Museum of Islamic Art (Berlin)

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Museum of Islamic Art
Mshatta facade (Pergamon Museum) .jpg
Mshatta facade in the Museum of Islamic Art
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place Berlin ( Pergamon Museum )
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opening October 18, 1904
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The Museum of Islamic Art is located in the Pergamon Museum and is part of the Berlin State Museums .

collection

The museum exhibits diverse works of Islamic art from the 7th to 19th centuries from the area between Spain and India. The excavation activity in Ctesiphon , Samarra and Tabgha as well as the acquisition possibilities meant that Egypt , the Middle East and Iran in particular are important focal points. Other regions are represented by important collection objects or groups, such as B. the calligraphy and miniature painting from the Mughal Empire or the Sicilian works of art made of ivory .

Important collection items

Because of their size, their importance in art history and their popularity with museum visitors, the following should be mentioned in particular:

In addition to the permanent exhibition, the museum also shows exhibitions of modern art from the Islamic world, in 2008 for example "Turkish Delight" (contemporary Turkish design) and "Naqsh" (gender and role models in Iran).

In 2009 the museum received a collection of Islamic art from the London collector Edmund de Unger (1918–2011), the so-called “Keir Collection”, on permanent loan . The collection, which has been amassed over more than 50 years, comprises around 1,500 works of art from 2,000 years and is one of the largest private collections of Islamic art. More than one hundred exhibits from the Keir Collection were first shown in the special exhibition in 2007/2008 . Islamic art from the Edmund de Unger collection presented to the public in the Pergamon Museum. Another special exhibition with parts of this loan took place from March 2010 as part of the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Islamic Art with the title Collector's Luck. Masterpieces of Islamic Art from the Keir Collection . In July 2012, the collaboration between the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Prussischer Kulturbesitz and the owners of the Edmund de Unger collection was terminated and the collection originally intended as a long-term loan was withdrawn. The reasons given were “different ideas about how to continue working with the collection”.

history

King Hussein and Queen Nūr were led by director Klaus Brisch (foreground right) in the Museum of Islamic Art in Dahlem (November 6, 1978)

The museum was founded in 1904 by Wilhelm von Bode as an Islamic department in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum (today's Bode-Museum ) and initially set up by Friedrich Sarre as honorary director. The occasion was the donation of the facade of the Umayyad desert castle Mschatta by the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II to Kaiser Wilhelm II. Together with 21 carpets donated by Bode, the facade formed the basis of the collection. In the newly built Pergamon Museum, the museum moved to the upper floor of the south wing and was opened there in 1932. The exhibition was closed in 1939 because of the Second World War .

Despite the relocation of works of art and the securing of objects that remained in the Pergamon Museum, the collection suffered damage and losses. A bomb hit destroyed one of the gate towers of the Mshatta facade and an incendiary bomb completely or partially burned valuable carpets housed in a safe of the coin. In 1954 the collection was reopened as the Islamic Museum in the Pergamon Museum . The stocks relocated to the western occupation zones were returned to the museum in Dahlem, where they could also be exhibited again for the first time after the war in 1954. From 1968 to 1970 there was an exhibition in Charlottenburg Palace . In 1971 the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Islamic Art was opened in a new building in the Dahlem museum complex.

The Islamic Museum in the Pergamon Museum on Museum Island received in 1958 most of the 1945 to 1946 looted art in the Soviet Union back spent artworks. With the restoration of other important collection objects, it was possible until 1967 to make all exhibition rooms accessible to the public. On the basis of the Unification Treaty , the two museums were organizationally merged in 1992 under the name Museum für Islamische Kunst . The exhibition at the Dahlem location closed in 1998. A newly designed permanent exhibition was opened in 2000 on the upper floor of the south wing in the Pergamon Museum.

Directors

The history of the collection was largely shaped by the respective heads and directors, who at the same time influenced the development of Islamic art history in Germany.

Wilhelm von Bode 1904-1921
Friedrich Sarre 1921-1931
Ernst Kühnel 1931-1951
Dahlem Museum Island
Kurt Erdmann 1958-1964 Wolfgang Dudzus 1959–1965 director of the Islamic Museum
Klaus Brisch 1966-1988 Volkmar Enderlein 1965–1971 acting head , 1971–1978 serving as director
Michael Meinecke 1988-1991 1978-1991
Michael Meinecke 1992-1995
Volkmar Enderlein 1995-2001
Claus-Peter Haase December 1, 2001–31. January 2009
Stefan Weber since February 1, 2009

Exhibitions

Permanent exhibitions

  • since 2000: Islamic cultures
  • since 2016: Transcultural Relationships, Global Biographies - Islamic Art?

Special exhibitions

2013

  • Samarra - center of the world
  • Masterpieces from the Seraglio Paintings from the adhesive albums of Heinrich Friedrich von Diez
  • Affordable for many. Printed fabrics from Egyptian tombs
  • Decoration and tongue: book covers from the Islamic world

2014

  • Enjoyment and intoxication. Wine, Tobacco, and Drugs in Indian Paintings
  • Pride and passion. Representations of men in the Mughal period
  • Focus on Mshatta. The Jordanian desert castle in historical photographs

2015

  • Picnic in the park. Gardens in Islamic miniature painting
  • Aatifi - News from Afghanistan
  • How Islamic Art came to Berlin. The collector and museum director Friedrich Sarre

2016

  • Mystical travelers: Sufis , ascetics and holy men
  • Read words - feel words An introduction to the Koran in Berlin collections
  • Contrast Syria. Photographs by Mohamad Al Roumi
  • The legacy of the ancient kings. Ctesiphon and the Persian Sources of Islamic Art

2017

  • Iran. Departure into the modern age
  • Faithful Amazement - Biblical Traditions in the Islamic World
  • Comfortable: carpets in Indian miniature paintings

2018

  • Perched | Stopover. An installation by Felekşan Onar
  • Copy and mastery
  • The gallery in the book. Islamic scrapbooks
  • Tape Art
  • With a sense of proportion. Architectural masterpieces in Yemen

Research and education projects

Exhibition mediation

  • Fellowship International Museum of the Federal Cultural Foundation
  • Objects of transfer
  • Cultural stories from the Museum of Islamic Arts
  • Multaka: Museum meeting point - refugees as guides in Berlin museums

Research abroad

  • Areia Antiqua. The old Herat / 3 projects
  • Creation of digital cultural property registers for Syria
  • Iran: The Provincial Museum Yazd / National Museum Tehran
  • Qasr al-Mshatta: The early Islamic desert castle Mshatta, Jordan
  • Reconstruction of an old cultural landscape in Baluchistan, Pakistan
  • The Citadel of Aleppo, Syria

Cultural and political education

  • Preventing extremism and opening up museum educational access for Muslim multipliers
  • Common past - common future
  • TAMAM - The educational project of mosque communities with the Museum of Islamic Art

Collection related research

  • Khurasan - land of the sunrise
  • Ctesiphon
  • Samarra and the Abbasid Art
  • The Yousef Jameel digitization project

literature

Web links

Commons : Museum of Islamic Art  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ samarrafinds.info: The archaeological finds from Samarra in Iraq
  2. ↑ The dome was brought to Berlin by Arthur von Gwinner in 1891 and handed over to the museum by his heirs in 1978. Jens Kröger: Alhambra dome (2012). Museum With No Frontiers - Discover Islamic Art .
  3. ↑ Anna McSweeney: 'Arthur von Gwinner and the Alhambra Dome' in Julia Gonnella and Jens Kröger (eds) How Islamic Art Came to Berlin. The collector and museum director Friedrich Sarre (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH, 2015), 89-102.
  4. ↑ Alhambra dome . German digital library
  5. ↑ Extensive permanent loan from the Edmund de Ungers collection
  6. ↑ Press release of July 13, 2012. ( Memento of the original of September 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. State museums in Berlin - Prussian cultural heritage @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.smb.museum
  7. ↑ Jens Kröger: The Berlin Museum for Islamic Art as a research institution for Islamic art in the 20th century  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / orient.ruf.uni-freiburg.de   (PDF; 692 kB). In: XXX. German Orientalist Day, Freiburg, 24. – 28. September 2007. Selected lectures, edited on behalf of DMG by Rainer Brunner, Jens Peter Laut and Maurus Reinkowski, 2009, p. 10.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '15 "  N , 13 ° 23' 47"  E