Prussian palaces, colonial histories : places, biographies and collections / edited on behalf of the General Director of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg ; editorial staff: Susanne Evers, Carolin Alff and Sylvia van der Heyden ; authors: Valerie Asiimwe Amani [and fourteen others] ; translation, Daniel Costello.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evers, Susanne, 1963- editor, contributor.

Alff, Carolin, editor, contributor.

Heyden, Sylva van der, editor, contributor.

Amani, Valerie Asiimwe, contributor.

Costello, Daniel, translator.

Schloss Charlottenburg, host institution.

Class of 1932 Fund.

Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg, issuing body.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Black people in art--Exhibitions.

Black people in art.

Palaces in art--Exhibitions.

Palaces in art.

Art--Germany--Prussia--Exhibitions.

Art.

Germany--Prussia.

Germany--Berlin.

Germany--Brandenburg (State).

Culture.

Intellectual life.

Genre:

Biographies

History

Physical Description:

167 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[Dresden] : Sandstein, [2023]

Summary:

"The former palaces and gardens of the Hohenzollern dynasty make Germany's colonial past visible and tangible today. Attesting to this history are an 18th century portrait of a young Black boy, possibly Fredrick Ludwig (1708 - Date of death unknown), whose father was brought to the Berlin royal court through the slave trade. Another example are the glass beads produced on Peacock Island that were used to purchase slaves and colonial trading goods. With a special exhibition at Charlottenburg Palace, the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (SPSG) is facing the colonial histories of its collections. Colonial practices and structures can be traced throughout earlier centuries, before German colonialism of the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as afterwards. In this light, the special exhibition is looking to explore the connection between Germany's longer colonial history and how they persist today. Based on the scant information that has been preserved over time, the special exhibition attempts to reconstruct the biographies of people after they were forcibly brought to Berlin and Potsdam. These biographies highlight both the ways they were able to socially assimilate and how they resisted the conditions of their lives at court. In addition, the exhibition examines non-European works in the collections that have long been interpreted within strictly European frameworks. As a result, these works were culturally re-appropriated and alienated from their original uses" -- https://www.museumsportal-berlin.de/en/exhibitions/schloesser-preussen-kolonial/ viewed April 12, 2024.

Notes:

Catalog for an exhibition held at Charlottenburg Palace 4 July to 31 October 2023.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-167) and index.

Local Notes:

On the occasion of an exhibition held at Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg, July 4 - October 31, 2023.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9783954987382

3954987384

OCLC:

1418749366