Icon Museum Biedenkopf
The Biedenkopf Icon Museum forms a department of the Schenkbarschen Haus - Museum , near the church 8–9 in Biedenkopf.
founding
The Biedenkopf Icon Museum found its place in 2010 together with a textile museum in the renovated oldest house in the city of Biedenkopf, the Schenkbarschen House . It shows a small private collection of Russian , Greek , Serbian and Ethiopian icons and sacred implements .
Focus of the collection
The Biedenkopf Icon Museum offers visitors the opportunity to get an explanation of Russian and Greek icons from the 16th to 19th centuries, with a special focus on explaining the visual implementation of central Orthodox theology. There is also a considerable collection of pieces that illustrate the production of icons and icon fittings, such as training boards from painting schools and matrices for icon fittings . Another focus is on the restoration of icons. The focus of the collection is less on particularly large, particularly beautiful or lavishly gilded icons, but rather focuses primarily on theologically demanding representations and the development of pictorial themes as well as orthodox pictorial theology.
management
The museum is managed by the Protestant theologian and icon restorer Christoph Kaiser.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 48.1 ″ N , 8 ° 31 ′ 42.5 ″ E