Owning country houses in close proximity to their central places of activity was part of the self-image of the Berlin business elite in the German Empire. In contrast to the city residences as the heart of their business and social circles, the country houses were reserved for families and friends. The parts of the art collections presented there, offer us important clues to the cultural identity of the house owners, but their functional specificity has rarely been the subject of research to date. Due to their more private use, far fewer sources have survived on the interiors of the country houses and the display of the art works there than on the city houses, which were often open to the public. In the case of the Schenkendorf manor, the Mosse family only had a single photograph of the entrance area published.
By directly comparing the forms of representation of art and cultural objects in the country houses of leading Jewish and converted Berlin patrons, the workshop will attempt to identify patterns and common practices of the time that are useful for reconstructing the respective art holdings and collection concepts. The workshop is organized by the Mosse Art Research Initiative (MARI), which has been conducting provenance research in cooperation with the descendants of victims of Nazi persecution since 2017 as the first project funded by the German Lost Art Foundation to reconstruct a private collection. The workshop is funded by the Mosse Foundation (USA, Berkeley (CA). It is planned to publish the contributions and results of the discussion on the MARI portal.
Experts:
Dr. Meike Hoffmann (FUB, MARI, Leiterin)
Jan Thomas Köhler M.A. (Berlin, Helbing Art Research Project, Wiss. Leiter)
Merle von Mach (FUB, MARI, Stud. Hilfskraft)
Luisa Renée Mann (FUB, MARI, Stud. Hilfskraft)
Dr. Claudia Marwede-Dengg (FUB, MARI, Wiss. Mitarbeiterin)
Dr. Olaf Matthes (Hamburg, Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, Kurator)
Esther Sabelus M.A. (FUB, MARI, Wiss. Mitarbeiterin)
Nina Senger M.A. (Berlin, Kunsthistorikerin, Provenance Research)
Roger Strauch (USA, Berkley (CA), The Roda Group)
Dr. Manfred Uhlitz (Berlin, Verein für die Geschichte Berlins e.V., Vorsitzender)
Date / Time / Venue: 9/27/2024, 9:30am – 3:00pm (CET), Kunsthistorisches Institut / Freie Universität Berlin Koserstr. 20, Room A 163
Concept / Program: Dr. Meike Hoffmann
Workshop Language: German
Registration until: 9/20/2024
Registration: MARI@geschkult.fu-berlin.de
Source of this call: CONF: Sammlerinnen und Sammler des Berliner Mäzenatentums (Berlin, 27 Sep 24). In: ArtHist.net, 18.09.2024. Letzter Zugriff 18.09.2024. <arthist.net/archive/42659>.
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