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Collected.Bought.Looted? Exhibition Weltkulturen Museum 2018
How did this Ganesha figure get from Java, Indonesia to Amsterdam? Purchase at Kunstzaal van Lier, Amsterdam April 1941. Collection Weltkulturen Museum
Did Colani's pass, a killed Ngqika, come to Germany from South Africa as a war trophy? Collectors: Carl Immanuel Müller, before 1879, Collection Weltkulturen Museum
The art dealer Carel van Lier with the ivory hunting horn, 1932, Photo: Erwin Blumenfeld, Courtesy of Erwin Blumenfeld Estate
Why did a head of the Duala give this headdress to a German teacher in Cameroon? Collector: Theodor Christaller, probably 1890s, Collection Weltkulturen Museum
Did this ancestor figure from Nias, Indonesia come to Europe through missionaries? Acquisition at Kunsthandel Aalderink, Amsterdam, April 1941, Collection Weltkulturen Museum
Visitors at the exhibition opening of COLLECTED. BOUGHT. LOOTED?, Weltkulturen Labor 2018
Visitors at the exhibition opening of COLLECTED. BOUGHT. LOOTED?, Weltkulturen Labor 2018
Visitors at the exhibition opening of COLLECTED. BOUGHT. LOOTED?, Weltkulturen Labor 2018
Visitors at the exhibition opening of COLLECTED. BOUGHT. LOOTED?, Weltkulturen Labor 2018
Curators Julia Friedel and Vanessa von Gliszczynski at the exhibtion opening of COLLECTED. BOUGHT. LOOTED?, Weltkulturen Labor 2018
Exhibition view COLLECTED.BOUGHT. LOOTED?, Weltkulturen Labor 2018
Exhibition view COLLECTED.BOUGHT. LOOTED?, Weltkulturen Labor 2018
Exhibition view COLLECTED.BOUGHT. LOOTED?, Weltkulturen Labor 2018
Exhibition view COLLECTED.BOUGHT. LOOTED?, Weltkulturen Labor 2018
COLLECTED. BOUGHT. LOOTED? Case Studies from a Colonial and National Socialist Context
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