On Saturday, 27 November 2021, at 14.00 the Rundāle Palace Museum invites to an online lecture ‘Seeing, drawing, writing. Travelling as part of an artist’s education on the example of Baltic German artists’ by Estonian art historian Liisa-Helena Lumberg. This lecture will take place in connection with the exhibition ‘The Princess of Courland Travels. Fanny Biron’s watercolours and drawings’, which presents the work of Fanny Biron (1815–1888) – an amateur artist and the great granddaughter of the commissioner of the Rundāle Palace’s construction Duke Ernst Johann of Courland.
The lecture is focused on Baltic German (male) artists in the first decades of the 19th century who travelled to Europe in order to enhance their education and artistic practice. Artists such as August Matthias Hagen, Gustav Adolf Hippius, Otto Friedrich Ignatius, and August Georg Wilhelm Pezold produced drawings and diaries while travelling west, as was customary. Their travel materials form an interesting example of their values and endeavours from two centuries ago. Author argues that their drawings and sketches both performed as agents that mediated places and people to later observers, and participated in the artists’ identity construction.
Liisa-Helena Lumberg is a lecturer and a PhD student at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture of the Estonian Academy of Arts. In her dissertation, she focuses on Baltic German art and art history writing as means of knowledge production in the first decades of the 19th century.
The lecture will be in English. This is an online event, hosted on Zoom. Registration is requested: izglitiba[at]rundale.net.
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Supported by Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonds