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Cairo, Ahmad Ibn Tulun Mosque - 100 Motives Mukalla, Fish market - 100 Motives Takht-e Soleyman, 1958 - 100 Motives Mosque in Wuensdorf, Brandenburg, south of Berlin - 100 Motives Mehmet II. Fatih (1432-1481CE, reigned 1444-1446, 1451-1481 CE) - 100 Motives Tile fragment with Harpye / Siren - 100 Motives Konya, Ince Minare Medrese, portal - 100 Motives Palestinian poster in Ramallah - 100 Motives Persepolis, Apadana, stairs - 100 Motives Tabriz, Museum, Silver plate with double headed eagle  - 100 Motives Hospital opening ceremony on April 1, 1955 with Nabib In the middle, right next to him is probably the British advisor, Colonel ... - 100 Motives Doha, Museum of Islamic Art - 100 Motives Jebel Al Baba - 100 Motives Marrakesh, door knocker - 100 Motives Qur'an Bifolium - 100 Motives Cross - 100 Motives Najaf, Mosque, portal - 100 Motives Riad Zina, Marrakesh - 100 Motives Shiraz, Nagarestan Palace, relief with lion depiction - 100 Motives Reconstruction of the skulls of Dmanisi, Georgia - 100 Motives Jabel Al Uqla - 100 Motives Istanbul, Fethiye Cami / Mosque (former Hg. Pammakaristos) - 100 Motives Mukalla, school class for boys, 1950s - 100 Motives Isfahan, Hesht Behesht, dome - 100 Motives Potsdam, Friedenskirche - 100 Motives Group of men, Shibam, Hadramawt - 100 Motives Merv, Camels - 100 Motives Beysehir, Esrefoglu Cami / Mosque - 100 Motives Shibam, schoolboy parade on the occasion of the hospital opening in 1955 - 100 Motives Star tile, rich dressed man - 100 Motives Shisr - Ubar  - 100 Motives Istanbul, Beyoglu, Istiklal Cad. - 100 Motives Qur'an Bifolium - 100 Motives Cigarette advertisement, 1950s - 100 Motives Kaschgar, Abakh Hoja Moschee - 100 Motives Katharina Otto-Dorn (1908-1999) - 100 Motives Potsdam, Steam machine house (Mosque) - 100 Motives Doha, The Pearl - 100 Motives Istanbul, Dolmabahce Cami - 100 Motives Star tile, snacking bear - 100 Motives Camel near the road Salwa - Al-Hufuf, KSA, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - 100 Motives Magnetometer measurements  - 100 Motives Istanbul, Dolmabahce Cami - 100 Motives Cairo, Al-Azhar Mosque - 100 Motives Monreale, Cathedral Santa Maria Nuova - 100 Motives Zayed Heritage Center - 100 Motives Kaiser Wilhelm II. and Mehmed V.  - 100 Motives Marrakesh, Kutubiya - 100 Motives Two camels, Qatar - 100 Motives The Doha Hind - 100 Motives Kelim, Grand Bazar / Capali Carsi in Istanbul - 100 Motives Kashan, Masjid - Madrasa Aqa Buzurq, door knocker - 100 Motives Salif, Tihama, Yemen - 100 Motives Fez, Bread seller - 100 Motives Potsdam, Steam machine house (Mosque), detail  - 100 Motives Mathaf - Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha - 100 Motives Male Mummy portrait, late antiquity l  Portrait of Fayoum. Egypt, Antinoopolis, 225-250 AD

Encaustic on wooden panel, 42.7 x 23 x 0.9 cm - 100 Motives Dome of the Rock  - 100 Motives Melike Hatun Cami, Ankara - 100 Motives Salif, grosser Haifisch, dicht an der Mole gefangen, 9.11.55 (von Prosch); huge shark, caught next to the pier - 100 Motives Dolmus in Yemen - 100 Motives Manama , Gold Souk / Suq - 100 Motives Pisa Griffin - 100 Motives Sana'a/ Sanaa, Hospital - 100 Motives Bronze Lion - 100 Motives Kashgar, Abakh Hoja Mausoleum - 100 Motives Turk in European dress - 100 Motives "Maria lactans" - 100 Motives Simit seller - 100 Motives Doha, The Pearl - 100 Motives Young camel in Shahaniya, Qatar - 100 Motives Genete Mariam Church, Priest - 100 Motives Atatuerk Flag - 100 Motives Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem - 100 Motives Takht-i Sulaiman - 100 Motives Jerusalem - 100 Motives Marrakesh - 100 Motives Kaschgar - 100 Motives Gazelle in Abu Dhabi - 100 Motives Old man in north east Turkey (Tao Klarjeti) - 100 Motives Konya, Ince Minare Medrese - 100 Motives Beysehir, Esrefoglu Cami - 100 Motives Sheikh Zayed b. Sultan Al Nahyan (1918-2004)  - 100 Motives Fountain in Anatolia, Turkey - 100 Motives Mathaf - Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha - 100 Motives Old Uighur at the Bazar in Khotan - 100 Motives Ankara, Alaeddin Cami,  Minbar - 100 Motives Dome painting of an Ottoman mosque in western Turkey, 19th century - 100 Motives Isfahan, Maydan-e Shah/ Imam with Shaikh Lutfullah Mosque - 100 Motives Edfu, Horus Temple - 100 Motives Yerevan, sculpture by the Columbian artist Fernando Botero (1932 - 2023)  - 100 Motives Tankard, Iznik Ceramic - 100 Motives Lake Pyramid  - 100 Motives Bukhara, Cheshme Aiyub - 100 Motives Camels in Shahaniya, Qatar  - 100 Motives Potsdam, Friedenskirche - 100 Motives Marrakesh, woven 'carpet', Kelim - 100 Motives Konya, Karatay Medrese, Portal - 100 Motives Ethiopian Priest  - 100 Motives Arbaquh, Yazd Province, Tomb Tower, Gunbad-i Ali - 100 Motives

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Ernst Cohn-Wiener (1882-1941)

Ernst Cohn-Wiener (until 1907 Cohn), born in Tilsit in 1882, was a versatile art historian who not only dealt with European, Jewish and Islamic art history, but also researched and published on Asian art in general. In particular, his 1930 published work on the architecture of Central Asia in Islamic times is known in professional circles (Turan: Islamic architecture in Central Asia, Berlin 1930), which still has lasting value because of the numerous good photographs from the 1920s. 

Because of his Jewish origin, Ernst Cohn-Wiener had to leave Germany after a ban on his profession in 1934. Via England he went to India, where he found employment with the Maharaja of Baroda until 1939 (in the National Picture Gallery). From there he emigrated to the United States in 1939, and died in 1941 in New York, not yet 60 years old.

Today largely forgotten, not even a portrait of him was accessible until recently. The photo presented here is due to the architect Ruslan Muradov from Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, who discovered it with descendants of a Russian researcher who worked together with Cohn-Wiener in Central Asia.