Workshop

Ordering Colours in 18th and early 19th century Europe

Datum
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Ort
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 2036
Veranstaltet von
Friedrich Steinle and Tanja Kleinwächter (both TU Berlin)

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)