ANNE WANNER'S Textiles in History / book reviews, articles |
Leopold
Iklé - a passionate collector, by Anne Wanner-JeanRichard, hgg.
Textilmuseum St.Gallen, mit Beiträgen von Marianne
Gächter-Weber und Cordula M. Kessler Loertscher, St. Gallen 2002 in german language, 56 pages, coloured illustrations ISBN 3-9520007-4-4 sFr. 25.- Tel. +41 (0)71 222 17 44 |
Leopold
Iklé (1838-1922), textile industrialist, connoisseur and
explorer of textile works of art donated his first
valuable collection of historic textiles to the then
Industry and Textile Museum, today's Textile Museum. In
the course of the last 100 years or so, further objects
from Iklé's second collection have also found their way
into the Textile Museum. |
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Even in Iklés own time,
these very valuable, unique objects were unlikely to have
been simply on offer on the art market. Jointly, the two
friends deciphered the iconography of the biblical
representations on lace, fabrics and embroideries, which
meant a great deal to the collector. Together they
published two extensive volumes on lace and embroideries
from the Leopold Iklé Collection which contain numerous
high-quality illustrations and which attract a great deal
of attention. Textile objects of outstanding quality reveal the collector's very wide-ranging interests. They can be dated to the time between the 6th and 18th centuries and extend far beyond the first collection goal, namely to provide models and a source of inspiration for the industrial production of embroideries. |
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