Upper Engadin cultural archive

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Upper Engadin cultural archive

The Chesa Planta in Sameden, location of the Upper Engadin culture archive
The Chesa Planta in Sameden , location of the Upper Engadin culture archive
Archive type Cultural archive
Coordinates 46 ° 32 '4 "  N , 9 ° 52' 19"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 32 '4 "  N , 9 ° 52' 19"  E ; CH1903:  786,645  /  156577
place Sameden
Visitor address Chesa Planta, Samedan
founding 1988
scope 50,000 photo negatives, 20,000 postcards, 10,000 original letters, 5,000 photographs, 5,000 books, 4,000 architectural plans, 3,200 herbarium sheets, 3,000 drawings, 20,000 slides, 800 decorative stencils, 300 oil paintings and watercolors, 100 posters, numerous handwritten notes, etc. .
Age of the archive material from 1600
ISIL CH-001490-1
carrier Association of Upper Engadin Culture Archives
Organizational form society
Website www.kulturarchiv.ch
One of ten rooms in the Upper Engadin cultural archive

The Upper Engadin culture archive ( Romansh : Archiv culturel d'Engiadin'Ota ) collects documents on the culture of the Upper Engadine in the canton of Graubünden (Switzerland) and makes them publicly accessible. It is located in several rooms of the Chesa Planta in Sameden .

Broad collection activity

Letters, plans, photographs, drawings, paintings, posters, special books and other things are collected, such as B. three bobsleds from 1905. Hundreds of bequests and donations on art, architecture, language, music, natural history and economy have been taken over by the cultural archive since it was founded in 1988. Among the most important are the family estate of the Berry medical dynasty from St. Moritz , the photo estate of Gustav Sommer from Samedan, consisting of around 40,000 negatives, the Max Alioth estate from Basel and St. Moritz, the estate of the decorative painter Kaspar Donatsch from Celerina , the artist's estate of Elvezia Michel from Bergell and the extensive documentation on tourism, education and transport of the Gustav Pinösch family from Vulpera and Pontresina .

The breadth of the collection can be seen in other examples, such as the bequests of the butterfly observer Othmar Lesnik, the Celerin family who worked in Rome, the beer brewing engineer Gino Späth, as well as historical documents from the collector Guido Huder and the documents from the confectioner researcher Dolf Kaiser. The archive of the Hotel Maloja Palace , a documentation on Segantini , a collection of engravings by Andrea Flück or the literary estate and a film documentation on Giuliano Pedretti are also accessible .

Access

The directories of the cultural archive can be researched online, some in detail and some in summary form. Individual photographs are gradually scanned and added to the online inventory. Some landscape photographs can be viewed on the archiv-des-ortes.ch website.

Documents from the cultural archive are shown in temporary exhibitions on site and made available to other institutions.

History and sponsorship

The idea of ​​an Upper Engadine cultural archive arose in 1985 when the exhibition The Upper Engadine in Painting was being prepared . The art historian Dora Lardelli and the sculptor Giuliano Pedretti came across valuable, but also endangered documents in many Engadine houses. The Upper Engadin Culture Archive Association was founded in 1988 to support the institution. The Upper Engadine municipalities, the canton, the federal government, foundations and private individuals support the archive financially. The cultural archive has been located in the Chesa Planta, a patrician house from 1595, since 1991.

The cultural archive is operated by several part-time employees and numerous volunteers.

In 2013, the Swiss Society for the Protection of Cultural Property awarded the cultural archive a sponsorship award for its innovative project for the anniversary exhibition 25 years of the Upper Engadine cultural archive .

gallery

Examples from the collection of the cultural archive:

  • Elizabeth Main : Ice skating on Lake Sils

  • Fränzli music group near Sils, around 1900

  • Kulm meadow St. Moritz, around 1900

  • Hiking zoo with camel in the middle of St. Moritz, around 1890

  • St. Moritz vom See, around 1890

  • St. Moritz, around 1900

  • St. Moritz Dorf

  • Engraving by Champfèr

  • Samedan around 1930, with Chesa Planta

  • Johann Luzi Krättli in front of a 4,000-year-old Swiss stone pine

literature

About the cultural archive

  • Dora Lardelli: The Upper Engadin Culture Archive - a pioneering institution , in: Bündner Jahrbuch, Chur 2016
  • Karl Wüst: Upper Engadin culture archive in Samedan GR. “I never say no to inquiries” , in: There, where something is going on. 15 cultural sites in Switzerland , Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2016
  • The Upper Engadin culture archive celebrates its 25th anniversary , in: Southeastern Switzerland, July 22, 2013
  • Gion Gaudenz and others: 10 years of the Upper Engadin Culture Archive 1989–1999 . Samedan 1999

Published by the cultural archive

  • The Engadine on glass plates. Gustav Sommer 1882-1956 . Edited by the Upper Engadin culture archive. Montabella Verlag, St. Moritz 2015
  • Dora Lardelli: The Magic Carpet. Art trip to the Upper Engadine hotels, 1850-1914 . Edited by the Upper Engadin culture archive. A publication by the Institute for Cultural Research Graubünden ikg, Chur. Skira Publishing House, Milan and Geneva, 2010. Italian and German editions.
  • Publications of the cultural archive

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Online inventory
  2. ^ Archives of the place. Retrieved September 2, 2017 .
  3. ↑ List of own exhibitions and those with the participation of the cultural archive
  4. ↑ Employees. Retrieved September 2, 2017 .