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The August Kestner Museum (German: Museum August Kestner), previously Kestner-Museum, is a museum in Hanover, Germany.Founded in 1889, the museum was renamed in December 2007 to avoid confusion with the Kestnergesellschaft, a local art gallery.
Kestner Gesellschaft (Kestner Society) is an art institution in Hanover, Germany, founded in 1916 to promote the arts. Its founders included the painter Wilhelm von Debschitz (1871–1948). The association blossomed under the management of Alexander Dorner [ de ] and Justus Bier [ de ] , pioneering modern art.
Hannover: Madsack 1964. 100 Jahre Kestner-Museum Hannover. 1889-1989. Hrsg. von Ulrich Gehrig. Hannover: Kestner-Museum 1989. ISBN 3-924029-14-8; Auf den Spuren von August Kestner. Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung, 6. März bis 20. Juli 2003, Kestner-Museum Hannover. Hannover: Kestner-Museum 2003. (Museum Kestnerianum. 5) ISBN 3-924029-33-4
Originally the 21 centimetre high document had a length of 715 centimetres - that is, 15 pages. As a result of damage in the Second World War, when the central city of Hanover was bombed and the Kestner Museum took heavy damage, it only survives in the form of three fragments with a length of 1.64 m, which includes the central scene. The very ...
It entered the antiquities collection of the Museum August Kestner in 1989 (inventory number 1989.30) Larnakes are pottery sarcophagi modelled on similar coffins in wood and were a standard part of Late Minoan funerary practices. [1] Too small for bodies, they were used as "ash-chests" after cremation. The Hanover larnax survives largely ...
When the Kimbell Art Museum secured Jean Siméon Chardin’s “The Basket of Wild Strawberries” at auction for almost 24.4 million euros ($26.4 million) last March, the Texas institution ...
Museum August Kestner was founded in 1889 and exhibits art of ancient and Egyptian cultures, design, coins and medals. The portal at the entrance to the building department (Baudezernat) dates to 1736. It was moved there in 1955 after the barracks whose stable it adorned was destroyed by the aerial bombings during World War II.
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