Kraftfigur aus der Yombe-Region, Anonymus, Dem. Rep. Kongo, 2.Hälfte 19. Jhd.

In 19th century Europe, African works of art were still seen, at best, as curiosities. It was the German explorer Leo Frobenius, who at the end of the century was one of the first to recognise the aesthetic appeal of African wood-carvings. His discovery was closely followed by that of the artists of the avant-garde. ..

 

Portrait eines Mannes aus Shirati (heutiges Tansania), ca. 1910. Fotograf: Dr. Robert Lohmeyer. Bildarchiv SMfV

In Munich, for example, Kandinsky, Macke and Marc were regular visitors to the Völkerkunde-Museum (Museum of Ethnology) and were clearly inspired by the African exhibits. It took several decades before the exceptional creations of traditional African art were able to find their place in the Western world of art. Now, at last, they are given full respect in their own right on the global stage. The excellent craftmanship of the artists is highly admired and the innovative design, often achieved through the abstraction and reduction of form, gives rise to great fascination.

 

 

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 08 May 2010 @ 9:56 AM 
James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific
28 August 2009 – 28 February 2010
catalogue of the travelling exhibition :
0500515166 James CooPorträt James Cookk and the Exploration of the Pacific ~ Adrienne L. Kaeppler
Zoom Nathaniel Dance
Captain James Cook (1728-1779)
London 1776,© National Maritime
Museum, Greenwich, London
The British navigator and explorer James Cook (1728–1779) is famous for having led three expeditions into the vast and uncharted waters of the Pacific Ocean. He was the first to survey and map New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific islands, completing our modern image of the world and refuting once and for all the existence of a mythical Southern Continent.
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 03 Nov 2009 @ 3:40 PM 
 

Power

 

Power Exhibition in Germany :

In many societies power is based on knowledge, experience, merit, and loyalty. Yet power is more Janus-faced than virtually any other phenomenon. The taking of human life in order to seize or retain power is an extreme form of expression which manifests itself most brutally during wartime. Religion has often served power, and relationships based on exchange have stabilised power structures. Indeed, trade and religion have often not only supported the status quo, they have aided and abetted, even embodied, the darker aspects of the ruling forces. Power has also always made use of art, and artists have taken power as their theme – either critically or commissioned by the powerful themselves.

From an Ethnological to a Historic Approach: The Chokwe

Figure of Chibinda Ilunga, Angola, Chokwe, 19th Century; Ethnologisches Museum, SMB. Photo: Claudia ObrockiFigure of Chibinda Ilunga, Angola, Chokwe, 19th Century; Ethnologisches Museum, SMB. Photo: Claudia Obrocki

The Chowke today live in north-western Angola and in the south-west of the Democratic Republic of Congo.The end of the slave trade in the first half of the 19th century, which had connected Africa, Europe, and America in a tight net of trade for several centuries, entailed a deep economic cut for the peoples living on the shores of Western Africa. Many communities of huntersand of refugees from the slave hunts came to wealth and political power through trade with products like Ivory and bees wax. Only in this process their identity as Chokwe emerged. Their political and economic expansion soon threatened long-established political organisations like the neighbouring kingdom of the Lunda. The numerous competing and trading leaders also bolstered their claim to power by promoting artistic expression. Chokwe artists integrated stylistic elements of the neighbouring African peoples and the Europeans into their own art and thus developed one of the most impressive styles of art of the African continent.

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