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Frederick and Potsdam
When Frederick the Great (1712-86) ascended to the Prussian throne, Potsdam was a small provincial town. But, by the end of his reign, it had risen both in population and prominence thanks to the construction of beautiful royal residences, foremost of which was the rococo Sanssouci Palace, whose grounds boast a UNESCO World Heritage-listed garden. Published on the occasion of the three-hundredth anniversary of Frederick the Great's birth, this book chronicles the city's rapid rise at the hands of the king. An ardent supporter of architecture and the arts, Frederick the Great dedicated himself to the beautification of Potsdam, commissioning artists and artisans from both home and abroad and seeking inspiration in the buildings he encountered in Italy, England, and France. This book brings together fifty full-color illustrations of the works he commissioned or purchased. Few European cities can be said to have been built so fundamentally to suit the ideas of a single ruler. Frederick and Potsdam: A City is Born thoroughly examines this "invention of a city."
Die Welt farbig sehen
Der Katalog bietet anhand zahlreicher Abbildungen und Texte einen umfassenden Einblick in Leben und Werk des Potsdamer Künstlers Siegward Sprotte (1913-2004). Vorgestellt werden über 160 Ölgemälde, Aquarelle, Gouachen, Tusche- und Federzeichnungen aus den Jahren 1929 bis 2003, darunter frühe Landschaften, Porträts, Hommagebilder, Reiseskizzen sowie Meer- und Wogenbilder. Sprotte kam bereits während seiner Ausbildung an der Berliner Akademie in Kontakt mit fernöstlicher Malerei. Während mehrerer Italien-Reisen studierte er darüber hinaus die Kunst und Maltechniken der Alten Meister, was ihm innerhalb der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts eine ungewöhnliche Position verschaffte. Abseits von gefestigten Stilen schlug Sprotte auf diese Weise einen von seinen Zeitgenossen unabhängigen Weg ein, der ihm ausdrucksstarke, stimmungsvolle Bildkompositionen schaffen ließ.0Exhibition: Potsdam Museum, Germany (14.4.-14.7.2013).
The Saved and the Damned
Thomas Kaufmann, the leading European scholar of the Reformation, argues that the main motivations behind the Reformation rest in religion itself. The Reformation began far from Europe's traditional political, economic, and cultural power centres, and yet it threw the whole continent into turmoil. There has been intense speculation over the last century focusing on the political and social causes that lay at the root of this revolution. Thomas Kaufmann, one of the world's leading experts on the Reformation, sees the most important drivers for what happened in religion itself. The reformers were principally concerned with the question of salvation. It could all have ended with the pope's cond...
Wilhelm Schmid and the November Group Embattled Paths of Modernity
In the wake of the revolution of 1918-1919, members of the artistic vanguard formed the November Group, an alliance of self-described "revolutionaries of the spirit" who made a radical break with traditional forms of art. In honor of the 100th anniversary of the group's founding, the Potsdam Museum has devoted an exhibition to this most prominent political artists' association of the Weimar Republic and to one of its leading figures, the cosmopolitan, painter, architect, and adopted Potsdam citizen Wilhelm Schmid. Schmid's years in Potsdam are closely associated with his early work, and here for the first time an extensive body of work from this phase is presented to the public. With its expressiveness as well as its affinity to the New Objectivity, Schmid's highly individual aesthetic brought him into contact with other avant-garde artists, whose creative search for a new formal language is also represented in the exhibition with an incisive selection of exemplary works. Numerous international lenders have made possible this dialogue between Wilhelm Schmid and artists including Georg Tappert, Arthur Segal, Moriz Melzer, Otto Möller, and César Klein.
The Emperor's Old Clothes
For many years, scholars struggled to write the history of the constitution and political structure of the Holy Roman Empire. This book argues that this was because the political and social order could not be understood without considering the rituals and symbols that held the Empire together. What determined the rules (and whether they were followed) depended on complex symbolic-ritual actions. By examining key moments in the political history of the Empire, the author shows that it was a vocabulary of symbols, not the actual written laws, that formed a political language indispensable in maintaining the common order.
Making Marvels
Featuring more than 150 treasures from several of the world’s most prestigious collections, Making Marvels explores the vital intersection of art, technology, and political power at the courts of early modern Europe. It was there, from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, that a remarkable outpouring of creativity and learning gave rise to exquisite objects that were at once beautiful works of art and technological wonders. By amassing vast, glittering collections of these ingeniously crafted objects, princes flaunted their wealth and competed for mastery over the known world. More than mere status symbols, however, many of these marvels ushered in significant advancements that have had a lasting influence on astronomy, engineering, and even international politics. Incisive texts by leading scholars situate these works within the rich, complex symbolism of life at court, where science and splendor were pursued with equal vigor and together contributed to a culture of magnificence.
Queen's Apprentice
This study seeks to examine a number of themes relating to the roles of the women's court of the central European Habsburgs. These include its role in helping consolidate their holdings in central Europe and the Holy Roman Empire and structure their relations with the rest of Europe.
Political Space in Pre-industrial Europe
Social and cultural studies are experiencing a 'spatial turn'. Micro-sites, localities, empires as well as virtual or imaginary spaces attract increasing attention. In most of these works, space emerges as a social construct rather than a mere container. This collection examines the potential and limitations of spatial approaches for the political history of pre-industrial Europe. Adopting a broad definition of 'political', the volume concentrates on two key questions: Where did political exchange take place? How did spatial dimensions affect political life in different periods and contexts? Taken together, the essays demonstrate that pre-modern Europeans made use of a much wider range of po...
Money and Finance in Central Europe during the Later Middle Ages
The wealth of the Central European archives, particularly in urban records, has not been fully realised by Western European historians. However, the records are not always straightforward to use and many studies tackle the methodological problems inherent in gathering and analysing medieval sources. This book presents an original review of past and present research of national historiographies on medieval financial history from Central Europe. Covering material ranging from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, it explores the eastern regions of the Holy Roman Empire, including Bohemia, Silesia, Austria and Germany, and extending to Poland and Hungary. The authors firstly discuss the mo...
Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy
Celebrated at the heart of a notoriously unstable period, the Vacant See, papal funerals in early modern Rome easily fell prey to ceremonial chaos and disorder. Charged with maintaining decorum, papal Masters of Ceremonies supervised all aspects of the funeral, from the correct handling of the papal body to the construction of the funeral apparato: the temporary decorations used during the funeral masses in St Peter?s. The visual and liturgical centre of this apparato was the chapelle ardente or castrum doloris: a baldachin-like structure standing over the body of the deceased, decorated with coats of arms, precious textiles and hundreds of burning candles. Drawing from printed festival book...
