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Kiowa drawings, a goldrush diary and an illustrated travelogue (Recommended by: Ben Katchor)
16.6.2011 The Collections of the National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives include the Smithsonian’s earliest attempts to document North American Indian cultures, begun in 1846. Among the earliest ethnographic collections are the diaries of John Wesley Powell, which recount his exploration of the Colorado and study of the region’s Indians, and the pictographic histories […]
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The Lake Country-Sketchbook , June 23-July 18th 1863
In addition to a number of studies on the flora of the Lakes, two sketchbooks of Linton with landscape views have come down to us. One is in the collection of Yale University, another in the Linton-Archive of the Melton Prior Institute. The latter contains watercolours and drawings made during hikes in the North East […]
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Rebellious Landscapes – William James Linton´s art of graphic Macchia.
Lintoniana VI What had laid the foundations for Linton’s reputation as a leading proponent of artistic xylography in the 19th century was the extraordinary intensity of his landscape depictions and the graphic freedom that he allowed himself to this end. The apex of his decade-long landscape work was marked in the mid 1860s by the […]
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Suzanne von Borsody, Hamburg 18.02.2009 , Ernst Deutsch Theater ( Stück: Spurensuche) (“Enzyklopädie Personae”)
The series of drawings was made by the Korean artist Kyung-hwa Choi-Ahoi in the course of her “Enzyklopädie Personae”- project. Here she records the activities of the noted German actress Suzanne von Borsody behind the scenes of the Ernst Deutsch Theatre in Hamburg.
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Münir Camli, Hamburg 23.10.2010 , Centrum Moschee / Neugraben Moschee (“Enzyklopädie Personae”)
By now, the “Enzyklopädie Personae”, a work in progress by Korean artist Kyung-hwa Choi-Ahoi, consists of 48 notebooks ( size A5), where she records her encounters with people from various contexts. On October 10, 2010 she met the imam of the Centrum Moschee in Hamburg, where she lives since 1994.
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Illustrated Russia
These drawings were made on-site on a stay in Moscow and the provincial towns around from July 08 to August 09 of 2009. The series focuses on Russia as a country of dramatic transitions, on the contrast between the remnants of its czarist and Soviet past and the current signs of a new global capitalist […]
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Melchior Lorck: Precursor of the “specials”
New Release The projected monumental five-volume set (four of them are available now) by Erik Fischer is the first extensive monographic treatment of one of the most interesting artists of the 16th Century. Melchior Lorck, or Lorch, originally Loris, born in 1526/27 in the former Danish Flensburg, was a contemporary of Pieter Breugel the Elder […]
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Japanese prisoner-of- war camps
Four different artists give pictorial informations about their experiences in Japanese prisoner-of- war camps: The German lance-corporal Willy Muttelsee spent four years, from 1916 – 1920, behind barbed wires in the refined atmosphere of the exemplary Bando camp on Shikoku island. The Dutch illustrator Charles Burki (1909 – 1994) was arrested in camp Fukuoka close […]
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Ronald Searle, Fugitive
Among the many voices that paid homage to the ninty-years old cartoonist Ronald Searle, the one of film director Mike Leigh protrudes. In an essay published by Daily Telegraph Leigh, who is noted for his experimental methods of achieving realism in film, explains, how a book of cartoons, given to him at the age of […]
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Prison Camp Book , Ksar-es-Souk , 1944 – 1947
Because of its stylistic diversity, Heinz Zantis’ album is one of the most interesting examples of prison camp books in the collection . It was executed in the manner of a poetry album. Zantis was imprisoned in a special camp of the French government-in-exile for German non-commissioned officers in Ksar-es-Souk in Morocco from 1944 to […]