Opening of the exhibition: FOLLOWING DAMASCUS ... Karl Ernst Osthaus and the Arts of the Islamicate World

WORDS OF WELCOME

THOMAS KUFEN, Lord Mayor of the City of Essen

PETER GORSCHLÜTER, Director Museum Folkwang

CHRISTINE REGUS, Secretary-General of the Cultural Foundation of the German Federal States

ANDREA FIRMENICH, Secretary-General of the Art Foundation North Rhine-Westphalia

NADINE ENGEL, Curator Museum Folkwang