Follow-up 6. German Talk

Hello all,

thank you very much for attending yesterday’s talk about David Ferry’s exhibition. I hope you enjoyed our little trip into his surreal world, in which exotic fish invade ancestral homes and the great British landscape meets ‘The Great British Bake Off’.

As usual, please find below the exercise sheets which are free to download for everybody who is keen on brushing up on his or her German. Images are under copyright, and it is forbidden to distribute them any further and/or use them for any commercial purposes.

All the best and bis bald,

Karen

6. German Talk November 2018

PS: Anyone who would like to be added to the mailing list for German & French Talk-updates can email me on: kaw25@aber.ac.uk

6. German Talk, School of Art, 7/11/2018

When: 7th November 2018

Time: 5pm – 6pm

Where: School of Art, Gallery 1 & 2

Topic(s): David Ferry – The Ruin of Picturesque Britain – exhibition and vocabulary that might help during road trips in Germany

For more information about the German Talks and how to find us:

6. German Talk David Ferry Flyer November 2018

 

Follow-up 5. German Talk

Hello all,

it was great seeing you yesterday, and I hope you enjoyed the little ‘pop-up’- exhibition. While I was giving the presentation, I actually noticed some mistakes that I had made in the text. I hope I found them all now. Below, you find the corrected version.

As this talk was different from the usual format, I also include some photos; some of those who couldn’t attend last night were curious about what would be on show. Apologies for the bad quality of the images; considering that I work at the School of Art, I should’ve borrowed a proper camera rather than make do with my inadequate mobile phone….

The next talk will be on the 7th of November and in connection with one of the forthcoming exhibitions in our galleries. I’ll publish more information closer to the time in the usual places.

I always hesitate to take personal data of people, but if you would like to receive emails about future ‘German Talks’ (and ‘French Talks’, if you like), you’re very welcome to email me your email address on kaw25@aber.ac.uk and I’ll keep you updated.

Best wishes, und bis bald,

Karen

5. German Talk – Powell and German Culture – September 2018

Felix Mendelssohn music score ‘Antigone’ (first edition), 1842/3

Beethoven bust, plaster cast of Mendelssohn’s hand, Mendelssohn music score ‘Die erste Walpurgisnacht: Ballade fuer Chor und Orchester, opus 60’, ca. 1845

Sir Hubert von Herkomer, wood engravings from magazines and ‘The Woman and the Frog’, watercolour, ca. 1870-80

Joseph Wolf, wood engravings from magazines and ‘The Panther’, watercolour, 1874

Joseph Wolf, wood engravings from magazines

Johann Baptist Zwecker, wood engravings from magazines and ‘Iceland’, ‘The Troll’ and ‘Prince and Princess’, watercolours, ca. 1863-66

Johann Baptist Zwecker, ‘The Nautilus – A Dream in Fever’, watercolour, 1860s or 1870s

Johann Baptist Zwecker, ‘Boy on the Back of a Dragonfly’, watercolour, 1866, rock crystal casket that apparently contained a fragment of Schumann’s coffin

Wilhelm Kümpel/Joseph Wolf, ‘Young Bacchus and Leopard’, oil on canvas, ca. 1860s-1880, ‘Richard Wagner’, ‘Robert Schumann’, both chalk, both 1860s

Wilhelm Kümpel, ‘In the New Forest’, watercolour, ‘Bragi’ (Norse god of poetry), 1864, chalk

Wilhelm Kümpel, ‘Etretat from the from the North East’, watercolour, 1869

(Click on images to enlarge them.)

5. German Talk, 19th September 2018, School of Art

When: 19th September 2018

Time: 5pm – 6pm

Where: School of Art, room 206

Topic: ‘Powell & German Culture’

For more information about the German Talks and how to find us:

5. German Talk Powell and German Culture September 2018

Lens 2017 – 4th November 2017 – The National Library of Wales

Matter of Life and Death: An Exhibition of Photographs from the University Collection 16 May – 9 September 2016 at the School of Art Gallery, Aberystwyth University

Matter of Life and Death was an exhibition of black-and-white photographs from the School of Art collection at Aberystwyth University. About sixty photographs were selected for display by a group of School of Art undergraduates who were enrolled on the module Curating an Exhibition.

Karen’s Cabinet of Curiosities: April 2017

Curiosity: Rock crystal and enamelled silver casket

 

Origin: probably Vienna, Austria

 

Date: 2^nd half 19^th century (before 1882)

 

Maker: unknown/no maker’s mark

 

Measurements: ca. 14x12x9.5 cm

 

German Photographers Erich Retzlaff & Hans Saebens in the School of Art Collection

Back view of young girl with toy pram, Erich Retzlaff, ca. 1943, © Estate of Erich Retzlaff

Die Kinder wachsen zum Teil noch in die schöne Tracht hinein, Hans Saebens, 1936, © Estate of Hans Saebens

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AberForward: Charlotte’s contemplations on her first week

It’s currently week two of my journey in the AberForward programme, so I’m aware I’m a little late with my blog entries – I’m sorry! But being here, back in the place I love and where I was at my happiest, some thoughts have arisen.

New Erich Retzlaff donation – another treasure uncovered

© Estate of Erich Retzlaff

In November 2015, Dr. Anna-Claudia Guimbous, daughter of the photographer Erich Retzlaff (1899-1993), donated to Dr. Christopher Webster van Tonder and the School of Art Collection, over 1000 negatives and around 160 black and white vintage prints that she recently discovered stored securely in her basement. Dr. Guimbous has, along with her sister Bettina Retzlaff-Cumming, already generously donated a large number of vintage photographs by Erich Retzlaff to the School of Art Collection in recent years making our collection of Retzlaff’s work the largest outside of Germany and the second largest in the world. This new and important addition to the Collection includes portraits and landscapes from the 1930s and 1940s, examples of his innovative colour work, and an extensive number of Retzlaff’s post-war architecture, travel and landscape work.