Beatrix of Ragué

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Beatrix von Ragué (born July 16, 1920 in Barmen ; died January 22, 2006 in Bonn ) was a German art scholar and director of the Museum for East Asian Art (now part of the Museum for Asian Art ) in Berlin.

Live and act

Emperor Kangxi's travel throne ensemble
"Dragon and Tiger"

Beatrix von Ragué began studying library sciences in 1939 at the Deutsche Bücherei in Leipzig, which she completed in 1941 at the Berlin State Library . In 1943 she began studying art history at the University of Bonn and then in Freiburg, which she was unable to continue due to the war. After the Second World War , von Ragué continued her studies in Bonn and received her doctorate in 1950 with Herbert von Eine with the dissertation “The relationship between art and Christianity with Philipp Otto Runge ”.

From 1959 to 1961 von Ragué continued his education in Japan on a grant from the Japanese government. After her return in 1962 she became a research assistant with Roger Goepper at the Museum for East Asian Art in Berlin. The holdings of the museum on Jebensstrasse had shrunk to a few hundred objects as a result of the raid by the Russian army in 1945. When Goepper went to Cologne in 1965 to take over the Museum of East Asian Art , von Ragué became director in Berlin in 1966.

In 1967 von Ragué was able to take over the collection of Japanese and Chinese graphics in the art library. This is how the art historian Steffi Schmidt , whom she knew from earlier, came to the museum from there. With the completion of the new museum complex in Dahlem in 1971, it was finally possible to move into representative rooms. Ragué's focus was also on the library, which she expanded into one of the best specialist libraries in Germany.

During her tenure, Frau von Ragué succeeded in adding significant new acquisitions to the collection. One example is the traveling throne ensemble of Emperor Kangxi (1654–1722), another is the footstool decorated with red carved lacquer from the time of Emperor Yongle , who ruled from 1403 to 1424. An example of the expansion of the Japanese inventory is the pair of hanging scrolls "Dragon and Tiger", created by Oguri Sōritsu.

In 1983 Ragué was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. In 1985 she retired.

Publications (selection)

  • Side lights on Japan . Kiefel, Wuppertal-Barmen 1964.
  • History of Japanese lacquer art . De Gruyter, Berlin 1967, ISBN 978-3-11-083514-4 .
  • Selected works of East Asian art. State Museums Preuss. Cultural heritage, Museum of East Asian Art . 3rd, exp. u. rework. Edition. Berlin 1977.
  • A Chinese imperial throne - The peaches of immortality (= picture books of the State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage - Berlin issue 40/41). Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-7861-1371-8

literature

  • Willibald Veit : Prof. Dr. Beatrix of Ragué. On the death of the former director of the Museum for East Asian Art in Berlin . In: East Asian Journal . New series 11, 2006, p. 62.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Shown in "Nihon bijutsu gahō" (日本 美術 画報) 1899.
  2. ↑ The pair of hanging scrolls by Oguri Sōritsu (小 栗 宗 栗) comes from the collection of the rich entrepreneur family Konoike Zenemon (鴻 池 善 右衛門), who worked from the beginning of the Edo period to the beginning of the Meiji period .

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personal data
SURNAME Ragué, Beatrix of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 2006
Place of death Bonn