VISUAL ARTS
Osthaus and the Islamic arts at the Folkwang
“Nach Damaskus …” (To Damascus …) examines the Islamic arts in the early Folkwang — and the European gaze that selected them.
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Islamic Art
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BACKGROUND
Before Renoir: Islamic Art and the Folkwang’s Other Founding Story
Long before Renoir and van Gogh entered the Folkwang in Hagen, Karl Ernst Osthaus was collecting ceramics, textiles and metalwork from North Africa and West Asia. An exhibition in Essen tells this early story – and asks how its structures and gaps can be made visible today.
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VISUAL ARTS
What Karl Ernst Osthaus collected – and how he classified it
Osthaus’s collection of Islamic arts tells of an early perspective beyond Europe – and of historical categories now being re-examined.
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