Ümit Bir

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Ümit Bir (born June 27, 1929 in Freiburg ; † June 28, 2014 in Flechtorf ) was a Turkish-German doctor and art collector.

Live and act

Ümit Bir grew up as the son of a Turkish father and a German mother in Izmir and Istanbul . After studying medicine in Istanbul, he worked as a doctor at the Charlottenburg Clinic in Berlin and from 1958 at a clinic for obstetrics in Wolfsburg . He later ran his own practice for gynecology and obstetrics in Wolfsburg .

Bir was a passionate collector of oriental jewelry, which he began on the occasion of a North East Africa trip in 1960. Over time, another 180 trips through Europe and countries in the Orient followed. The exhibits in his collection include, in particular, jewelry, as well as manuscripts, vessels, textiles, ceremonial weapons, etc.

The "Dr. With over 4,000 exhibits, Bir "is one of the world's largest private collections of oriental jewelry that has been preserved as a whole. Bir's extensive estate is looked after by the Dr. Bir Collection and is open to the public in the Grassi Museum in cooperation with the Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig made accessible.

Exhibitions

  • 1969: Jewelry from Islamic countries . Exhibition in the Griesebach cabinet in Heidelberg
  • 1969: Jewelry from Islamic countries. Exhibition (with catalog) in Wolfsburg Castle
  • 1971: Sieraden uit Islamitische Landen. Exhibition in the Tropenmuseum Amsterdam
  • 1974: Jewelry from Islamic countries and neighboring areas . Exhibition (with catalog) in the Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau
  • 1975: jewelry from Asia. From the Caucasus to the Himalayas . Exhibition (with catalog) in the BAT House in Hamburg
  • 1982: Sieraden uit de wereld van de islam. Exhibition in the Tropenmuseum Amsterdam
  • 1986: Traditional silver jewelry of the Islamic world. Special exhibition (with catalog) in the Kestner Museum Hannover
  • 1988: Jewelry of the Islamic World . Exhibition at the Mayer Memorial Museum in Jerusalem
  • 1995: Treasures of oriental bazaars. Jewelry from a private collection in Lower Saxony , exhibition (with catalog) in the Museum für Völkerkunde in Leipzig
  • 2001: The legacy of antiquity. Exhibition (with catalog) in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum
  • 2004: Messages of Beauty. Traditional folk jewelry between Orient and Occident . Exhibition in the Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig (Interim)
  • 2019: Fatherland meets motherland. Exhibition in the gallery at Nikolaikirchhof in Leipzig

There are also presentations in the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Frankfurt / M. (1988), in the Völkerkundemuseum Berlin (1992), in the Überseemuseum Bremen (1992), in the Goldschmiedehaus Hanau (2009) and others

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Foundation Collection Dr. Bir: Dr. Ümit Bir. Retrieved August 17, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b exhibition "Fatherland meets Motherland". In: Center for European and Oriental Culture ZEOK e. V. June 15, 2019, accessed on August 18, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Seiwert: Jewelry from the Orient. Treasures from the Bir collection . Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-89790-318-0 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e documentation of the collector
  5. ↑ a b c d e Overview of exhibitions. Retrieved August 18, 2020 .
  6. ↑ s. Leaflet Museum für Völkerkunde Leipzig, April 2004
  7. ^ Exhibition "Fatherland meets Motherland". Retrieved August 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bir, Ümit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-German doctor and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 2014
Place of death Flechtorf