of Alexander.
  6. 6.Wikidata. Norbert Schimmel (Q94886501). Online