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“Ich habe einen Maler mitgenommen” – Archäologen, Künstler, Zeichner und Fotografen im Grabungswesen
Nach einem Gespräch über Zeichnung und Archäologie, das 2006 im MePri stattgefunden hat, handelt es sich bei diesem eher historischen Beitrag um eine weitere Nachforschung über den Zusammenhang von Kunst, bildnerischer Dokumentation und Archäologie. I. Eine Grabung zeichnen In einer Zeichnungsserie über die archäologischen Grabungen am antiken Hügel von Munbaqa in Syrien habe ich versucht […]
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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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On Cotman´s Trail in Normandy
John Sell Cotman is mainly known for his groundbreaking retinal and neoclassical approach to landscape painting which showed him as an early precursor of Cezanne. In contrast, his huge body of etchings enjoys a rather bad reputation. It is said that his printed works, which he mainly executed in commission of his patron Dawson Turner, […]
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Robert Weaver VI: Book Illustrations
“Weaver established the idea of the draughtsman being an equal to the writer of the text. He should have had a great influence on the world of text and image publishing, but for the most part, art directors and editors did not demand the kind of picture-writing that Weaver had in mind. In fact, few […]
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Münir Camli, Hamburg 23.10.2010 , Centrum Moschee / Neugraben Moschee (“Enzyklopädie Personae”)
Die “Enzyklopädie Personae”, ein `work in progress´ der koreanischen Künstlerin Kyung-hwa Choi-Ahoi, besteht mittlerweile aus 48 Din A 5 grossen Heften, in denen sie jeweils einen Tag lang Begegnungen mit Menschen aus ganz unterschiedlichen Zusammenhängen festhält. Am 23.10.2010 ist sie dem Imam der Centrum Moschee in Hamburg begegnet, dem Ort, an dem sie seit 1994 […]
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Burning Cetewayo´s house and other incidents of the British Zulu-War
– encounter with a Zulu – punitive expedition – death of the Prince Imperial – Special Artists setting fire on a Kraal – the corpse of the Prince Imperial- Queen Victoria´s return from the Highlands in mourning – in search of King Cetewayo – the pursuit of Cetewayo – Cetewayo´s treasures – ambassadors from King […]
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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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Recommended by Susan Turcot: Lili Rethi, organismic topographer (1894 -1971)
Nicht übersetzt: Much more than her precursor Joseph Pennell, young Viennese artist Lili Rethi was able to transform static architectural sites into energetic, vibrant organisms. The illustrations of the German version of Upton Sinclair´s Letters to Judd, an American Workingman (Briefe an einen Arbeiter, Leipzig- Wien 1932) already revealed her specific talent to praise the […]
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Robert Weaver V: Industrial Scenes II
The image of “Fortune” was deeply connected with a specific artistic American tradition of Social Realism. The Magazine was founded in 1939, in the era of the Great Depression and an art director like Leo Lionni, who was resonsible for the appearence of the magazine from 1940 on,updated this specific ethos by engaging illustrators like […]
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Melchior Lorck: Precursor of the “specials”
Nicht übersetzt: 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 […]