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Exhibition view of the "East Asia study collection“ and the modul "Artists and Connoisseurs. Chinese art in context“ des Museums für Asiatische Kunst im Humboldt Forum
Imperial throne seat with three part screen (China, 1651 – 1675) in the module “China and Euope. Art between war and peace" of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst in the Humboldt Forum
Twelve-leaf Coromandel lacquer folding screen (17th century, China) in the module "China: Painting in Transition"of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst in the Humboldt Forum
Buddha (Pakistan, 2nd-3rd century) in the module "Buddhist Art in South Asia. Stupas, Buddhas, Bodhisattvas“ of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst in the Humboldt Forum
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara in water-moon-pose (China, Song Dynasty, 960 – 1279) in the module "Art and cult. Sacred art in China and Japan“ of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst in the Humboldt Forum
Exhibition view of the "East Asia study collection“ (right) and the module „Artists and Connoisseurs. Chinese art in context“ of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst in the Humboldt Forum
Throne "Mandu Yenu" with footrest (Cameroon, before 1885) in the module "Colonial Cameroon. Conquest and agency“ of the Ethnologisches Museum at Humboldt Forum
Power figure “mangaaka“ (Congo, Yombe, 19th century) in the module “Open Storage Africa. Appropriating objects and imagining Africa“ of the Ethnologisches Museum in the Humboldt Forum
Processional bull Nandi, Shiva’s mount, (19th–20th century) in the module "Hindu Art in South Asia“ of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst in the Humboldt Forum
"I DOUBT This!" – the commentary on the margin of a lecture transcript from the summer semester of 1885 reads as if it were an exclamation. Friedrich Blanck uses capital letters, equality and exclamation marks to reinforce his doubt. The author was a student at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (today's Humboldt-Universität) in Berlin.
