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WiSe 19/20: Digitalisation of the Porcelain Collection of the Charlottenburg Palace

Annegret Bergmann

Information for students

The research seminar will take place in cooperation and support of Ms. Anette Mertens and Dr. Michaela Völkel, curators of the Ceramic Collection, Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation. For organizational reasons, some sessions in the collection will be double sessions (12-16h). Double sessions are planned for the October 24 and 31, November 7 and December 5. Final dates will be announced during the first class on October 17. close

Comments

In a newly developed state of the art online catalog, the porcelain collection of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation will be scientifically investigated and recorded for the first time. The seminar will deal with selected objects in this collection and latest research in the field. After visiting the collections in Charlottenburg and Oranienburg as well as the collection’s depot in Potsdam, the students will describe the objects selected by themselves, research the iconography and iconology of decor and ornaments and classify them scientifically. The research results will be presented in class and summarized in a paper as well as in short written contribution to the online catalog. close

Suggested reading

Vorbereitende Pflichtlektüre/Required preparatory reading (compulsory): - Schmidberger, Ekkehard, Nora von Achenbach, Lisa Klein, Cornelia Weinberger, und Landesmuseum (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel), Hrsg. Porzellan aus China und Japan: die Porzellangalerie der Landgrafen von Hessen-Kassel, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel. Kataloge der Abteilung Kunsthandwerk und Plastik 3. Berlin: D. Reimer, 1990. - Ströber, Eva. Symbols on Chinese porcelain: 10 000 times happiness. Stuttgart, Leeuwarden: Arnoldsche Art Publishers; Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, 2011. - Yang En-lin: „Chinesisches Exportporzellan fu¨r Europa im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert“, Forschungen und Berichte. Kunsthistorische und volkskundliche Beitra¨ge, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin -- Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Bd. 17 (1976), pp. 135-142+T10-T12. close