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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
The Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum is a museum of ethnography in Cologne, Germany. It was reopened in 2010. The museum arose from a collection of over 3500 items belonging to ethnographer Wilhelm Joest. After his death in 1897, the collection was left to his sister Adele Rautenstrauch. In 2018, the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum returned a tattooed Maori skull, which had been in its collection for 110 years, to a delegation representing the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington; the skull was purchased in 1908 by the first director of the Rautenstrauch Joest Museum, Willy Foy, from a London dealer.Catherine Hickley (July 13, 2018German museum returns tattooed Maori skull to New Zealand''The Art Newspaper ''The Art Newspaper'' is a monthly print publication, with daily updates online, founded in 1990 and based in London and New York City. It covers news of the visual arts as they are affected by international politics and economics, developments i ...''. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adele Rautenstrauch
Anna Maria Adele Rautenstrauch, née Joest (born 23 February 1850 in Cologne; died 30 December 1903 in Neustrelitz) was a German patron and benefactor. She donated the inherited ethnological collection of her brother Wilhelm Joest, which still forms the basis of the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, to the City of Cologne. Life Adele Joest was born in Cologne on 23 February 1850 as the daughter of Maria Wilhelmina Eduarda Joest, née Leiden, and the sugar manufacturer Eduard Joest. In 1872 she married the merchant Eugen Rautenstrauch (1842-1900), who continued her father's import business of animal skins. The Rautenstrauch couple collected antique and ethnological exhibits. Adele Rautenstrauch's younger brother Wilhelm undertook numerous trips around the world and thus built up an extensive ethnological collection. After his death in Ureparapara in 1898, his sister inherited her brother's extraordinary collection, which she had brought to Cologne. Together with her husband Eugen–who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Joest
Wilhelm Joest (15 March 1852, Köln – 25 November 1897) was a German ethnographer and world traveler. He studied sciences and languages at the universities of University of Bonn, Bonn, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg and University of Berlin, Berlin, and afterwards took a study trip to North Africa. From 1876 to 1879 he traveled throughout North and South America, conducting scientific investigations from Canada southward to Patagonia, during which, he collected numerous ethnographic, anthropological and zoological items.ADB:Joest von Calcar, Wilhelm In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, S. 680–683. From 1879 to 1881 he journeyed widely in southern and eastern Asia — from Ceylon he traveled through India to the Himalayas, then accompanied the Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
