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Khmer Art Overseas - Vishnu Coming Home: I love feel-good stories, especially when it comes to the repatriation of beautiful Khmer works of art. So, here’s an unexpected one, all the way from Cologne in Germany. I’ve just located an ethnography museum in Cologne, called Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum (RJM), which has a Khmer collection of 74 objects, mainly stone sculptures/fragments, a few bronzes, ceramics, stone rubbings and textiles. In researching their Khmer artifacts in 2020, the RJM’s investigations revealed that the sandstone head of a Vishnu sculpture very likely left Cambodia illegally in the 1960s and found its way to the museum via the art market. With stolen artworks from Cambodia finding a booming market in the West, Bangkok functioned as the hub for looted objects, and this is where the Vishnu head was purchased by Swiss collector Wilhelm Siegel in 1968. The object first came to the RJM in 1984 as a loan for the special exhibition The Timeless Portrait. At the time, co-curator and catalog author Piriya Krairiksh pointed out a strong resemblance to a vanished Vishnu from Prasat Bakong. Two years later, in 1986, the RJM purchased the head as part of a collection of Khmer and Thai sculptures. Since the museum reopened in 2010, it has been on display in the permanent exhibition. Following their provenance research, the RJM have identified that the Vishnu head did indeed match one stolen from Prasat Bakong in the Roluos Group and have been waiting for the appropriate post-Covid opportunity to return the head to its rightful home in Cambodia. A big pat on the back to the RJM for their proactive actions. The head of the deity Vishnu, sculpted in the early Bayon period of the late 12th century, is coming home.https://www.facebook.com/andy.brouwer.71

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EDIT ARTICLE ---------------------------------------- Khmer Art Overseas - Vishnu Coming Home: I love feel-good stories, especially when it comes to the repatriation of beautiful Khmer works of art. So, here’s an unexpected one, all the way from Cologne in Germany. I’ve just located an ethnography museum in Cologne, called Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum (RJM), which has a Khmer collection of 74 objects, mainly stone sculptures/fragments, a few bronzes, ceramics, stone rubbings and textiles. In researching their Khmer artifacts in 2020, the RJM’s investigations revealed that the sandstone head of a Vishnu sculpture very likely left Cambodia illegally in the 1960s and found its way to the museum via the art market. With stolen artworks from Cambodia finding a booming market in the West, Bangkok functioned as the hub for looted objects, and this is where the Vishnu head was purchased by Swiss collector Wilhelm Siegel in 1968. The object first came to the RJM in 1984 as a loan for the special exhibition The Timeless Portrait. At the time, co-curator and catalog author Piriya Krairiksh pointed out a strong resemblance to a vanished Vishnu from Prasat Bakong. Two years later, in 1986, the RJM purchased the head as part of a collection of Khmer and Thai sculptures. Since the museum reopened in 2010, it has been on display in the permanent exhibition. Following their provenance research, the RJM have identified that the Vishnu head did indeed match one stolen from Prasat Bakong in the Roluos Group and have been waiting for the appropriate post-Covid opportunity to return the head to its rightful home in Cambodia. A big pat on the back to the RJM for their proactive actions. The head of the deity Vishnu, sculpted in the early Bayon period of the late 12th century, is coming home.https://www.facebook.com/andy.brouwer.71<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Ms4Ax_flyZ6W9NqL1euCcg8TbNLle0VtPreWPvY111zHzO3Nsz5MgClrLMPd9Yj3ZDKPfFE8Gsm9ARLjbesNBGX5OSDtGDdiFF6IVJBJW-jgIHVYjWuw9FqmKq59y_kHcUPC_G0kt5yTilT2GIBdUelJJYFPe2WDo2CKdMi9XM2_Xkk3TOtWqNTxfw/s1600/khmer%20855%20%281%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="978" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Ms4Ax_flyZ6W9NqL1euCcg8TbNLle0VtPreWPvY111zHzO3Nsz5MgClrLMPd9Yj3ZDKPfFE8Gsm9ARLjbesNBGX5OSDtGDdiFF6IVJBJW-jgIHVYjWuw9FqmKq59y_kHcUPC_G0kt5yTilT2GIBdUelJJYFPe2WDo2CKdMi9XM2_Xkk3TOtWqNTxfw/s1600/khmer%20855%20%281%29.jpg"/></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNpr9EUcvWDKuQMGNJ2g_J2c7SAk4bnnxHpZlvq9LOvmKWMj7sTf1LeKL7XvzPLAnP073LwqUrIMidTq5VrL57xaTdu3eoHlXkY8ctK2M9qUKQNjcHNdYqo0cikjjiZ5OpUmcgVjDxJZG2l857GLDdmJBqOXM2zzIAiEZCu0OpFgDiyMGe-k22FqEk6Q/s1600/khmer%20855%20%282%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNpr9EUcvWDKuQMGNJ2g_J2c7SAk4bnnxHpZlvq9LOvmKWMj7sTf1LeKL7XvzPLAnP073LwqUrIMidTq5VrL57xaTdu3eoHlXkY8ctK2M9qUKQNjcHNdYqo0cikjjiZ5OpUmcgVjDxJZG2l857GLDdmJBqOXM2zzIAiEZCu0OpFgDiyMGe-k22FqEk6Q/s1600/khmer%20855%20%282%29.jpg"/></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYm0pB58LAAKNUr1Fq76sKdCi0J3PYmi2fLV0vpZ1IXC3i3UDI46olwiZF-FFIpKxr8p1oglPLmX5Kv-Hip7CW6VXZV50cA5DqloUy0IPPjU0WWH0pi_JDauru3CDNn0DcZ92DEyX38qEZ_JK8wIa5QqqGgSGhnzahf4Gh9LRHpCM6Pp4i87kA18p9Mg/s1600/khmer%20855%20%283%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="717" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYm0pB58LAAKNUr1Fq76sKdCi0J3PYmi2fLV0vpZ1IXC3i3UDI46olwiZF-FFIpKxr8p1oglPLmX5Kv-Hip7CW6VXZV50cA5DqloUy0IPPjU0WWH0pi_JDauru3CDNn0DcZ92DEyX38qEZ_JK8wIa5QqqGgSGhnzahf4Gh9LRHpCM6Pp4i87kA18p9Mg/s1600/khmer%20855%20%283%29.jpg"/></a></div> ARE NOT

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