Winter, Petra
Verhandeln – Kaufen – Sammeln: Ägyptische Objekte und ihre Erwerbungsgeschichten am Beispiel des Ägyptischen Museums in Berlin 1884–1894
Provenance has been in the focus of international museum research and politics for more than a decade. This book analyses acquisition histories of objects in the Berlin Egyptian Museum during the first years of the director Adolf Erman (1854—1937). Therefore, two original documents of the Central Archive of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin have been analysed and published. This allows the identification of individual provenances as well as their acquisition context. The recording of the various art and antiquities markets, the protagonists, museums and their acquisition strategies illustrate the antiquities trade in the 19th century in Egypt and Europe.
