Gisela Helmecke

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Gisela Helmecke (* 1951 in Plauen ) is a German art historian and was custodian of textiles and ceramics at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin .

Life

Gisela Helmecke graduated from high school in Hoyerswerda . She then studied art at the Humboldt University in Berlin with Peter H. Feist , Albrecht Dohmann and Harald Olbrich as well as Arabic with Heinrich Simon and Gottfried Werner and received her diploma in 1975 with a thesis on Jawad Salim .

In September 1975 she began working as a research assistant at the Islamic Museum , where she was primarily responsible for textiles (except carpets), ceramics and epigraphy .

She is a member of the Ernst Herzfeld Society for Research into Islamic Art and Archeology.

Services

A special focus of Gisela Helmecke's work is the preoccupation with Islamic textile art and ceramics. She published important objects from the material collection of the Museum of Islamic Art and also researched the excavation finds from Miletus and Tabgha that are in the museum. In addition to the scope of the Berlin collections, she often worked on pieces from other museums and collections.

For many exhibitions she also took on the scientific processing of other materials, such as for the exhibitions “Palestinian Folk Art” (1978) and “The Amazement of the World. Das Morgenland and Friedrich II. (1194-1250) ” (1994-1995). Above all, metal art and jewelry were among her fields of work, as shown, among other things, the publication of an astrolabe and glass and silver jewelry. The exhibition "Astrolabe and zodiac plate: Astronomical and astrological from the Orient" organized by Gisela Helmecke in 1997 won over international experts with its cross-material conception, so that the subject was then taken up in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre .

The history of science is also one of her research areas. So she worked on the main part of the exhibition "Friedrich Sarre - Collector, Traveler, Scholar" , which took place in 1985 on the 120th birthday of Friedrich Sarre and which marks the beginning of research on the history of science at the Islamic Museum in Berlin.

With her extensive knowledge of the collection objects and the history of the museum, Gisela Helmecke was able to make a significant contribution to the consolidation of the collections of the Museum of Islamic Art from 1992 and to the redesign of the permanent exhibition (2001). The fact that her numerous works were recognized by international experts is evident from the fact that she was invited to collaborate on several reference works, including the General Artist Lexicon and the Lexicon of Art ( EA Seemann ).

Gisela Helmecke carried out exercises on Islamic ceramics at the Free University of Berlin in the 1990s.

Fonts (selection)

  • Jawad Salim - a co-founder of modern Iraqi art . Diploma thesis, submitted to the Humboldt University of Berlin, Section Aesthetics and Art History, Section Art History on June 30, 1975 (unpublished).
  • The "Bukhara" embroidery in the Islamic Museum in Berlin . In: Research and Reports , Vol. 23 (1983), pp. 118-129
  • The Berlin astrolabe of Muḥammad Zamān al-Mašhadī . In: Research and Reports , Vol. 25 (1985), pp. 129-142, T31-T32
  • A dated and signed Kerman embroidery in the Islamic Museum (with Kerstin Flemming). In: Research and Reports , Vol. 29, (1990), pp. 149-166
  • Rich in velvet and silk. Ottoman fabrics and embroidery (with Reingard Neumann ). Hamburg and Bremen, 1993.
  • Byzantine and oriental silk fabrics: grave finds from the Sepultur of the Bamberg canons . Diözesanmuseum Bamberg 2001, ISBN 3-931432-05-X
  • Textiles with Arabic inscriptions excavated in Naqlun 1999-2003 (PDF; 806 kB). In: Polish Archeology in the Mediterranean , XVI, Reports 2004, Warsaw 2005, ISSN  1234-5415 , pp. 195-202
  • Article Cosmetics and Tus . In: Josef W. Meri, Jere L. Bacharach: Medieval Islamic civilization: an encyclopedia . New York: Routledge, 2006. (Routledge encyclopedias of the Middle Ages; 13), ISBN 978-0-415-96690-0 , pp. 177, 838f.
  • Turkish 'Terra Sigillata' Vessels from the 16th to 17th Century and Their Counterparts in Europe and the New World (with Karin Rührdanz ). In: Thirteenth International Congress of Turkish Art (eds. Géza Dávid, Ibolya Gerelyes), Budapest: Hungarian National Museum, 2009, pp. 309–322.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kröger 2009, p. 60.
  2. ↑ see Jawad Saleem
  3. ^ List of members of the Ernst Herzfeld Society ( memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Kröger 2009, p. 20
  5. ↑ Transfers from the Miletus excavation of the Royal Museums . In: Jens Kröger , Desirée Heiden (Ed.): Islamic Art in Berlin Collections. 100 years of the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin . Parthas: Berlin 2004. ISBN 3-86601-435-X , pp. 160-162.
  6. ^ The excavations in Tabgha / Chirbat al-Minya 1936-1939 . In: Islamic Art in Berlin Collections . Edited by J. Kröger and D. Heiden, Berlin 2004, pp. 150–155.
  7. ↑ Kröger 2009, p. 21f.
  8. ↑ a b A collection of Palestinian amulets and jewelry . In: Treatises and reports of the Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden , Vol. 45, 1990, pp. 99–122.
  9. ↑ Tissue from the Tulunid to Mamluk period in the Leipzig Museum of Applied Arts . In: Burchard Brentjes et al. (Ed.): Islamic art in museums and collections of the GDR . Halle Contributions to Orient Studies 15, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Scientific Contributions 1990/25 (I 46), Halle (Saale) 1990, pp. 29–42; The Tawfiq Canaan Collection of Palestinian Amulets. In: Ya kafi, Ya shafi: The Tawfiq Canaan Collection of Palestinian Amulets: An Exhibition, October 30, 1998 - February 25, 1999 . Birzeit 1998, pp. 27-34.
  10. ↑ Palestinian Folk Art . Berlin 1978.
  11. ↑ a b Kröger 2009, p. 62.
  12. ↑ The wonder of the world. The Orient and Frederick II (1194-1250) . Picture booklet of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, issue 77/78, Berlin 1995.
  13. ^ Palestinian glass jewelry and amulets from Hebron in the collections of the State Museum of Ethnology in Dresden . In: Treatises and reports of the Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden 42, 1986, pp. 193–205
  14. ↑ Kröger 2009, p. 82
  15. ↑ Since Sarre was born in 1865 (see Ernst Kühnel: Friedrich Sarre †. In: Der Islam. Vol. 29, H. 3, 1950, ISSN  0021-1818 , pp. 291-295, doi : 10.1515 / islm.1950.29. 3.291 , p. 291) the statement by Kröger (2009) is obviously a misprint.
  16. ^ Museum of Islamic Art (ed.): Museum of Islamic Art . von Zabern: Mainz am Rhein 2001. ISBN 3-8053-2681-5 ; State Museums of Berlin Prussian Cultural Property: Museum of Islamic Art . von Zabern: Mainz am Rhein 2003. ISBN 3-8053-3261-0 .
  17. ↑ Kröger 2009, p. 63.
  18. ↑ Kröger 2009, p. 84.
personal data
SURNAME Helmet corner, Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen