Kristin Bühler-Oppenheim

Kristin Bühler-Oppenheim (born March 16, 1915 in Basel ; died 1984 ) was a Swiss textile ethnologist .

Life

Kristin Oppenheim was born as the second youngest daughter of the German military doctor Erich Alfons Oppenheim and his Swiss wife Eva Wenger. Her older sister was Meret Oppenheim . The siblings spent their childhood in Delsberg in the Bernese Jura with their grandmother Lisa Wenger , after the end of the First World War they lived in Steinen in southern Germany.

At the Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the University of Basel , she did her doctorate in 1941 under Felix Speiser with a thesis on a collection of textiles and plaiting that Fritz Sarasin set up in New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands between 1910 and 1912 . From 1941 to 1946 she worked as an assistant at the Basel Museum of Ethnology and the Swiss Museum of Folklore . In 1943 she married the Basel ethnologist and explorer Alfred Bühler , who in 1950 became director of the Museum für Völkerkunde, now the Basel Museum of Cultures . They had three children. She also worked and published with Alfred Bühler. She continued to deal with the systematics of textile techniques. The Bühler couple were regarded as excellent experts in the field of textiles , received the extensive textile collection of the industrialist Fritz Iklé-Huber as a bequest in 1946 and in turn donated them to the Basel Museum. The scientific study and documentation was published in 1948. It became known as the Basler Systematik and was revised and expanded again in 1973 and 1991 by Annemarie Seiler-Baldinger .

Fonts

• An attempt to interpret New Caledonian coin heads and money strings on the basis of Polynesian analogies. In: Negotiations of the Natural Research Society in Basel , Volume 52, 1941, pp. 49–62.
• The primary textile techniques of the New Caledonians and Loyalty Islanders. (= International Archive for Ethnography ; 41, Supplement). Brill, Leiden 1942. (At the same time dissertation, Basel, Philosophical-Historical Faculty).
• with Georg Höltker : Ethnographica from New Guinea. In: Annali Lateranensi , Volume 9, 1945, pp. 261-302. In it by Kristin Bühler: Decorative string bags as dance jewelry for the men of New Guinea.
• Swiss folk art. Amerbach-Verlag, Basel 1947.
• Primary textile techniques. In: Ciba Rundschau , 73, 1947, pp. 2688-2720.
• with Alfred Bühler: The Fritz Iklé-Huber textile collection in the Museum of Ethnology and the Swiss Museum of Folklore, Basel. Commission publisher Gebr. Fretz, Zurich 1948.
• Signs, marks, prongs. Signs, brands, marks. Hatje, Stuttgart 1971.

literature

• Bettina Beer : Women in German-speaking Ethnology. A manual. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-11206-6 , pp. 46–47.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bice Curiger : Meret Oppenheim. Traces of survived freedom. ABC Verlag, Zurich 1982, p. 9.
2. ↑ Meret Oppenheim, Leben und Werk ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website. Retrieved February 21, 2017. 
3. ↑ Review: Alfred Bühler: The primary textile techniques of the New Caledonians and Loyalty Islanders by Kristin Oppenheim. In: Anthropos , Volume 35/36, 1940/41, pp. 1084-1086. ( JSTOR 40459929 ). Retrieved February 21, 2017.
4. ^ Karl Meuli: Alfred Bühler. In: Carl August Schmitz , Robert Wildhaber (ed.): Festschrift Alfred Bühler. (= Basel contributions to ethnology ; 2). Pharos-Verlag, Basel, 1965, pp. 17-26.
5. ↑ Review: Gertrud von Palotay: Fritz Iklé-Huber textile collection in the Museum of Ethnology and the Swiss Museum of Folklore, Basel . In: Anthropos , Volume 45, pp. 398-399, ( JSTOR 40450856 ). Retrieved February 21, 2017.
6. ↑ Annemarie Seiler-Baldinger: Systematics of the textile techniques. Based on the “Fundamentals of the Systematics of Textile Techniques” by Alfred and Kristin Bühler-Oppenheim. Completely revised and expanded edition. (= Basel contributions to ethnology ; 32). Wepf, Basel 1991, ISBN 3-85977-185-X .
7. ↑ Review: Gertrud von Palotay: Primary Textile Techniques by Kristin Bühler-Oppenheim. In: Anthropos , Volume 41/44, 1946/49, p. 396. ( JSTOR 40449201 ). Retrieved February 21, 2017.