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Jan Vegter´s biographical documentary “Meppel, an odd year ” (ca. 1992 – 1995) (Exhibition / Catalogue)
Jan Vegter´s sensitive drawing series Meppel, een raar jaar (‘Meppel, an odd year’) covers the beginning of WW II in the Netherlands, the German invasion, the bombardment of Rotterdam and the first days of the occupation. This brillant biographical body of work, consisting of fifty-one plates, is on show for the first time in the […]
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The Nuremberg Diary (A Father and Son Project)
Haejun Jo has lived in Nuremberg between 2009 and 2011. He has gathered his observations and experiences, especially stories connected to Albrecht Dürer, and has written them down in the form of dialogues. These he sent to his father Donghwan Jo in Korea who translated them into a pictorial version.
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Jan Vegter´s art of processing memory. A biographical sketch.
Nicht übersetzt: Jan Vegter was born March 29, 1927, in Voorburg (The Netherlands). He died there in 2009. Almost his entire life he lived in this small town near The Hague. Jan got his education as an artist at the Royal Academy at The Hague from 1945 till 1950. One of his teachers was Willem […]
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Meppel, an odd year (Meppel, een raar jaar), ca. 1992 – 1995
After his retirement as a drawing teacher in 1992 Jan Vegter (1927-2009) started to work intensely on the visualization of his memories of crucial periods of his life. To focuse his memory performance he decided to build detailed scale models of certain technical and topographic conditions. This amazing series was the first example of his […]
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Travelling through Hotel Turgot by cuts. The Art of Wendelien Schönfeld.
Nicht übersetzt: One rainy afternoon at a friend’s house in Amsterdam I saw a book with a series of colour woodcuts. In the woodcuts the rooms, garden and façades of a former private hôtel in Paris were depicted. In the first print I saw the front door, in the second I entered the building. I […]
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Algerischer Guerillakrieg I: Auguste Raffet & Horace Vernet – Dynamisiertes Massenbild und Kunst der Rekonstruktion
Bildberichte vom algerischen Guerillakrieg I Die Okkupation Algeriens war noch im Juni 1830, nur wenige Wochen vor dem Zusammenbruch des bourbonischen Restaurationsregimes, von Charles X mit der Einnahme Algiers eingeleitet worden. Die bourgeoise Julimonarchie unter Louis-Philippe fremdelte anfangs zwar ein wenig mit dieser Erbschaft, es stellte sich jedoch schnell heraus, dass der koloniale Raubzug nicht […]
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Retraite De Constantine / Prise De Constantine
“Retraite de Constantine” was one of the most widespread examples of Auguste Raffet´s series of annual lithography albums. It was published in spring of 1837 by Gilhaut Freres and gives an account of the first failed attempts at conquering the Algerian fortress. The ignominious retreat of the French army in November 1836 was mainly blamed […]
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“… The World Was Becoming Numerical.” Informationsgraphik und Kunst in den Kartenbildern von Dierk Schmidts “Die Teilung der Erde”
Informationsgraphik und Kunst in den Kartenbildern von Dierk Schmidts „Die Teilung der Erde“ Der Essay ist Teil der umfangreichen Projektdokumenation “Dierk Schmidt: The Division of the Earth – Tableaux on the Legal Synopses of the Berlin Africa Conference.” Edited by Lotte Arndt, Clemens Krümmel, Dierk Schmidt, Hemma Schmutz, Diethelm Stoller, Ulf Wuggenig, englisch / deutsch, […]
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Graphic echolocations of societal relevant spaces – In conversation with Jan Rothuizen on his soft maps and reports.
Nicht übersetzt: Dutch artist Jan Rothuizen has developed a very special and entertaining kind of topographical journalism, which allows him to leave the usual platforms of the art circuit behind. MePri: You have been making this kind of supra-factual or “soft”- cartographies since 2005 in various international megacities: Guangzhou, Cairo, Beirut and in your native […]
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Heinrich Ehmsen: künstlerischer Zeuge der Münchner Revolutionstage
Meine Beschäftigung mit Heinrich Ehmsen begann Ende der siebziger Jahre während des Studiums an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in München. In einer Arbeitsgruppe, die das Ziel hatte, die Bildproduktion während der Münchner Räterepublik zu erforschen, übernahm ich die Recherche zum Thema Reportagezeichnungen. Sehr schnell kristallisierte sich Ehmsen als der wichtigste Künstler heraus, der mit […]