Symposium
The symposium Circa 1909 focuses on the history and provenance of Western museum collections that were put together around 1909.
9.30: Welcome address: Professor Georg Quander, Kulturdezernent
der Stadt Köln
9.40: Dr. Adele Schlombs, director, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln:
New Horizons of the Early 20th Century: The Founding of the Museum of East Asian Art in Cologne and the Idea of a Museum Specialized in the Arts of East Asia
10.15: Dr. Herbert Butz, chief curator of the Museum of Asian Art, East Asian Collection, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin:
New Beginnings in Berlin 1909: Early Presentations of the East Asian Collections in Berlin and Munich
10.45 to 11.20: Nora von Achenbach, curator of the department of East Asian and Islamic art, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg:
Justus Brinckmann and the Collection of Japanese Art in Hamburg
11.20 – 11.30 coffee break
11.30: Prof. Dr. Maria Menshikova, curator of the Chinese department of the Eremitage, St. Petersburg:
Chinese Applied Arts from the Collection of Schtiglitz-Polovzov Family and the Russian Central Asia Expeditions
12.05 to 12.40: Dr. Alexander Sinitsyn, curator of the Japanese collection of the Ethnological Museum, St. Petersburg:
The Story of the Japanese Collections of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences from the Early 18th to the Early 20th centuries: Peculiarities, Collectors, Masterpieces
12.40 – 13.30 p.m. lunch in the cafeteria of the museum
13.30: Dr. Györgyi Fajcsák, director of the Ferenc Hopp Museums of East Asian Art, Budapest: The Arts of Asia in Hungary Around 1909
14.05: Dr. Clarissa von Spee, curator of the Chinese and Central Asian Collections, the British Museum, London:
Marc Aurel Stein’s Second Silk Road Expedition (1906-09): A Milestone in the Formation of the Asian Art Collection at the British Museum
14.40 to 15.15: Professor Dr. Jacques Giès. director, Musée Guimet, Musée Nationale des Arts Asiatiques, Paris:
Paul Pelliot and the Early History of the Musée Guimet’s Collection
15.15 – 15.30 p.m. coffee break
15.30: Professor Stanley K. Abe, Department of Art History, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina: Circa 1909: Moving Japanese and Chinese Sculpture to the United States
16.05: Dr. Chen Shen, curator of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada: Bishop White and James Mellon Menzies:
The Role of Christian Missionaries in Forming the Collections of Chinese Art in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
16.40 to 17.30: panel discussion and closing remarks
Participation is free of charge.
The conference will be held in English. There is only a limited number of seats in the conference hall.
The symposium has been made possible by a generous grant of the
Fritz-Thyssen-
Foundation
Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln
Universitätsstraße 100
50674 Köln
Tel.: 0221.221.28608
Fax: 0221.22128610
www.museenkoeln.de
mok@mok.museenkoeln.de
Parking facilities
Car park at the Museum
Public transport
From Neumarkt tram station lines 1 or 7 to Universitätsstraße
