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2008 Bourgeois Pride and Princely Splendour. Costumes from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century 20 April - 2 November 2008 daily 2.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. The exhibition presents important historic costumes from the collections of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, which were entrusted to the Abegg-Stiftung for conservation. Altogether twenty-seven garments reveal the high art of tailoring, elaborate decorations and fashionable thrills. Among the highlights are a sixteenth-century princely costume in several parts and a unique collection of seventeenth-century bourgeois upper garments. Man's doublet (detail) Probably Cologne, c. 1610-1620 Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, inv. no. Kg 93:19 Made of dark red silk this doublet is embellished with applied borders. To heighten the attractive, three-dimensional decorative effect even further slanted slashes were cut into the silk fabric in regular intervals. ©Abegg-Stiftung, CH-3132 Riggisberg, 2008; (Photo: Christoph von Virąg) |
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