Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Die Zauberflöte, Oper von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Entwurf zur Dekoration, Die Sternenhalle der Königin der Nacht, Detail / Bildnachweis: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett / Jörg P. Anders

Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Die Zauberflöte, Oper von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Entwurf zur Dekoration, Die Sternenhalle der Königin der Nacht, Detail / Bildnachweis: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett / Jörg P. Anders

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Of Rank But Without Name
Portraits of Anonymous Officials and Textile Rank Badges

05.09.2023 to 26.02.2024
Humboldt Forum

In the last decades of the Qing dynasty (1644 – 1911), Chinese painters in Beijing created portraits of anonymous government officials in court costumes with square insignia for foreign clients. These works appear simpler than the portraits in this gallery, painted for the Emperor by European Jesuit painters or under their guidance and use of Western realism. The Qianlong emperor (r. 1736 – 1795) conferred civil ranks also to foreign officials, who then also wore rank badges on their official robes. Later such insignia were removed from the robes. Without knowing whose robe these pieces once adorned, they were also sold at local markets and thus entered private and museum collections.

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The exhibition is curated by Birgitta Augustin.


This temporary presentation of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is part of the permanent exhibition Ethnological Collections and Asian Art in the Humboldt Forum.

Buddha (Pakistan, 2--3. century) in the module "Buddhist Art in South Asia. Stupas, Buddhas,
Bodhisattvas" of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst in the Humboldt Forum
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Alexander Schippel

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