Museum Angewandte Kunst opens exhibition The Collection of Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild
For this reason, the exhibition focuses on the sale of the collection to the city of Frankfurt am Main in 1938 under the pressure of persecution, the subsequent transfer of its handicraft items to the Museum für Kunsthandwerk (now the Museum Angewandte Kunst) and the return of a significant portion of the collection to the rightful heirs after the Second World War.
The exhibition presents the collection and its biography against the background of the museum’s own history. In doing so, it draws on the most recent results of provenance research conducted at the museum in connection with a project funded by the German Lost Art Foundation, also involving a critical look at the institution’s history. The exhibition presents and critically questions items from the collection that have remained in the museum’s own holdings to this day. It also features a number of international loans.
The exhibition is on from 28 January to 4 June 2023.
See www.museumangewandtekunst.de for details.
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