Jacques-Edouard Berger (1945-1993), art historian, lecturer, organiser and accompanier of
cultural trips
to Europe (
Italy
-
Germany
-
Austria
-
Spain
-
Portugal
-
England
-
France
-
Switzerland
),
Turkey
,
Egypt
,
United States
,
India
,
Indonesia
and Far East (
Japan
-
China
) had brought back over 100,000 pictures, for purposes of courses and lectures (
'
On Behalf of Art
'
) , was also a passionate collector of Art. After his death, the Fondation Jacques-Edouard Berger deposited his very important collections with the City of Lausanne (Switzerland) with a view to their installation in the
Musée de design et d'arts appliqués contemporains
(
mudac
). The collections are presented at the mudac by means of exhibitions on a rotational basis. One gallery is dedicated to ancient
Egyptian art
(
Predynastic Period
-
Old Empire
-
Middle Empire
-
New Empire
-
New Empire & Late Period
-
Late Period
-
Late & Greco-Roman Period
-
Greco-Roman Period
-
Coptic Period
-
19th Century
) while two other rooms present objects from Asia, for the most part
Chinese
(
Shang Dynasty
-
Dynasty Western/Estern Zhou
-
Warring States Period
-
Han Dynasty
-
Wei Dynasty
-
Six Dynasties Period
-
Tang Dynasty
-
Song Dynasty
-
Yuan and Ming Dynasties
-
Qing Dynasty
-
20th century
) but also
Indian
(
12th-17th century
-
18th-19th century
-
19th century
-
20th century
),
Tibetan
,
Japanese
,
Burma
,
Indonesia
,
Cambodia
,
Thailand
and
Nepal
.
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