Museum of East Asian Art in Cologne this year celebrates its 100th anniversary, the cathedral city and makes the Institute a valuable gift: the 1,000 year old Chinese marble figure of a "Lokapala. The guard king angry face, heavy armor and stately grandeur of 1.22 meters should keep at a Buddhist temple evil spirits from the shrine and flanked at the time, along with other marble guards the central cult image. The quality of the chisel technique Lokapala-figure and her realistic yet soft style can probably derived from the Chinese province of Shaanxi suspect where it originated during the Tang Dynasty in the 9th or 10th century.
could Supported by the Cultural Foundation of the countries of the Orient Foundation and the Art Foundation North Rhine-Westphalia buy the city of Cologne, the precious stone sculpture over London art trade from a Taiwanese private collection now for its museum. Thus, the guardian figure, a gap in the Germany's most important collection of early Chinese stone sculptures from the 6th to 8th century and later wooden sculptures from the 11th to the 12th century. With her detailed, accurate representation and remnants of the former painted in green, red and blue is the sculpture Lokapala a particularly well preserved masterpiece that draws the viewers in their tracks: "You can think of their presence difficult to avoid. The words of the young body practically demands on you to avoid them and mitzuvollziehen its momentum, "enthused Lothar Ledderose, director of the Institute of East Asian art history at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, in his opinion.
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