caption father house death_date mother birth_place death_place burial_place consort birth_date spouse issue image article_title name
aschwin of lippe-biesterfeld in 1961 prince bernhard of lippe house of lippe 14 may 1988 -lrb- aged 73 -rrb- armgard of sierstorpff-cramm jena , saxe-weimar-eisenach , german empire the hague , the netherlands oud eik en duinen , the hague no 13 june 1914 simone arnoux none aschwin zur lippe biesterfeld -lrb- 1961 -rrb- . jpg prince aschwin of lippe-biesterfeld
 prince aschwin of lippe-biesterfeld
prince aschwin of lippe-biesterfeld

prince aschwin of lippe-biesterfeld -lrb- 13 june 1914 -- 14 may 1988 -rrb- was an expert in chinese painting and indian sculpture and curator at the metropolitan museum of art in new york .
he was the younger brother of prince bernhard of lippe-biesterfeld .
aschwin was the second and last child of prince bernhard of lippe and armgard of sierstorpff-cramm .
he was born count of biesterfeld and grew up with his elder brother bernhard at their parents ' estate in the german village of reckenwalde -lrb- now wojnowo , lubusz voivodeship , poland -rrb- .
when adolf hitler came to power , aschwin openly supported the nazis and become a wehrmacht officer .
during the war , aschwin continued his education in east asian art .
in november 1942 he defended a phd at the humboldt university of berlin on the 13th century chinese painting `` bamboos and rock '' by li kan , and then worked at the department of chinese paintings of the museum of east asian art in cologne .
in 1945 he left germany , and in 1949 settled in new york as a research assistant at the department of far east of the metropolitan museum of art , where he worked until retirement in 1973 .
during those years he regularly published journal articles on chinese paintings and buddhist sculptures from south and southeast asia .
on 11 september 1951 , prince aschwin married simone arnoux -lrb- 1915-2001 -rrb- in london .
arnoux was french and was previously married to gottfried adam vollrat von watzdorf .
she had two children with von watzdorf , but none with prince aschwin .
after the birth of prince constantijn of the netherlands on 11 october 1969 , prince aschwin became one of his godfathers .
although bernhard cut off communications with nazi supporters , including his brother , their relationships resumed after the war .
in the 1970s bernhard persuaded aschwin , who was suffering from parkinson 's disease , to return to the netherlands , where he died in 1988 , aged 73 .
