Currently not displayed.

Lamak Ornament

Lamak

Standort

Currently not displayed.

In 1935 Helene Potjewijd moved to Vienna. In 1947 she bequeathed her ethnographic collection to the Museum for Ethnography in Vienna. In the collection there are 46 lamak drawings by Walter Spies. This constitutes the largest-preserved collection of lamak drawings by him. In addition to the individual motifs, the collection also contains two drawings of lamak at original scale

Object data

Inv. No.

130909

Object Name

Pen drawing

Collector

Helene Potjewijd (1872 Meester Cornelis /Java - 1949 Wien)

Artist

Walter Spies - GND

Dated

ca. 1935

Accession Date

1946

Culture

Bali

Material

Graphite and ink, washed, on paper

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