Palmweinpokal, Bakuba, Zentralafrika, 1886, Foto Eva Winkler
Die 17 500 Objekte umfassende Sammlung afrikanischer Kunst- und Gebrauchsgegenstände des Museums beinhaltet Stücke, die schon zum Bestand der um 1560 gegründeten sächsischen kurfürstlichen Kunstkammer gehörten.
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Discover 12 Museums having African Art in Germany, thousands of objects to discover
Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden
Museum der Weltkulturen Frankfurt am Main
Völkerkundemuseum im Residenzschloss Oettingen in Bayem
Ethnologisches Museum Berlin
Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde München München
Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum Cologne
Museum für Völkerkunde, Leipzig
Linden Museum Stuttgart
Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg
Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover Hannover
Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim
<<< A pair of Baule’s seen in the Übersee-Museum Bremen
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| Culture hero: This figure from Angola is said to represent a character called Chibinda Ilunga. (Courtesy Photo) |
SAN FRANCISCO — “Fetish” — an object embodying magical powers — is neither politically nor factually correct, says curator Constantine Petridis, but that’s what they were called in the West before.
Now, these looming, fantastical wooden sculptures in the de Young Museum’s “Art and Power in the Central African Savanna” are known as “power objects.”
The eighth annual Parcours des mondes, one of the world’s leading international tribal art fair, will take place in Shops around Saint-Germain-des-Prés from September 9 to 13, 2009.
Paris 6eme arrondissement around the rue de Seine, rue des Beaux Arts, rue Jacques Callot, rue Mazarine, rue Guenegaud
If you plan to stay a few days it is recommended to book an hotel as soon as possible
Masque, Mende, Sierra Leone. Photo © Anne Deknock. Galerie J. Visser, Bruxelles
official site: http://www.parcours-des-mondes.com/
related: parcours des mondes
exhibition Regards de marchands. La passion des arts premiers
(The Dealer’s Eye: A Passion for Tribal Art) at the Monnaie de Paris, near the rue Guenegaud, 11 quai de Conti, Paris.
During on of the last auction in Paris this Dan spoon with a perfect provenance caught my eye:
So why does this spoon have a perfect provenance ?
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