Museum of Islamic Art (Berlin)
Mshatta facade in the Museum of Islamic Art |
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place | Berlin ( Pergamon Museum ) |
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opening | October 18, 1904 |
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The Museum of Islamic Art is located in the Pergamon Museum and is part of the Berlin State Museums .
collection
The museum exhibits diverse works of Islamic art from the 7th to 19th centuries from the area between Spain and India. The excavation activity in Ctesiphon , Samarra and Tabgha as well as the acquisition possibilities meant that Egypt , the Middle East and Iran in particular are important focal points. Other regions are represented by important collection objects or groups, such as B. the calligraphy and miniature painting from the Mughal Empire or the Sicilian works of art made of ivory .
Important collection items
Because of their size, their importance in art history and their popularity with museum visitors, the following should be mentioned in particular:
- Mshatta facade
- Aleppo room
- Dome from the Alhambra
- Mihrab from Kashan
- Mihrab from Konya
- Dragon - phoenix carpet, Asia Minor , early 15th century
- Koran folding desk , Asia Minor ( Konya ), 13th century
- Book art (changing exhibition in the book art cabinets)
In addition to the permanent exhibition, the museum also shows exhibitions of modern art from the Islamic world, in 2008 for example "Turkish Delight" (contemporary Turkish design) and "Naqsh" (gender and role models in Iran).
In 2009 the museum received a collection of Islamic art from the London collector Edmund de Unger (1918–2011), the so-called “Keir Collection”, on permanent loan . The collection, which has been amassed over more than 50 years, comprises around 1,500 works of art from 2,000 years and is one of the largest private collections of Islamic art. More than one hundred exhibits from the Keir Collection were first shown in the special exhibition in 2007/2008 . Islamic art from the Edmund de Unger collection presented to the public in the Pergamon Museum. Another special exhibition with parts of this loan took place from March 2010 as part of the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Islamic Art with the title Collector's Luck. Masterpieces of Islamic Art from the Keir Collection . In July 2012, the collaboration between the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Prussischer Kulturbesitz and the owners of the Edmund de Unger collection was terminated and the collection originally intended as a long-term loan was withdrawn. The reasons given were “different ideas about how to continue working with the collection”.
history
The museum was founded in 1904 by Wilhelm von Bode as an Islamic department in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum (today's Bode-Museum ) and initially set up by Friedrich Sarre as honorary director. The occasion was the donation of the facade of the Umayyad desert castle Mschatta by the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II to Kaiser Wilhelm II. Together with 21 carpets donated by Bode, the facade formed the basis of the collection. In the newly built Pergamon Museum, the museum moved to the upper floor of the south wing and was opened there in 1932. The exhibition was closed in 1939 because of the Second World War .
Despite the relocation of works of art and the securing of objects that remained in the Pergamon Museum, the collection suffered damage and losses. A bomb hit destroyed one of the gate towers of the Mshatta facade and an incendiary bomb completely or partially burned valuable carpets housed in a safe of the coin. In 1954 the collection was reopened as the Islamic Museum in the Pergamon Museum . The stocks relocated to the western occupation zones were returned to the museum in Dahlem, where they could also be exhibited again for the first time after the war in 1954. From 1968 to 1970 there was an exhibition in Charlottenburg Palace . In 1971 the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Islamic Art was opened in a new building in the Dahlem museum complex.
The Islamic Museum in the Pergamon Museum on Museum Island received in 1958 most of the 1945 to 1946 looted art in the Soviet Union back spent artworks. With the restoration of other important collection objects, it was possible until 1967 to make all exhibition rooms accessible to the public. On the basis of the Unification Treaty , the two museums were organizationally merged in 1992 under the name Museum für Islamische Kunst . The exhibition at the Dahlem location closed in 1998. A newly designed permanent exhibition was opened in 2000 on the upper floor of the south wing in the Pergamon Museum.
Directors
The history of the collection was largely shaped by the respective heads and directors, who at the same time influenced the development of Islamic art history in Germany.
Wilhelm von Bode | 1904-1921 | ||
Friedrich Sarre | 1921-1931 | ||
Ernst Kühnel | 1931-1951 | ||
Dahlem | Museum Island | ||
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Kurt Erdmann | 1958-1964 | Wolfgang Dudzus | 1959–1965 director of the Islamic Museum |
Klaus Brisch | 1966-1988 | Volkmar Enderlein | 1965–1971 acting head , 1971–1978 serving as director |
Michael Meinecke | 1988-1991 | 1978-1991 | |
Michael Meinecke | 1992-1995 | ||
Volkmar Enderlein | 1995-2001 | ||
Claus-Peter Haase | December 1, 2001–31. January 2009 | ||
Stefan Weber | since February 1, 2009 |
Exhibitions
Permanent exhibitions
- since 2000: Islamic cultures
- since 2016: Transcultural Relationships, Global Biographies - Islamic Art?
Special exhibitions
2013
- Samarra - center of the world
- Masterpieces from the Seraglio Paintings from the adhesive albums of Heinrich Friedrich von Diez
- Affordable for many. Printed fabrics from Egyptian tombs
- Decoration and tongue: book covers from the Islamic world
2014
- Enjoyment and intoxication. Wine, Tobacco, and Drugs in Indian Paintings
- Pride and passion. Representations of men in the Mughal period
- Focus on Mshatta. The Jordanian desert castle in historical photographs
2015
- Picnic in the park. Gardens in Islamic miniature painting
- Aatifi - News from Afghanistan
- How Islamic Art came to Berlin. The collector and museum director Friedrich Sarre
2016
- Mystical travelers: Sufis , ascetics and holy men
- Read words - feel words An introduction to the Koran in Berlin collections
- Contrast Syria. Photographs by Mohamad Al Roumi
- The legacy of the ancient kings. Ctesiphon and the Persian Sources of Islamic Art
2017
- Iran. Departure into the modern age
- Faithful Amazement - Biblical Traditions in the Islamic World
- Comfortable: carpets in Indian miniature paintings
2018
- Perched | Stopover. An installation by Felekşan Onar
- Copy and mastery
- The gallery in the book. Islamic scrapbooks
- Tape Art
- With a sense of proportion. Architectural masterpieces in Yemen
Research and education projects
Exhibition mediation
- Fellowship International Museum of the Federal Cultural Foundation
- Objects of transfer
- Cultural stories from the Museum of Islamic Arts
- Multaka: Museum meeting point - refugees as guides in Berlin museums
Research abroad
- Areia Antiqua. The old Herat / 3 projects
- Creation of digital cultural property registers for Syria
- Iran: The Provincial Museum Yazd / National Museum Tehran
- Qasr al-Mshatta: The early Islamic desert castle Mshatta, Jordan
- Reconstruction of an old cultural landscape in Baluchistan, Pakistan
- The Citadel of Aleppo, Syria
Cultural and political education
- Preventing extremism and opening up museum educational access for Muslim multipliers
- Common past - common future
- TAMAM - The educational project of mosque communities with the Museum of Islamic Art
Collection related research
- Khurasan - land of the sunrise
- Ctesiphon
- Samarra and the Abbasid Art
- The Yousef Jameel digitization project
literature
- Museum for Islamic Art (Ed.): Museum for Islamic Art . von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein 2001, ISBN 3-8053-2681-5 .
- State Museums of Berlin Prussian Cultural Property: Museum of Islamic Art . von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein 2003, ISBN 3-8053-3261-0 .
- Jens Kröger , Desirée Heiden (Hrsg.): Islamic art in Berlin collections. 100 years of the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin . Parthas, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86601-435-X .
- Jens Kröger: The Berlin Museum for Islamic Art as a research institution for Islamic art in the 20th century . (PDF; 692 kB). In: XXX. German Orientalist Day, Freiburg, 24. – 28. September 2007. Selected lectures, published on behalf of DMG by Rainer Brunner, Jens Peter Laut and Maurus Reinkowski. 2009. ISSN 1866-2943
- Stefan Weber : Between late antiquity and modernity: On the redesign of the Museum of Islamic Art in the Pergamon Museum . In: Jahrbuch Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Volume XLVIII (2014), pp. 226–257.
- Stefan Weber: About us and the others: Museums and cultural education in the Islamic debate . In: Jahrbuch Preußischer Kulturbesitz XLIX (2015), pp. 88–109.
- Stefan Weber: Everyone can love Aleppo . In: National Geographic, November (2016), pp. 28–32 (Syrian Heritage Archive Project)
- Stefan Weber: Fight for and against cultural assets in the Middle East - The case study Syria . In: BMVg.de: The Reader Security Policy, August (2016), pp. 1–12 (Syrian Heritage Archive Project)
- Stefan Weber :: Multaka: museum as meeting point. Refugees as guides in Berlin museums / Multaka: il museo come punto di incontro. I rifugiati come guide nei musei berlinesi . In: Archeology & ME, Looking at archeology in contemmpory Europe / Pensare l'archeologia nell'Europa contemporana. Bologna (2016), pp. 142–45.
Web links
- Literature from and about the Museum of Islamic Art in the catalog of the German National Library
- Museum of Islamic Art (Berlin State Museums)
- Museum of Islamic Art in the German Digital Library
- Museum of Islamic Art at Discover Islamic Art
- Friends of the Museum of Islamic Art in the Pergamon Museum eV
Individual evidence
- ↑ samarrafinds.info: The archaeological finds from Samarra in Iraq
- ↑ The dome was brought to Berlin by Arthur von Gwinner in 1891 and handed over to the museum by his heirs in 1978. Jens Kröger: Alhambra dome (2012). Museum With No Frontiers - Discover Islamic Art .
- ↑ Anna McSweeney: 'Arthur von Gwinner and the Alhambra Dome' in Julia Gonnella and Jens Kröger (eds) How Islamic Art Came to Berlin. The collector and museum director Friedrich Sarre (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH, 2015), 89-102.
- ↑ Alhambra dome . German digital library
- ↑ Extensive permanent loan from the Edmund de Ungers collection
- ↑ Press release of July 13, 2012. ( Memento of the original of September 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. State museums in Berlin - Prussian cultural heritage
- ↑ Jens Kröger: The Berlin Museum for Islamic Art as a research institution for Islamic art in the 20th century ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 692 kB). In: XXX. German Orientalist Day, Freiburg, 24. – 28. September 2007. Selected lectures, edited on behalf of DMG by Rainer Brunner, Jens Peter Laut and Maurus Reinkowski, 2009, p. 10.
- ^ National Museums in Berlin: Museum of Islamic Art: Detail. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
- ^ National Museums in Berlin: Museum for Islamic Art: SMB Exhibition: Transcultural Relationships, Global Biographies - Islamic Art? - Transcultural relations, global object biographies, Islamic art, exhibition course. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
- ^ National Museums in Berlin: National Museums in Berlin: Museums & Facilities - Museum of Islamic Art - Exhibitions - Archive. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
- ^ National Museums in Berlin: National Museums in Berlin: Museums & Facilities - Museum of Islamic Art - Exhibitions - Archive. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
- ^ National Museums in Berlin: National Museums in Berlin: Museums & Facilities - Museum of Islamic Art - Exhibitions - Archive. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
- ^ National Museums in Berlin: National Museums in Berlin: Museums & Facilities - Museum of Islamic Art - Exhibitions - Archive. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
- ^ National Museums in Berlin: National Museums in Berlin: Museums & Facilities - Museum of Islamic Art - Exhibitions - Archive. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
- ^ National Museums in Berlin: National Museums in Berlin: Museums & Facilities - Museum of Islamic Art - Exhibitions - Archive. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
- ^ National Museums in Berlin: National Museums in Berlin: Museums & Institutions - Museum of Islamic Art - Collecting & Research - Research & Cooperation. Retrieved July 26, 2018 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '15 " N , 13 ° 23' 47" E