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Deutsches Elfenbeinmuseum Erbach | |
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Established | 1966 |
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Location | Erbach im Odenwald |
Coordinates | 49°39′47″N9°0′3″E / 49.66306°N 9.00083°E |
Type | Art |
Collection size | Ivory, Amber |
Director | Harald Buschmann |
President | Erbgraf Eberhard zu Erbach-Erbach |
Curator | Karlheinz Flach |
Website | http://www.elfenbeinmuseum.de |
The German Ivory Museum Erbach (Deutsches Elfenbeinmuseum Erbach) is a museum in Erbach im Odenwald, Germany. It was founded in 1966, but the collection was started by Count Francis I in the late 18th century. The city of Erbach then developed to become one of the centres for ivory carving.
The museum exhibition consists of more than two thousand items that represent European, African, Asian, and Greenlandic ivory carving art from the Middle Ages to the present day. One of the focuses is the work of ivory carvers in the Odenwald area in the 19th and 20th centuries, for example Jan Holschuh.
In early 2006, the museum was modernised and extended. [1] Other ivory museums in this region are the privately owned Ivory Museum Michelstadt and the church-owned Ivory Museum Walldürn.
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The Odenwaldkreis is a Kreis (district) in the south of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Darmstadt-Dieburg, Miltenberg, Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis and Kreis Bergstraße. Odenwaldkreis belongs to the Rhine Neckar Area.
Heppenheim (Bergstraße) is the seat of Bergstraße district in Hesse, Germany, lying on the Bergstraße on the edge of the Odenwald. It is best known for being the birthplace of Sebastian Vettel, a four-time Formula One World Champion and the place of founding of the Free Democratic Party (Germany).
Michelstadt in the Odenwald is a town in the Odenwaldkreis (district) in southern Hesse, Germany between Darmstadt and Heidelberg. It has a population of 28,629 people.
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Johann Philipp Ferdinand Preiss was a German sculptor. He was one of the leading sculptors of the Art Deco period.
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Bad König is a town and resort (Kurort) in the central Odenwald in the Odenwaldkreis (district) in Hesse, Germany, 29 km southeast of Darmstadt.
Beerfelden was a town in the Odenwald in the Odenwaldkreis (district) in Hesse, Germany, 28 km northeast of Heidelberg. On 1 January 2018 Beerfelden, Hesseneck, Rothenberg and Sensbachtal merged to create the town Oberzent.
Breuberg is a town in the Odenwaldkreis district of Hesse, Germany. It is 28 km east of Darmstadt and 20 km southwest of Aschaffenburg.
Limbach is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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Franz Graf zu Erbach-Erbach was a German nobleman and art collector.
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The Mümling is a river of Hesse and Bavaria, Germany. It is 49.7 kilometres (30.9 mi) long and lends its name to the Mümlingtal in Odenwald. In Bavaria it is sometimes called Mömling in official documents. It is a left tributary of the Main.
Jan Holschuh was a German sculptor and a designer. He was one of the leading contemporary ivory carving artists. Many of his ivory sculptures are housed in the German Ivory Museum Erbach. During his lifetime, he produced more than 200 sculptures from elephant ivory, mammoth ivory fossil, and amber. He won many awards, including the Grand Prix of 1929 Barcelona International Exposition and State Prize Munich in 1966.
Darmstadt Nord (north) station is a junction station in the city of Darmstadt in the German state of Hesse. The passenger station, which is served by trains of the Odenwald Railway and the Rhine-Main Railway (Rhine-Main-Bahn), has four platform tracks. Running parallel and north of the station are two additional tracks for freight traffic.
The Helm of Cannae is an artefact in the antiquities collection of Franz, Count of Erbach-Erbach, at Erbach Palace in Erbach im Odenwald. It is, reputedly, one of the few surviving helmets from the field of the Battle between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginians under Hannibal in 216 BC. It is most famous for a legend about its acquisition by the count.
Christian Wilhelm Karl Kehrer of Erbach was a German hunting and animal painter, court painter and archivist.