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Aquiring Cultures

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NEW PUBLICATION:

ACQUIRING CULTURES: HISTORIES OF WORLD ART ON WESTERN MARKETS

Edited by Bénédicte Savoy, Charlotte Guichard, Christine Howald  

Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2018

Based on a symposium in Berlin,  organized by the Institute for Art History in cooperation with the Centre for Art Market Studies at Technical University Berlin, the Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (CNRS) and the Labex TransferS (PSL) in Paris, the publication includes contributions by Felicity Bodenstein, Ting Chang, Manuel Charpy, Nélia Dias, Natasha Eaton, Noëmie Etienne, Jonathan Fine, Christine Howald, Philip Jones, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, Ying-chen Peng, Léa Saint-Raymond, Elodie Vaudry, and Masako Yamamoto.

Contents

Abendvortrag Prof. Dr. Timothy Brook

Zhang Zeduan (1085-1145), Along the River at Qingming, National Palace Museum, Taipei @ Wikipedia Commons


EVENING LECTURE

Prof. Dr. Timothy Brook, Vancouver, talks about:
Paintings and Prices: the Art Market in Late Ming China

Date: 09/12/2019, 6:15 p.m.
Venue: Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Museen Dahlem, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Lecture Hall, Takustraße 40, 14195 Berlin

Evening Lecture of the Forum Kunst und Markt / Centre for Art Market Studies at Technische Universität Berlin in cooperation with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ostasiatische Kunst e.V.

Abendvortrag PD DR. Waltraud M. Bayer

Liubov Popova, Composition with a White Half-Moon, 1920-1921, Gouache on cardboard, 33,5 x 27 cm, Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow. After Dmitri V. Sarabianov/Natalia L. Adaskina: Popova, New York 1990, p. 180.* 

EVENING LECTURE

PD Dr. Waltraud M. Bayer, Wien, talks about:
„From Russia with / without Doubt“:
Globale Netzwerke – Expertisen – Gerichtsprozesse

Date: 15/11/2019, 6:15 p.m.
Venue: Technische Universität Berlin, Hybrid Lab in the Villa Bell, Marchstraße 8, 10578 Berlin

The evening lecture is a part of the symposium „Objects on the Art Market: Original oder Fälschung – eine Frage der Expertise?” (Berlin, 15-16/11/2019)

*“Composition with a White Half-Moon” was mistakenly printed in an exhibition catalogue (1990), turned incorrectly on its side. A Stuttgart auction house offered a very similar work in 2007 for sale, which used the inverted image and added a second half-moon. The “twin” was not sold.

Dr. Alexander Hofmann

Shop of a Karamonoya (art dealer) in Osaka. Double page from volume 4 of the block printing book “Illustrated guide to the sights in the province of Settsu (Settsu meisho zue)”. Text: Akisato Rito, illustrations: Takehara Shunchōsai. First published by Morimoto Tasuke, Naniwa 1796-98, Block printed book 2nd h. 19th c.


EVENING LECTURE

Dr. Alexander Hofmann, Berlin:
Bausteine zu einer Geschichte des japanischen Kunstmarkts, ca. 1500 – 1900

Date: 01/07/2019, 6:15 p.m.
Venue: Room A 111, Architecture Building of the TU, Straße des 17. Juni 150/152, 10623

After the lecture we cordially invite you to an informal reception.

Programm.pdf Directions to Room A 111

Abendvortrag Dr. Uwe Hartmann

View into the central warehouse of the Kunst und Antiquitäten GmbH during its liquidation in 1990 @ Bundesarchiv

EVENING LECTURE

Dr. Uwe Hartmann, Magdeburg,  talks about:
Das Geschäft mit der Kunst in der DDR: Privates Sammeln, verstaatlichter Handel und die Enteignung von Kulturgütern

Date: 29/04/2019, 6:15 p.m.
Venue: Room A 111, Architecture Building of the TU, Straße des 17. Juni 150/152, 10623

Programm.pdf Directions to Room A 111

Abendvortrag Dr. Janina Nentwig

Unknown photographer: Große Berliner Kunstausstellung 1928, members of the hanging commission of the November Group with its then managing director, the art dealer Hugo Graetz (2nd from left), Berlinische Galerie © Berlinische Galerie


EVENING LECTURE

Dr. Janina Nentwig, Berlin,  talks about:
„Zwischen Enthusiasmus und Bratkartoffeln“
Die Novembergruppe und der Kunstmarkt 1919–1932

Date: 11/02/2019, 6:15 p.m.
Venue: Room A 111, Architecture Building of the TU, Straße des 17. Juni 150/152, 10623

Programm.pdf Directions to Room A 111