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The Berlin Kunstkammer : collection history in object biographies from the 16th to the 21st century / for the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, edited by Marcus Becker, Eva Dolezel, Meike Knittel, Diana Stört, and Sarah Wagner ; translated by Adam Blauhut, Allison Brown, and Tom Lampert.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Museum objects--Germany--Berlin.
- Museum objects.
- Museums--Germany--Berlin--History.
- Museums.
- Art museums--Curatorship--Germany--Berlin.
- Art museums.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 280 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cm
- Other Title:
- Collection history in object biographies from the 16th to the 21st century
- Place of Publication:
- Petersberg : Michael Imhof Verlag, [2023]
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- Summary:
- "The Berlin Kunstkammer as such never existed. In the course of its long history, the electoral and then royal institution underwent continuous change. In dealing with the collection, the protagonists constantly reinvented the Brandenburg-Prussian Kunstkammer. This book takes an innovative approach to the multiple meanings of the history of the collection by examining the biographies of its objects. Like prisms, these holdings refract the history of the Kunstkammer from its beginnings around 1600 to the present day, showing the kaleidoscopic meanings attributed to artefacts and natural objects. The texts, written by authors from a variety of disciplines, trace the early history of Berlin's modern museum landscape and the differing paths that brought objects into the collections. The contributions present the results of a joint research project by the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin."-- Back cover.
- Contents:
- Objects, people, inventories : an approach to the Berlin Kunstkammer / Editors
- From palace to Internet : the virtual research environment of the Berlin Kunstkammer / Sarah Wagner
- Around 1600 : the Kunstkammer in the vault / Diana Stört and Sarah Wagner
- The wooden statues of Justus Bertram and his sister : tribute or objectification? / Marna Schneider and Diana Stört
- A drawing of an anteater : inspired by the collection / Meike Knittel
- 1685/1688 : the collection in the apothecary wing of the palace / Eva Dolezel and Diana Stört
- Crystalline gold from Sumatra : of wealth and exploitation / Meike Knittel
- Monkey hand and snake crown : demystified legends / Diana Stört
- 1696 vs. 1708 : expectations and experience, or, the promise of engravings / Marcus Becker
- Duquesnoy's Cupid carving his bow : artwork and authorship between garden and museum / Marcus Becker
- Bezoars : collection objects and remedies in one / Meike Knittel
- The wax figure of Friedrich III/I : the art of wishful anticipation / Horst Bredekamp
- Around 1740 : appropriations : the canon and visitors' journals / Marcus Becker
- A statuette of Priapus : men (and women) in the Cabinet of Antiquities and the Kunstkammer / Marcus Becker
- Antlers : the authentication of objects from the hunt / Meike Knittel and Diana Stört
- A shattered die : playing for dear life / Marcus Becker
- Perspectives on the collection.
- Changing focuses : highlighting, forgetting, reassessing / Sarah Wagner
- Canon and transformation : completing, comparing, competing / Meike Knittel
- The availability of things : substituting, copying, forging / Eva Dolezel
- Intact and damaged objects : repairing, replacing, discarding / Marcus Becker
- Display cases, boxes, labels : staging, storing, designating / Diana Stört
- Around 1800 : the Kunstkammer in transition / Eva Dolezel, Meike Knittel, and Diana Stört
- Eurasian Golden Plover ZMB Aves 13021 : an original from the Kunstkammer? / Meike Knittel
- The Adams mammoth : an object replaces a collection / Diana Stört
- Saxon freshwater pearls : portrait of the Prussian king as a pearl fisher? / Marcus Becker
- Around 1855 : the Kunstkammer in the museum : the path to a new collection landscape / Marcus Becker, Eva Dolezel, and Diana Stört
- Johann Michael Dobler's Night Clock : device and showpiece / Eva Dolezel
- Crab automaton from China : on forgetting and rediscovering / Eva Dolezel
- 1930 : retrospective under the Radio Tower : the exhibition as a medium of reconstruction / Sarah Wagner
- The Nautilus Cup from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century : from the shell in the cabinet to the cabinet in the shell? / Sarah Wagner.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-274) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783731912859
- 3731912856
- OCLC:
- 1396100112
- Publisher Number:
- 9783731912859
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