The Palace of the Tartar Khans in the Crimea

The palace of the Tatar Khans in the Crimea residential model

" The Palace of the Tartar-Chane in the Crimea ", created in 1846 by the painter Wilhelm Kiesewetter , is the model of the Crimean Palace with dimensions of 30 × 133 × 103 cm.

Wilhelm Kiesewetter has made a name for himself through the documentation of his travel stations, where he rolled up the canvases and transported the wooden models in suitcases.

The elaborate model of the Crimean Palace is one of the few surviving models that is in the archive of the Museum of European Cultures , where it has also been restored.

Individual evidence

^ Kiesewetter's ethnographic travel pictures, edited by Elisabeth Tietmeyer , Bomann-Museum Celle 2004, ISBN 3-925902-53-8
^ The painter and ethnographer Wilhelm Kiesewetter (1811–1865) in the Crimea, edited by Barbara Kaulbach and Elisabeth Tietmeyer, Goethe-Institut Kiew 2005, ISBN 966-8680-06-5 , pp. 25-29
↑ Kiesewetter's ethnographic travel pictures, Berlin 1854, p. 28, with foreword Alexander von Humboldt x 93/945

[1] Kiesewetter's ethnographic travel pictures, edited by Elisabeth Tietmeyer , Bomann-Museum Celle 2004, ISBN 3-925902-53-8

[2] The painter and ethnographer Wilhelm Kiesewetter (1811–1865) in the Crimea, edited by Barbara Kaulbach and Elisabeth Tietmeyer, Goethe-Institut Kiew 2005, ISBN 966-8680-06-5 , pp. 25-29

[3] Kiesewetter's ethnographic travel pictures, Berlin 1854, p. 28, with foreword Alexander von Humboldt x 93/945