Ordering Colours in 18th and early 19th century Europe
If you would like to join the discussion, please send a note to Tanja Kleinwächter until March 7th.
Program:
13.3.2020
9:30 – 10:00: Warming up and registration with Coffee & Tea (H 2035)
10:00 – 10:30: Welcome & Introductory words (Friedrich Steinle (Berlin), Tanja Kleinwächter (Berlin))
10:30 – 12:00: Keynote with discussion (Chair: Tanja Kleinwächter (Berlin))
José Luis Caivano (Buenos Aires) - The shape of color order systems and the evolution of color theory
12:00 – 13.30: Lunch break in room H 2035
13:30 – 15:30: Session 1: Early Trichromatic Printing (Chair: Sarah Lowengard (New York))
Ad Stijnman (Amsterdam) - Jacob Christoff Le Blon and Trichromatic Printing: Its Standard, Experiments and impromptu Solutions
Nadezhda Stanulevich (Saint Petersbourg) - The trichromatic idea and early colour printing in Russia
15:30 – 16:00: Coffee Break (H 2035)
16:00 – 18:00: Session 2: Ordering Colour Materials (Chair: Ursula Klein (Konstanz/ Berlin))
Gabriella Szalay (Harvard) - Testing Ground: Color Samples in European Porcelain Manufactories
Diana Lange (Hamburg/Berlin), Benjamin Van der Linde (Hamburg), Peter Zietlow (Hamburg) - Between colours, dyes and pigments – The issue of specific colourations on maps in Europe and Asia (18th and 19th centuries)
14.3.20200
9:30 – 9:45: Coffee & Tea in room H 2035
9:45 – 13:00: Session 3 : Natural History and Colour Order (Chair: André Karliczek (Jena))
Tanja Kleinwächter (Berlin) – Schiffermüller and Newton in sinter united – Franz Uibelakers theory of colours (1781)
Peter Davidson (Edinburgh), Joyce Dixon (Edinburgh) - From minerals to pigments, and Saxony to Scotland: the creation of Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1814)
(Short Break 11:45-12:00)
Elaine Ayers (New York) - Color for a 'Mere Flower Painter': Art, Botany, and the Sensuous Nature of Pigmentation in the Early- 19th Century
13:00 – 14:30: Lunch break in room H 2035
14:30 - 16:30: Session 4 : Artisanal techniques and the order of colour (Chair: Friedrich Steinle (Berlin))
Giulia Simonini (Berlin) - Lambert’s Color Pyramid: Practical Applications for Artists’ Techniques and Materials
Sophie-Luise Mävers (Kassel) - The Kassel Academy of Arts as a protector of experimental series on colour in the 1830s – colour harmony, encaustic painting and painting techniques of antiquity –
16:30 – 17:00: Coffee Break (H 2035)
17:00 – 18:00: Session 5 : Final comment & discussion (Chair: Friedrich Steinle (Berlin))
Sarah Lowengard (New York)