Following Damascus

Before the Folkwang founder Karl Ernst Osthaus (1874–1921) collected the Impressionists, he had begun to assemble a significant collection of Islamicate art. This volume opens up the scope and influence of this early European collection, reveals its diversity and critically interrogates the holdings from a contemporary perspective. Works of classical modernism, European design and contemporary pieces broaden the historical context. A wide-ranging overview of Museum Folkwang’s magnificent collection – one that enchants and inspires. Artists: Alī Akbar b. Muḥammad Ṣādiq al-Isfahānī, Alī Akbar b. Muḥammad Ṣādiq al-Tunikābunī, Dana Awartani, Peter Behrens, Brend’amour Simhart, Paula Deetjen, Julius Diez, Else Lasker-Schüler, Henri Matisse, Juan and Diego Pulido, Gertrud Osthaus, Franz Stoedtner, Bruno Taut, Johan Thorn Prikker, et al.