Picture atlas Art in the GDR

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The Bildatlas art in the GDR is an online - database of 1945-1990 in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR incurred painting . More than 20,000 works are documented in 165 collections in museums, companies, special depots and private institutions. The database is supplemented by an extensive collection of material on this art historical epoch .

Joint project

The picture atlas was developed as part of the joint project "Picture atlas: Art in the GDR" , which was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research from May 1, 2009 to October 31, 2012 as part of the "Translation Function of the Humanities" program. The aim of the research project was "20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent emotional debate about how to deal with the artistic legacy of the GDR" to record the various collections and depot holdings of paintings from the GDR, to document them with information on the provenance and to use examples to evaluate.

The heterogeneous mixture of museum acquisitions, state-financed purchases and cultural-political intended “transfers” had already led to incomplete lists in the GDR. Therefore, on the basis of archive research and interviews with contemporary witnesses, the “ways of the images” in the public collections should be analyzed. The inventory data of the museums and other collections should be networked for future cataloging and use of the works. Several conferences were held during the project.

Project partners were four institutions:

The project's internet-based database makes the research results publicly available. More than 20,000 works are recorded, and a personal database lists more than 2,500 artists working in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Due to problems with image rights , however, only some of the digitized works could be published online.

The exhibition Farewell to Icarus. Imagery in GDR - seen from October 19, 2012 to February 3, 2013 in the New Museum Weimar was the final presentation of the joint project. In the exhibition of the joint project and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar put together by Paul Kaiser and Karl-Siegbert Rehberg , the most extensive presentation of GDR art to date was realized and the image of the 1999 Weimar exhibition was revised.

literature

  • Karl-Siegbert Rehberg , Wolfgang Holler, Paul Kaiser (eds.): Farewell to Icarus. Imagery in GDR - seen in a new way. Accompanying volume for the exhibition in the Neues Museum Weimar, October 19, 2012 to February 3, 2013. Joint project Image Atlas: Art in the GDR / Classic Foundation Weimar. König, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-86335-224-0
  • Elize Bisanz, Marlene Heidel (ed.): Bildgespenster: artistic archives from the GDR and their role today. Transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2461-8
  • Marlene Heidel: Pictures out of plan: Art from the GDR and collective memory. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86732-218-8
  • Daniel Burckhardt, Matthias Speidel: Association database "Image Atlas: Art in the GDR" . In: Andreas Bienert (ed.) U. a .: Electronic media & art, culture, history: conference proceedings; the 18th Berlin event of the international EVA series Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts; 9-11 November 2011 in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin at the Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz. Ges. For the promotion of applied computer science, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-942709-01-9 , pp. 75–81, doi : 10.11588 / arthistoricum.163.206

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bildatlas Art in the GDR. GDR depot art and present history ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Project description, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , April 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.skd.museum
  2. ↑ Anna Littke and Anja Tack: context and aim of the research project "Bildatlas" , contemporary history online
  3. ^ "Image Atlas: Art in the GDR" ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Center for Contemporary History Potsdam , 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zzf-pdm.de
  4. ^ Rolf Lautenschläger: Stored GDR art: The red pop from the cellar , Taz , December 9, 2011
  5. ↑ The other modernity? Imagery in the GDR - Perspectives for a reassessment , bildatlastagung.wordpress.com , September 24, 2012
  6. ↑ Marlene Heidel: Pictures out of plan: Art from the GDR and collective memory. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86732-218-8 , p. 42 f.
  7. ^ Wolfgang Hirsch: GDR Art in Thuringia: In conversation with curator Paul Kaiser , Thüringische Landeszeitung , October 24, 2012
  8. ↑ Elize Bisanz, Marlene Heidel (ed.): Bildgespenster: artistic archives from the GDR and their role today. Transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2461-8 , p. 154 f.
  9. ^ Wolfgang Hirsch: GDR picture atlas: Thuringian museums present East German art , Thüringische Landeszeitung , April 19, 2012
  10. ↑ Julia Voss: GDR Art There were also artists east of the border , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 24, 2012