Aschwin is Prince Bernhard's younger brother.∼He was a scholar of Chinese painting and sculpture Indian and curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He was a younger brother of Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld the noble. He was named after his maternal grandfather, Aschwin von Cramm-Sierstorpff. He was the second son of the morganatic marriage of Prince Bernhard of Lippe (1872-1934, until 1905 Graf und Edler Herr zur Lippe-Biesterfeld), a younger brother of the last reigning Prince of Lippe, Leopold IV, and Armgard Gräfin von Biesterfeld, born von Cramm (1883-1971). He grew up with his older brother Bernhard. The youth on the estate of their parents, Gut Recke Walde in the village Woynowo (from 1934 to 1945 also Recke Walde id Grenzmark), near the town Bomst in the province of Posen, later Boundary Mark Posen-West Prussia, went jovial. When Adolf Hitler came to power, Aschwin spoke openly supported the Nazis. He then became an officer in the Wehrmacht. He worked at the Department of Chinese painting from the Museum of Art Ostasiatische. In 1945 he left Germany and in 1949 he settled in New York as a research assistant at the Department of Far East of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Until his retirement in 1973 he remained employed here. He published regularly on Chinese painting and from the sixties on Buddhist sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
Aschwin is Prince Bernhard's younger brother.∼He was a scholar of Chinese painting and sculpture Indian and curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He was a younger brother of Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld the noble. He was named after his maternal grandfather, Aschwin von Cramm-Sierstorpff. He was the second son of the morganatic marriage of Prince Bernhard of Lippe (1872-1934, until 1905 Graf und Edler Herr zur Lippe-Biesterfeld), a younger brother of the last reigning Prince of Lippe, Leopold IV, and Armgard Gräfin von Biesterfeld, born von Cramm (1883-1971). He grew up with his older brother Bernhard. The youth on the estate of their parents, Gut Recke Walde in the village Woynowo (from 1934 to 1945 also Recke Walde id Grenzmark), near the town Bomst in the province of Posen, later Boundary Mark Posen-West Prussia, went jovial. When Adolf Hitler came to power, Aschwin spoke openly supported the Nazis. He then became an officer in the Wehrmacht. He worked at the Department of Chinese painting from the Museum of Art Ostasiatische. In 1945 he left Germany and in 1949 he settled in New York as a research assistant at the Department of Far East of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Until his retirement in 1973 he remained employed here. He published regularly on Chinese painting and from the sixties on Buddhist sculpture from South and Southeast Asia.
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Aschwin
Prinz zur Lippe-Biesterfeld
13 juni 1914 14 mai 1988
Simone Louise Marie-Antoinette
Prinzessin zur Lippe-Biesterfeld
9 mai 1915 21 nov. 2001
Translation:
Aschwin
Prince zur Lippe-Biesterfeld
13 June 1914 14 May 1988
Simone Louise Marie-Antoinette
Princess zur Lippe-Biesterfeld
9 May 1915 21 Nov. 2001
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