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World War I: Flanders III , “Kriegsbriefe”
At the age of over sixty, Theodor Rocholl ended his long career as a war artist taking part in the First World War. In his War Letters from the west front in Flanders, which were printed in 1916, he did not avoid describing fear and destruction. However, in the gouaches and watercolours of this propaganda […]
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World War I: Flanders II (Watercolours)
This portfolio with a small selection of watercolours, which Adolf Hitler painted in the course of his military service during World War I, was edited about 1935 by his official photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. It is assumed that Hitler was involved in the editing process. Even so, shortly after the appearance he withdrew and stopped the […]
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Album of landscapes from the theatre of war (1870), Berlin – Hamburg, 1871
The portfolio with a total of thirty-six large-format depictions of abandoned battlefields of the Prussian-French War was published in autumn 1871, approximately half a year after the French surrender. It was printed in four of Germany’s leading lithographic establishments, including W. Korn & Co. in Berlin and Charles Fuchs in Hamburg. The refinement of the […]
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CS: Neurological Research Laboratories: Monkey Experiments Bremen , University of Bremen; September 2003
The dispute over animal experiments between the Bremen Senate and the university is escalating. Because they are “ethically not justified”, the Bremen Senate intends to definitively ban brain researcher Andreas Kreiter from his controversial monkey experiments at Bremen University; the university, on the other hand, insists on the freedom of research and wants to take […]
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Local Court Hamburg Centre / Archive , 12 pencil drawings
A so-called job opportunity with extra compensation is what Hamburg draughtsman Henrik Hold owes his intimate insights into the Kafkaesque underground world of the local magistrate’s court. All the drawings were made on site in spring 2007. (Textem Verlag, Hamburg has published a book reproducing this series of drawings in duotone).
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Original Drawings and Print Versions in the MePri – Collections # I , 1812 – 1902
Drawings by Albrecht Adam, Hubert von Herkomer, Frederic Theodore Lix, William Simpson, Melton Prior, Joseph Pennell and their representations in the Pictorial Press.
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Sketches from the Department of Anatomy , October 1989 – January 1990
Some examples from a drawing cycle, made on location in a dissecting course of the Anatomy Department of Düsseldorf University at the end of 1989. “Except for a few sheets in DinA3 format, all sketches are drawn using 2B, 6B TK pens on DinA4 letter paper. With my drawing board hanging around me, I could […]
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Becheret Palmach , 1948/50
The book, published in a small edition in Israel in the early 1950s, is dedicated to the memory of the “Palmach” member Menachem Sofer. In 1948, during the Palestinian War, Sofer fought in this paramilitary unit of the Jewish underground organization “Hagana” and two years later became the victim of a lethal landmine accident.In his […]
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Tracing #2: News , 1997-2007
Reinhard Doubrawa arbeitet seit 1997 an seiner «News»-Serie, einer fortlaufenden Reihe von Freihandzeichnungen, die nach Fotos des Nachrichtenmagazins «Der Spiegel» entstehen. Die Motive rücken das globale Zeitgeschehen in den Blick und erscheinen von der Spiegel-Redaktion gefiltert und thematisch inszeniert auf dem Höhepunkt ihrer Aktualität. Spätestens mit der neuen Ausgabe werden die Meldungen und Berichte jedoch […]
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Tracing #1: «Superdocumenta» , 1994
«Superdocumenta» was created in the winter of 1994, on an invitation by Gunter Reski, as a contribution to the Hamburg-related text reader «Team Compendium – Selfmade Matches. Selbstorganisation Bereich Kunst», ed. by Rita Baukrowitz and Karin Günther. Initially supposed to be a written text on the actuality of the curatorial principle developed by Harald Szeemann […]