Wednesday, 14th March, 7pm „Portraits of Distant Worlds: Expedition Painting between Ethnography and Art“ with Richard Kuba Richard Kuba discusses the role of painters on ethnographic expeditions with specific reference to the work of Alf Bayrle. Free.
WELTKULTUREN EVENING SCHOOL
“Freestyle” Text Training with artist and author Phyllis Kiehl Weltkulturen Education, Schaumainkai 29
Young people between the ages of 15-26 years are invited to write a new history of the museum. Objects from the collection are presented by the museum’s research curators who discuss the background and meanings of shadow puppets from Indonesia, animal sculptures from South America, and Maori tattoos. Creative writing sessions follow on from these presentations and encourage younger participants to write their own stories in different styles.
“Freestyle” 3 Wednesday, 21st March and Thursday, 22nd March, 6-9pm
“Freestyle” 4 Wednesday, 28th March and Thursday, 29th March, 6-9pm
No previous creative writing skills are necessary. Costs per double session: € 8. To register, email or call 069 212 35789.
PROGRAMME FOR CHILDREN AND SCHOOLS
Fieldwork with drawing workshop in the exhibition Weltkulturen Education, Schaumainkai 29
In the Weltkulturen Museum, young visitors can undertake their own fieldwork expedition and draw and document the objects on display. Workshops include learning to make stamps and stencils, clay modelling, painting, and performance.
Sunday, 11th March, 11am-1pm
Sunday, 25th March, 11am-1pm
For children aged 8-14years. Cost: € 6, including entrance to the exhibition. Prior registration necessary.
Family tours with workshop We invite the whole family to go on a fieldwork trip in the museum on every first and third Sunday in the month.
Sunday, 4th March, 11am-1pm
Sunday, 18th March, 11am-1pm
For families with children from 5 years onwards. Fee: 6€, accompanying adult 8€ including entrance to the exhibition. Prior registration necessary.
Saturday, 31st March, 3-5pm “Satourday: Facts, facts, facts“ How did writing develop? Why are there so many different forms of writing? We investigate different historical examples of the written word, attempt to write in hieroglyphs, and examine the international press. For children between 6-11 years. Free. Registration necessary.
Δ Portraits of Distant Worlds: Expedition Painting between Ethnography and Art
Until well into the late 1930s, painters were taken on countless expeditions and voyages of discovery so as to document the worlds encountered in foreign parts. Among them was Alf Bayrle, who in 1933 interrupted a promising artistic career in Paris in order to accompany an ethnographic expedition to Africa.
We do not know exactly what persuaded Bayrle to become an expedition painter. Did difficult financial circumstances oblige him to take on this apparently 'lowlier' work? Or was it the sense of adventure and the atmosphere of excitement and discovery at Frobenius's Institute for Cultural Morphology in Frankfurt? Or did he simply not see any difference between scientific documentation to order and the presumed artistic freedom of the visual arts and painting?
The lecture, which will be based around documentary slides from the period, will trace the almost unknown history of ethnographic expedition painting in Africa from its beginnings through to it being superseded by photography, and will discuss the conditions of production, the ideological background, and the artistic methods that this specific form of addressing the "Other" took.
Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37. Informationen on 069 212 45115. Free
Young people between the ages of 15-26 years are invited to write a new history of the museum. Objects from the collection are presented by the museum’s research curators who discuss the background and meanings of shadow puppets from Indonesia, animal sculptures from South America, and Maori tattoos. Creative writing sessions follow on from these presentations and encourage younger participants to write their own stories in different styles.
“Freestyle” 5 Wednesday, 18th April and Thursday, 19th April, 6-9pm
“Freestyle” 6 Wednesday, 25th April and Thursday, 26th April, 6-9pm
No previous creative writing skills are necessary. Costs per double session: € 8. To register, email or call 069 212 35789. Weltkulturen Education, Schaumainkai 29
Young people between the ages of 15-26 years are invited to write a new history of the museum. Objects from the collection are presented by the museum’s research curators who discuss the background and meanings of shadow puppets from Indonesia, animal sculptures from South America, and Maori tattoos. Creative writing sessions follow on from these presentations and encourage younger participants to write their own stories in different styles.
“Freestyle” 5 Wednesday, 18th April and Thursday, 19th April, 6-9pm
“Freestyle” 6 Wednesday, 25th April and Thursday, 26th April, 6-9pm
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