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Theodor Rocholl – The Broken Historical Painter
It was just always this swaying between a depressed mood and exaggerated self-confidence. This was always caused by the many years of dropping out of society. Something was bent inside me at the time and it never straightened up again. A certain dread of making new acquaintances always impeded me in an extraordinary way and […]
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Bilder aus Syrien
Not translated: Die Schilderungen kontinentaleuropäischer Stadtlandschaften und Alltagssituationen des niederländischen Künstlers und Archäologen Theo de Feyter haben wir bereits in einem zurückliegenden Beitrag vorgestellt. In seiner aktuellen Ausstellung in der Amsterdamer Galerie De Rietlanden Exposities, die noch bis zum 18. Januar 2009 zu sehen ist, zeigt de Feyter nun Arbeiten, die in den letzten Jahren […]
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The pictorial diary of Christiaan Andriessen (1805 – 1808) (Exhibition / Ausstellung)
The Amsterdam City Archive shows an extensive selection of the drawn diary of the Amsterdam artist Christiaan Andriessen (1775-1846). He drew in his diary nearly every day until 1 janury 1807, after which he made one drawing a week. You can follow the artists family life as well as his professional accompishments with his use […]
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Drawing in the Tube. In conversation with Thomas Zacharias [Drawing in the Tube Horst Moser in a Conversation with Thomas Zacharias.] (Horst Moser)
A Summary of the Interview Thomas Zacharias, born in 1930, taught at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich from 1966 on. After receiving the emeritus status, the artist, book author, illustrator, art historian, and photographer created a comprehensive oeuvre in sketchbooks. At times, Zacharias lived in London, where he created these drawings. Thomas […]
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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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The “Mitoyennetés aberrantes” project
“Mitoyennetés aberrantes” should probably be translated as “Aberrant neighbourhood”. It was conceived in october 2007 by Olivier Spinewine (drawing, photographing and filming reportage), Lionel Devlieger (text) and Alexia de Visscher (graphism). Eventually the project took the form of an exhibition and the edition of a zigzagfolder (download the pdf here). The concept evolved around French […]
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A Pre-modern History of the Culture of the Unfinished and the Discarded Drawing
The following text was commissioned by the Spanish artists magazine Centro de Bajo Rendimiento“ for proyecto editorial No.1, 2008 www.centrodebajorendimiento.com Special thanks go to Toni Crabb. I. Unfinished The first drawing ever published in a state of declared unfinishedness appeared on November 28th, 1891, in the globally distributed magazine „The London Illustrated News“. In his […]
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The Recorded Other: Ethnographic Drawing, 1800-1900
In 1800, the Swiss educational reformer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi found drawing to be “a general human matter,” “eine allgemeinmenschliche Sache.” This maxim is at once both a claim and a vision. Pestalozzi raised drawing to the rank of a fundamental anthropological fact supposedly preceding all ethnic, cultural, social, and professional differentiation. Seen before the backdrop […]
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From Berlin to Danzig [Excerpts from: Daniel Chodowiecki’s Drawn Account of a Journey from Berlin to Gdansk in 1773]
Sorry, not translated yet. Der Abschied. Nach monatelangen Reisevorbereitungen verabschiedet sich der Künstler am Morgen des 3. Juni 1773 von seiner Familie im Hof seines Berliner Hauses in der Brüderstrasse. Der Aufenthalt in Pyritz. Am Morgen des zweiten Tags erreicht er Pyritz, wo das kränkelnde Pferd anfängt zu lahmen. Während es von einem Schmied beschlagen […]