Daetz Center

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Daetz-Center Lichtenstein

The Daetz Center in the Lichtenstein Palace Palace , as an international competence center for wood carving, houses a collection of sculptures from more than 30 countries. The establishment owes its name to the founding couple Marlene and Peter Daetz.

Founded in 2001, the permanent exhibition Masterworks in Wood presented here shows over 550 sculptures from five continents and uses the medium of wood to convey knowledge about the various arts and crafts traditions around the world. The focus of the collection is on oceanic art, art of the Makonde , West Africa and Morocco, works by European wood sculptors, especially from South Tyrol , Indian art of the Hopi , Eskimos and the West Coast tribes as well as Asian works, especially from China, Indonesia, India and Thailand. Changing special exhibitions are devoted to various aspects of international cultures and in particular to modern wood carving from Germany and the world (e.g. annual ethnological Christmas exhibition Other countries, other nativity scenes ). Regular training programs and workshops as well as symposia complete the spectrum of the competence center.

The Daetz-Centrum Lichtenstein has been operated by the City of Lichtenstein since July 1, 2014. A model of the Daetz-Centrum Lichtenstein has been in existence in Germany's oldest miniature park, the Klein-Erzgebirge in Oederan, since 2009 . According to the Daetz Foundation, the Daetz Center has had more than half a million visitors since it opened.

The permanent exhibition of the Daetz-Centrum has been closed since the beginning of 2018 until further notice. Special exhibitions can still be visited during reduced opening hours.

There is a virtual 3D tour through the now closed permanent exhibition. Beginning in the palace gardens, the visitor can enter virtually all of the exhibition rooms. Numerous objects can also be viewed from all sides in separate windows. Audio guides complement the digital offer.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unique world exhibition. Daetz Foundation, accessed on June 21, 2020 .
  2. ↑ mdr.de: Exhibition in the Daetz-Centrum closes | MDR.DE . ( mdr.de [accessed on November 10, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Daetz-Centrum: Closed, but accessible | Free press - culture. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 30.9 "  N , 12 ° 38 ′ 13.1"  E