Notes on Friedrich Spuhler

Friedrich Spuhler is one of Europe's most important rug Scholars particularly on Classical Carpets. Former curator of the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin. Spuhler wrote an excellent catalogue of the museum's carpet holdings, Spuhler, Friedrich. Oriental Carpets in the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin.

• 1977-1978 adviser in the establishment of the Carpet Museum of Iran in Teheran.
• Studied art and art history, at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, then in Berlin.
• Wrote doctoral thesis on so-called Polonaise Carpets.
• "Teppiche und Textilien" in Propylaen Kunstgeschicte, Vol 4, Die Kunst des Islam Berlin, 1973.
• Old Eastern Carpets, co-author with Hans Konig and M. Volkmann, Munich, 1978.
• Articles in Hall: Vol. 1, no. 3; Vol. 2, no. 2.
• "Uncomfortable Questions and Unknown Carpets from the Berlin Collection". Washington DC: ICOC 1980.
• Spuhler, F. Islamic Carpets & Textiles. In Louisiana Revy, 1987
• Spuhler, F. Textile Fragments / Textile Fragmente. 1988,
• Stack, L. The Pile Thread. Carpets, Velvets & Variations. 1991,
• Spuhler, Friedrich. "'Chessboard' Rugs" in Oriental Carpet and Textile Studies. Vol. 2. 1986. 261-269.
• Spuhler, Friedrich. "Bisat, c. Egypt: Mamluk, Ottoman, and Chess-Board Carpets" in The Encyclopaedia of Islam. 2d edition. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1980. Supplement, 138.
• Spuhler, Friedrich, Preben Mellbye-Hansen, and Majken Thorvildsen 1987 Denmark’s Coronation Carpets. The Royal Collections at Rosenborg Palace, Copenhagen.
• Spuhler, Friedrich Islamic Carpets and Textiles in the Keir Collection. Faber & Faber, London. 1978
• Photo with Beattie and Ellis

• For Further Reading:

Guide to Rugs & Books

La Miniature En Orient

Southwest Asia Time Line

Thanks and best wishes,

J. Barry O'Connell Jr.

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