20 April 2008 – 2 November 2008

Bourgeois Pride and Princely Splendour. Costumes from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century

The Abegg-Stiftung is planning an exhibition of important historic costumes from the collections of the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden in Germany. The exhibition will show a group of around twenty bourgeois costumes from the seventeenth century, which originally belonged to families in Cologne and later came to Darmstadt with the collection of Baron von Hüpsch. A smaller number of women’s costumes from the late eighteenth century complements this group. The second part of the exhibition presents a costume of the Elector Moritz of Saxony, datable to the first half of the sixteenth century, from the collection of the Dresden Rüstkammer. All of the costumes were examined and conserved in the conservation workshop of the Abegg-Stiftung over the last few years. The results of this research will be presented in a richly illustrated catalogue.

Address

Abegg-Stiftung Riggisberg
Werner Abegg-Strasse 67
3132 Riggisberg
phone +41 31 808 12 01
http://www.abegg-stiftung.ch

Opening Hours

Museum and Villa will be closed until April 29th. Opened from April 30th through November 12th, daily 2 p.m. - 5.30 p. m.

Description of the Museum

The Abegg Foundation collects and undertakes research into historic textiles from the early days to around 1800, primarily regarding pieces from the European and Mediterranean areas. It also holds important works of applied art, paintings and sculpture. The textile wall hangings of late antiquity, pieces from the European Middle Ages and the testimonies of the Silk Road from the early Middle Ages are of major international importance.

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