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Curator · Cataloguer · Scholar

Sylvia Brehme

fl. 2001–2013 · Germany

Curator of the Cypriote collection of the Antikensammlung in Berlin and lead author of the 2001 catalogue Ancient Cypriote Art in Berlin, in which she wrote on Max Ohnefalsch-Richter.

Biography

Sylvia Brehme is the first-named author of Ancient Cypriote Art in Berlin (2001), the catalogue of the Cypriote holdings of the Antikensammlung, the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte and the Münzkabinett, published by the A. G. Leventis Foundation with the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin1. A German edition, Antike Kunst aus Zypern, followed in 20022. Vassos Karageorghis wrote the pottery and terracottas, and Brehme the stone, metal and limestone sculpture of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte. D. W. Rupp, reviewing the book, calls her biography of Max Ohnefalsch-Richter "informative"5.

Rupp summarises her account of how the collection of over 1,200 Cypriote objects was formed. Objects came to Berlin from 1845 by purchase from Cyprus, through small German collections, by transfer from other German museums and from Ohnefalsch-Richter's excavations, especially at Tamassos. The collection was dispersed after the Second World War and reassembled after 19925. Hermary, in 2014, described her as curator of the Cypriote collection6.

Life and work

  1. 2001
    Co-author of Ancient Cypriote Art in Berlin (Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin): wrote the introductory history of the Antikensammlung's Cypriote collection and the biography of Max Ohnefalsch-Richter (pp. 23-26), and catalogued the stone objects, metalwork and limestone sculpture of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (per Rupp's review).

    Nicosia / BerlinRupp 2003Childs et al. 2012

  2. 2002
    German edition Antike Kunst aus Zypern (Berlin 2002), launched in April 2002 with an A. G. Leventis Foundation symposium in the Gropius Bau; Brehme contributed 'Die Sammlung zyprischer Altertümer in der Antikensammlung Berlin', pp. 11-13.

    BerlinKarageorghis 2002Recke 2018

  3. 8 May 2013
    Presented 'Zyprische Funde in der Antikensammlung - Ein Überblick zu ihrer Geschichte und den Fortschritten ihrer Erschliessung in den letzten Jahren' at the one-day conference 'Cypriote Antiquities in Berlin: In the Focus of New Research' (Cypriot-German Cultural Foundation with the Antikensammlung); the only paper given in German.

    BerlinMerrillees 2012Karageorghis et al. 2014

Connections

5 people
Vassos KarageorghisMax Ohnefalsch-RichterMelitta BrönnerBernhard WeisserGertrud Platz-HorsterSylvia Brehme
Scholarship

Scholarship

Sources

  1. 1.S. Brehme, M. Brönner, V. Karageorghis, G. Platz-Horster et al. (2001). Ancient Cypriote Art in Berlin: Antikensammlung, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Münzkabinett. A. G. Leventis Foundation, Nicosia; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
  2. 2.S. Brehme, M. Brönner, V. Karageorghis, G. Platz-Horster et al. (2002). Antike Kunst aus Zypern. Antikensammlung, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Münzkabinett. Berlin.
  3. 3.S. Brehme (2001). “Max Ohnefalsch-Richter (1850-1917)”. Ancient Cypriote Art in Berlin, 23-26.
  4. 4.S. Brehme (2002). “Die Sammlung zyprischer Altertümer in der Antikensammlung Berlin”. Antike Kunst aus Zypern, 11-13. Berlin.
  5. 5.David W. Rupp (2003). “Review of Brehme et al., Ancient Cypriote Art in Berlin (2001)”. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 330, 102-103. Online
  6. 6.V. Karageorghis (ed.), E. Poyiadji-Richter (ed.), S. Rogge (ed.) (2014). Cypriote Antiquities in Berlin in the Focus of New Research.
  7. 7.Robert Stuart Merrillees (2012). “'Cypriote Antiquities in Berlin. In the focus of new research': An Anniversary Conference in Berlin, 8 May 2013”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42, 3-4.
  8. 8.V. Karageorghis (2002). “Nouvelles archéologiques. Cypriote Antiquities in Foreign Museums”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 32, 3-4.
  9. 9.M. Recke (2018). Like Herrings in a Barrel: Max Ohnefalsch-Richter.
  10. 10.W. A. P. Childs (ed.), J. S. Smith (ed.), J. M. Padgett (ed.) (2012). City of Gold: The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus. Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum.
  11. 11. (2012). “Cypriote antiquities in German museums”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42.