Lot 195 Dα

Dr. H. W.Liebenschütz was born in Jakarta in 1934, his family having lived in Java for some years. His uncle, the renowned palaeontolo- gist and geologist, G. H. R. von Köningswald, had been living there since 1930 and made a number of significant discoveries of hominid fossils during his time in Java. Liebenschütz’s family left Java in 1939 and after WWII von
Köningswald moved to Utrecht where a chair of Palaeontology was created for him at the Rijksuniversiteit. Liebenschütz spent many vacations with his uncle in Utrecht during these years and his interest in non-western art developed with his uncle’s encouragement.

Image : Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Köningswald on the beach in the Netherlands with his wife, daughter, and his nephew, Hans Walter Liebenschütz, c.1955