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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cultural attribution
Edo
Object type
figures (representations)
Dimensions
187 x 80 x 70
mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 47317
Other number(s)
RJM 1943/05
Provenance and sources
where
Nigeria
historical: Kingdom
Benin
Africa -> West Africa ->
Nigeria
when
1944-23-03
where
Paris
Description
Hildebrand Gurlitt was the intermediary who organised the
organised the transport of the objects selected by museum director Martin Heydrich
to Germany and who organised the financial transfer.
financial transfer.
when
2022-15-12
where
Cologne
who
Stadt Köln
Bundesrepublik
Nigeria - Recipients
Description
This Benin court artwork will remain on loan to the museum
in the museum until it is physically restituted in the coming years.
in the coming years.
Source(s)
Vereinbarung über die Rückgabe von
Benin-Bronzen zwischen der Stadt Köln und der Bundesrepublik
Nigeria
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