Self-portrait of the Korean painter Pai Unsong with a shaman's hat; European and Korean architectural sketches can be recognised in the background. The painting was created after Pai studied oil painting in Paris from 1922 to 1925 and then under Ferdinand Spiegel at the Vereinigte Staatsschule für freie und angewandte Kunst in Berlin. Pai lived here until 1937 and returned to his homeland in Korea in 1940. Two of his paintings survived the Second World War in Berlin and subsequently ended up in the National Gallery in the Russian sector. Dr Vera-Maria Ruthenberg, Deputy Director of the National Gallery for many years, subsequently handed them over to the East Asian Collection. On the occasion of an exhibition in Seoul in 2001, at the request of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Berlin, we placed the painting on the website of that institution for several months. (Comment: Siegmar Nahser).