Maréorama
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The Mareorama was a monumental, at the Paris World Exhibition of 1900 shown Mediterranean - Panorama of the poster and special effects artist Hugo d'Alési .
It was not a static, fixed panorama that was viewed by the visitors of the world exhibition like a picture in a museum, rather the viewer entered a building on the Champ de Mars , in which the deck structure of a 70 m long steamship was reproduced. This replica ship had a gimbal bearing and could be moved by a hydraulic mechanism so that ship movements such as rolling , pitching and yawing caused by waves could be realistically reproduced.
On both starboard and port side , a huge panorama picture, wound on a roll, was moved past, showing the highlights of a boat trip through the Mediterranean from Nice and the Riviera , via Sousse , Naples and Cape Posillipo to Constantinople . Smells of tar, lighting effects and staff dressed as stewards reinforced the illusion of being on board a steamer on the high seas, so that effective provision was made for the possibility of visitors becoming seasick . The demonstration lasted half an hour and up to 700 visitors were able to comfortably and safely gain an impression of such a trip that was felt to be realistic at the time.
The two panorama pictures were each 750 m long and over 12 m high. It took a large team of painters 8 months to complete it, according to the artist's sketches, to fill the almost 20,000 m 2 picture area. The cylinders on which the pictures were rolled up were extremely heavy and therefore supported on floats. As it rolled out, the canvas hung on hooks attached to a treadmill.
The artist was awarded the Legion of Honor for his work .
literature
- The Mareorama at the Paris Exposition. In: Scientific American Vol. 83 (1900), p. 198, doi : 10.1038 / scientificamerican09291900-198 .
- Bernard Comment: The Panorama. Reaction Books, London 1999,168, ISBN 1-86189-042-7 , p. 74.
- Thomas Kuchenbuch: The world around 1900: entertainment and technology culture. JB Metzler, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-476-00829-0 , pp. 6-7.
- Stephan Oettermann: The Panorama: History of a Mass Medium. Zone Books, New York 1997, ISBN 0-942299-83-3 , pp. 179-181.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rolf Schuller: Hugo d'Alési . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 2, Seemann, Leipzig 1986, ISBN 3-363-00115-0 , p. 256.