CFP: COLLECTING THE GERMAN RENAISSANCE
RSA, Berlin, March 26 - 28, 2015
Deadline: Jun 5, 2014
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Prince Albert famously collected German Paintings by his
near-contemporaries, the Nazarenes. Romanticism put Germany on the
artistic map of European collectors, and the Grand Tour began to include
the Rhine valley as a destination. The British interest in so-called
“degenerate” art has been amply explored, and in recent years,
collections of German art in Britain have been brought into the
spotlight by a series of exhibitions in which artists like Kurt
Schwitters have been foregrounded. Our panel, however, proposes to look
further back, and to investigate what interest existed – or did not
exist? – in the art of Renaissance and Early Modern Germany prior to the
19th century.
How was Renaissance and Early Modern German art perceived and received
outwith borders of German-speaking Europe? Was it collected by
contemporaries elsewhere in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and
how did this change in later periods? Did, for example, the Hanoverian
succession in Britain or German dynastical links elsewhere (Italy,
Sweden etc.) lead to an interest in German art at court and beyond – and
if not, why not? How did German Renaissance art fare in the collections
of antiquarian societies and new museums? And has German art of the
Renaissance and Early Modern Period been the focus of collectors and
exhibitions since? We welcome contributions from scholars whose research
takes in any area of relevance, and are particularly interested in links
to other art forms, like music, or the culture of dining, garden design,
or the decorative arts.
The panel organisers are
Dr Rachel King
Department of Art and Design
National Museums of Scotland
Chambers Street
Edinburgh EH1 1JF
Dr Ulrike Weiss
Museum & Gallery Studies
School of Art History
University of St Andrews
79 North Street
St Andrews KY16 9AL
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