Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

History

Collections

• Historic keyboard instruments: harpsichords, spinets, virginals, clavichords, fortepianos and square pianos.
• Faience and porcelain: most of the major 17th- and 18th-century porcelain manufacturers are represented.

• Islam: the centrepiece is a collection of 71 tile fragments from the mausoleum of Buyan Kuli Chan in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. The Islam section also includes pottery, carpets and books.
• Early 16th-century carpet from Lüne Abbey, displayed only once a year for a few days between Easter and Pentecost.
• Furniture by Henry van de Velde and Paul Gauguin.
• Japanese tea house and accompanying ceremony.
• Art Nouveau: an ensemble of Art Nouveau furniture and exhibits, the "Paris Room", much of it acquired at the world's fair in Paris in 1900. Including two greater-than-lifesized white sculptures from 1907, faience sculptures of girls by Richard Luksch, and the Swan Carpet by Otto Eckmann.
• The Modern, 1914–1945: Expressionist works, including animal sculptures by Richard Haizmann, a maplewood sculpture of a woman by Ernst Heckel, works by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Ewald Mataré, and everyday objects in Bauhaus style.
• Other collections include Baroque figurines; items from the Far East; design; book art; graphic art; photography; and antique.pottery, weaponry and statues