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Silberschmiedearbeiten aus Kurdistan
Berliner, Rudolf & Paul Borchardt: Silberschmiedearbeiten aus Kurdistan. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer - Ernst Vohsen, 1922. 31 pages with 15 monochrome illustrations plus 20 monochrome plates. Cloth backed boards. 36.5x25.5cms. Catalogue of a collection of Kurdish silver put together by Paul Borchardt (1886-1953), a German archaeologist of jewish extraction, while he was part of the Turco-German Millitary Mission in Kurdistan 1916-18. He was imprisoned in Dachau, escaped to Britain in 1939, and thence to the United States where he was arrested and put on trial for spying in 1941, and was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. His early release was secured in 1952 due to petitioning from the German government, but he died less than a year afterwards. Berliner, was empolyed at the Bayerischen Nationalmuseum from 1912, imprisoned in Dachau in 1933 but released due to his war record. In 1939 he escaped and later worked at the Cooper Union, R.I.S.D.I., and the Textile Museum Washington. Text in German.
Catalogue of a collection of Kurdish silver put together by Paul Borchardt (1886-1953), a German archaeologist of jewish extraction, while he was part of the Turco-German Millitary Mission in Kurdistan 1916-18. He was imprisoned in Dachau, escaped to Britain in 1939, and thence to the United States where he was arrested and put on trial for spying in 1941, and was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. His early release was secured in 1952 due to petitioning from the German government, but he died less than a year afterwards. Berliner, was empolyed at the Bayerischen Nationalmuseum from 1912, imprisoned in Dachau in 1933 but released due to his war record. In 1939 he escaped and later worked at the Cooper Union, R.I.S.D.I., and the Textile Museum Washington. Text in German
