Sketching Prohibited! Military Interdictions of Drawing and Artistic Practice in Europe from Early Modern Times to the Twentieth Century Information for Participants Basic Information 2 Programme 3 Addresses and Travel Information 5 Maps 7 1
Basic Information Dates Thursday-Friday, November 5-6, 2015 Conference Venues Thursday, November 5, 2015, 17:30-19:00 Freie Universität Berlin, Kunsthistorisches Institut (Department of Art History), Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin, Hörsaal B (ground floor) Friday, November 6, 2015, 9:15-20:00 Freie Universität Berlin, Kunsthistorisches Institut (Department of Art History), Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin, Room A 163 (first floor) Organization/Concept Ulrike Boskamp, DFG-Research Group 1703 Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of Art Sebastian Fitzner, Juniorprofessor für Architekturgeschichte und Architekturtheorie der Frühen Neuzeit in Europa und Amerika Contact Dr. Ulrike Boskamp DFG-Forschergruppe 1703 E-Mail: ulrike.boskamp@fu-berlin.de Office phone: +49 30 838 58770 Prof. Dr. Sebastian Fitzner E-Mail: sebastian.fitzner@fu-berlin.de Office phone: +49 30 838 65298 Kunsthistorisches Institut der Freien Universität Berlin Koserstr. 20 14195 Berlin Thanks The conference is generously supported by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft 2
Programme Sketching prohibited! Military Interdictions of Drawing and Artistic Practice in Europe from Early Modern Times to the Twentieth Century Prohibitions of drawing topographies or architecture have rarely been a topic of art history or visual studies, although they can be accounted for in Europe since the 16th century. Such interdictions prove the power that was ascribed to on site-drawings of landscapes, cities, and fortifications. They were a widespread reaction to the production, collection and storage of maps and images of potential enemies terrains, and their objective was to prevent espionage. It can be assumed that these military restrictions of civilian artistic practices not only shaped the historic representations of land- and cityscapes and of architecture that still exist in collections and archives today, but that they also informed historic artistic practices of sketching and drawing on the spot. The colloquium sets out to investigate the effects of military interdictions of drawing through a series of case studies, proposing that such restrictions informed both the perception and the visual representations of landscapes, cities and buildings. Thursday, November 5, 2015 Venue: Freie Universität Berlin, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin, Hörsaal B (ground floor) 17:30 Welcome and Introduction Ulrike Boskamp/Sebastian Fitzner 18:00 Keynote Lecture Ulrike Gehring (Trier), Sketched Knowledge: Epistemic Procedures of Mapping Landscape around 1650 19:30 Conference Dinner at the Restaurant Alter Krug, Königin-Luise-Str. 52, 14195 Berlin 3
Friday, November 6, 2015 Venue: Freie Universität Berlin, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin, Room A 163 (1st floor) 9.15 Opening Ulrike Boskamp/Sebastian Fitzner 9.30 Valeria Manfrè (Madrid), Copy and Paste. The Reuse of Visual Culture in Early Modern Urban Cartography 10.30 Amrei Buchholz (Hamburg/Berlin), Tracing El Dorado. Maps of Secret Territories: Between Imagination and (Topographic) Projection 11.30 Coffee Break 12.00 Djoeke van Netten (Amsterdam), Publication Prohibited! Secret Drawings in the Dutch East India Company in the 17th Century 13.00 14.00 Lunch Break 14.00 Pedro Luengo Gutiérrez (Sevilla), Just War and Transcultural Dialogue. Dutch and Spanish Fortifications in Southeast Asia in the 18th Century 15.00 Simon Paulus (Stuttgart), A Friendly Rivalry? Some Notes on Studying the Art of Fortification in Practice around 1700 16.00 Coffee Break 16.30 Sean Willcock (London), Image-Making and Imperial Intervention in Nineteenth- Century South Asia 17.30 Ulrike Boskamp (Berlin), Mnemotechnics and the Trickery of Spies. Special Artists Strategies on the Frontlines of the Franco-Prussian War 18.30 19.00 Concluding Remarks and Final Discussion 4
Addresses and Travel Information Venues Thursday, November 5, 2015, 17:30-19:15 Freie Universität Berlin, Kunsthistorisches Institut (Department of Art History), Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin, Hörsaal B (ground floor) Friday, November 6, 2015, 9:15-20:00 Freie Universität Berlin, Kunsthistorisches Institut (Department of Art History), Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin, Room A 163 (first floor) Accommodation Seminaris CampusHotel Berlin, Takustr. 39, 14195 Berlin, Phone: +49 30 557797-0, Fax.: +49 30 557797-100, E-Mail: berlin@seminaris.de Website: http://www.seminaris.de/hotels/seminaris-campushotel-berlin.html Restaurant for the dinner on Thursday at 7:30 pm Alter Krug, Königin-Luise-Straße 52, 14195 Berlin Website: http://alter-krug-berlin.de/ Public Transport in Berlin In order to use public transport, called BVG (www.bvg.de), we recommend you to buy the Berlin CityTourCard AB (72 hours) for 24.50 or the Berlin CityTourCard ABC (72 hours) for 26.50 if you are arriving at Schönefeld Airport. These tickets will offer you unlimited travel on buses, S-Bahn, U-Bahn (Underground/Metro/Tube) and Trams. The tickets can be purchased at S- Bahn or U-Bahn ticket machines as well as on buses. Alternatively single tickets (Einzelfahrschein) can be purchased before each trip (to be used in one direction only) at 2.70 for Zones AB or 3.30 for Zones ABC (Schönefeld Airport). Make sure to validate your ticket before travel by stamping it. How to get to Seminaris CampusHotel Berlin From Airport Berlin Schönefeld Option 1: Take the bus X7 (direction: U Rudow), change at U Rudow for underground line U7 (direction: U Rathaus Spandau), change again at U Fehrbelliner Platz for underground line U3 (direction: U Krumme Lanke) to U Dahlem-Dorf. Leave the station by walking against the direction of travel and by using the left exit. Turn right behind the 5
flower bed into Königin-Luise-Straße. After ca. 100 metres, turn right again into Takusstraße. You will find the entrance to the Seminaris CampusHotel after 200 metres on the left side (ca. 1:04 h). Option 2: Take the S-Bahn S 45 (direction: S Südkreuz), change at S Südkreuz for circle line S41, change again at S Heidelberger Platz for underground line U3 (direction: U Krumme Lanke) to U Dahlem-Dorf. Leave the station by walking against the direction of travel and by using the left exit. Turn right behind the flower bed into Königin-Luise- Straße. After ca. 100 metres, turn right again into Takusstraße. You will find the entrance to the Seminaris CampusHotel after 200 metres on the left side (ca. 1:06 h). From Airport Berlin Tegel Take the bus 109 (direction: S+U Zoologischer Garten), change at U Jakob-Kaiser-Platz for underground line U7 (direction: U Rudow), change again at U Fehrbelliner Platz for underground line U3 (direction: U Krumme Lanke) to U Dahlem-Dorf. Leave the station by walking against the direction of travel. Turn right behind the flower bed into Königin- Luise-Straße. After ca. 100 metres, turn right again into Takusstraße. You will find the entrance to the Seminaris CampusHotel after 200 metres on the left side (ca. 0:36 h). From Berlin Central Station (Hauptbahnhof) Take the S-Bahn S75 (direction: S Westkreuz) or S7 (direction: Potsdam Hbf), change at S+U Zoologischer Garten for underground line U9 (direction: S+U Rathaus Steglitz), change again at U Spichernstraße for underground line U3 (direction: U Krumme Lanke) to U Dahlem-Dorf. Leave the station by walking against the direction of travel and by using the left exit. Turn right behind the flower bed into Königin-Luise-Straße. After ca. 100 metres, turn right again into Takusstraße. You will find the entrance to the Seminaris CampusHotel after 200 metres on the left side (ca. 0:35 h). 6
MAPS A Seminaris CampusHotel Berlin (Point A on the maps) Takustr. 39, 14195 Berlin Public transport: U3 Dahlem-Dorf B Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Art History (Point B on the maps) Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin Public transport: U3 Podbielskiallee or U3 Dahlem-Dorf C Restaurant Alter Krug, Conference Dinner (Point C on the maps) Königin-Luise-Straße 52, 14195 Berlin Public transport: U3 Dahlem-Dorf 7
Routes and Walking Distances From Seminaris CampusHotel (point A on the maps) to Kunsthistorisches Institut (point B on the maps): via Archivstraße: 850 metres (ca. 0:11 h) From Kunsthistorisches Institut (point B on the maps) to Restaurant Alter Krug (point C on the maps): via Archivstraße: 800 metres (ca. 0:10 h) 8