Citizen Worlds
Bürgerwelten (in the long version Bürgerwelten. Hellenistic clay figures and replicas in the 19th century ) was a special exhibition of archaeological art shown in Berlin in 1994 .
The exhibition of the Berlin Collection of Antiquities, conceived and carried out by Gerhard Zimmer and Irmgard Kriseleit , was shown from January 29 to April 30, 1994 in the then branch in Berlin-Charlottenburg . Citizens worlds presented Tanagra figurines (after the Greek town of Tanagra named terracotta figures ) and copies of Tanagra figurines from the 19th century. From December 6, 1995 to February 25, 1996, the exhibition, organized by the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Berlin and the Archaeological Institute of the University of Freiburg , was also shown in the University Library in Freiburg.
For the first time, the exhibition showed a comparison of the originals and the forgeries of the collection of ancient art, which was spread over East and West Berlin after the Second World War . After the reunification, a close cooperation was initially decided. The Bürgerwelten exhibition was one of the first results of this collaboration. Thanks to new scientific methods, the Rathgen research laboratory for TL analysis was able to carry out an unequivocal separation of the forged works from the 19th century from the real works from antiquity in a series of collections that were still separate at that time. The exhibition continued more than a century of research into ancient terracottas in the Berlin Collection of Antiquities.
literature
- Irmgard Kriseleit , Gerhard Zimmer , J. Cordelia Eule: bourgeois worlds, Hellenistic clay figures and replicas in the 19th century . Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen Berlin, von Zabern, Main 1994. ISBN 3-8053-1639-9 .