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DHI Washington / Kunstgeschichte / Museum / Wissensgeschichte

Provenance Research and Attribution Knowledge of Ancient Middle Eastern Art

Until the 1990s, provenance research, or the history of ownership, was mainly conducted to determine the attribution and authenticity of an artwork. Provenance research grew significantly after the Washington Principles of 1998 and the accompanying increased awareness of the issues surrounding Holocaust-era art theft in Europe. Museums are also committed to documenting transfers of ownership … Continue reading Provenance Research and Attribution Knowledge of Ancient Middle Eastern Art

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Aktuelles / Ausstellungen / Bilderfahrzeuge / Kunstgeschichte / Museum

Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne

Exhibition. In the 1920s, Aby Warburg created his so-called Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, tracing recurring visual themes and patterns across time, from antiquity to the Renaissance and beyond. His approach provides inspiration for today’s visually and digitally dominated world. For the first time ever, all 63 panels of the Atlas have been recovered from Warburg’s original images and will be available to view in a special display at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin.

Archive / Germano-Fil / Geschlechtergeschichte / Kulturgeschichte / Museum / Quellen

Un séjour de recherche au Schwules Museum : allier l’engagement bénévole à la recherche

par Sophie Lespiaux Fondé en 1985 à Berlin-Ouest par quatre historiens et militants issus du mouvement gai des années 1970, le Schwules Museum est une institution réunissant un musée, des archives/bibliothèque et une revue scientifique sur l’histoire gaie, intitulée Zeitschrift … Weiterlesen →

Bilderfahrzeuge / Blog / Kunstgeschichte / Museum

A modern antiquity

Plaster casts are image vehicles par excellence. They can reproduce and multiply three-dimensional form, and serve the dissemination of visual ideas from one place to another; they can record lost stages of a work’s appearance, e.g. pre-completion, pre-damage, pre-destruction or pre-restauration. Often perceived as perfect one to one copies of the external form of a three-dimensional work, they can also accidentally or deliberately differ…