Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 033380

Linden-Museum-Stuttgart
Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 033380
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Linden-Museum-Stuttgart
Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 033380
License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Linden-Museum-Stuttgart
Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 033380
License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Linden-Museum-Stuttgart
Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 033380
License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Linden-Museum-Stuttgart
Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 033380
License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

 

Object description
This information was provided by the German museum where the object is currently located or where it was located prior to restitution.

Object Name Copper alloy sculpture depicting two men
Description The group of figures shows two men standing next to each other and embracing. They wear decorative scars on their foreheads, but hardly any jewelry, so they are not to be addressed as high-ranking dignitaries. The stylized faces as well as the poorer quality of craftsmanship with a rough surface speak for a production in the late phase (after 1840). Perhaps it is a part of a larger scenery. In their "bronzes" the kingdom recorded important events for posterity, e.g. ruler's deeds, war campaigns or ceremonies and sacrifices. Thus, not only sacred relics were stolen, but also evidence of collective memory in a society without writing. Text: Dietmar Neitzke.
Type Figurengruppe
Materials Copper alloy
Size, Dimensions Width: 13 cm. Heigth: 21.7 cm.
Dating of Object

Museum / Collection / Acquisition
This information was provided by the German museum where the object is currently located or where it was located prior to restitution.

Museum Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Museum Inv.-No 033380
Collector unknown
Acquisition date 1903
Circumstances of acquisition It seems that the previous owner wanted to be anonym. The object is always listed in all documents, such as the inventory book, without the name of who they came from. Text: Markus Himmelsbach.
   
Notes It seems that the previous owner wanted to be anonym.

Current ownership status and location

Status restituted
Date of last status change 14 December 2022
Current ownership Federal Republic of Nigeria
Holding institution National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM, Nigeria)
Current location Temporarily at the Linden-Museum Stuttgart

Categorization for the search functions
This information was included by the German Contact Point for Collections from Colonial Contexts and is intended to make the object easier to find in the database.

Object Type sculpture
Materials metal; copper alloy
Tags

Dataset

ID 149
last Change 2023-01-26 12:15:00
License Linden-Museum Stuttgart