International Conference / Workshop:

Visual Documentations of Art Protection during the Second World War -
European Picture Libraries in Dialogue / Visuelle Dokumentationen des
Kunstschutzes im zweiten Weltkrieg - Europäische Bildarchive im Dialog

21st/22nd. January, 2010

Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg

Supported by DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

Thursday, 21st January
9.00 h

I. Introduction:
. Hubert Locher (Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte -
Bildarchiv Foto Marburg) - Welcome
. Christina Kott (Institut d'histoire du temps présent IHTP, Paris) -

Keynote lecture: Photo archives and art protection in periods of war and
occupation. Remarks on a barely explored field of research
. [Intervention] Hubert Locher, Whose pictures? The Marburg Documents
related to the after war negotiations about restitution

10.30 h
II. Archives in France and Belgium:
. Jean-Daniel Pariset (Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine,
Archives photographiques, Paris) - The Mediathèque de l'Architecture et du
Patrimoine MAP
. Christina Ceulemans (Institut royal du patrimoine artistique KIK-IRPA,
Brüssel) - The department of documentation of the Royal Institute for
Cultural Heritage
. Marie-Christine Claes (Institut royal du patrimoine artistique KIK-IRPA,
Brüssel) - The Service de la documentation belge during WW II

13.30 h
III. Accross the Border: Photographs of Objects from France and Belgium in
German Archives
. Susanne Dörler (Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte -
Bildarchiv Foto Marburg) - The photographic inventory of the artistic
monuments in Belgium. A photographic campaign of the German Kunstschutz in
1941-1944
. Hartmut Scholz (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Deutschland / Freiburg i.
Br.) - German stained-glass of historical significance. The photographic
documentation during WW II. The collection of the CVMA in Freiburg / Br.
. [Intervention] Christian Fuhrmeister (Zentralinstitut für
Kunstgeschichte, München) - Tour of curators to occupied regions of France
and Belgium, October 12-22, 1940 - Reflections on a photo album preserved
at the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Munich

15.00 h
IV. Italy
. Marilena Tamassia (Soprintendenza Speciale per il Polo Museale
Fiorentino, Florenz) - The photographic documentation of war damage in
Florence (1940-1945)
. Silvia Paoli (Conservatore Civico Archivio Fotografico Castello
Sforzesco, Milano) - The photographic archive at Castello Sforzesco of
Milan. Role and importance of photography for the protection and the
knowledge of art between 1943 and 1944
. Regine Schallert (Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut für
Kunstgeschichte, Rom) - Photographs of the German Kunstschutz in Italy:
Two collections of the Bibliotheca Hertziana Rome (MPI)
. [Intervention] Almut Goldhahn (Kunsthistorisches Institut -
Max-Planck-Institut, Florenz) - Some war-time photographs by Hans Werner
Schmidt found in the photo library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in
Florence
. Ralf Peters (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München) - The photo
archives of the German Military Kunstschutz in Italy (1944-45). A
partictular collection in the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte

Friday, 22nd January

9.30 h
V. Photographic Archives on the Web
. Andreas Buchholz (Reconnaissance Collections, RCAHMS, Edinburgh) - The
Aerial Reconnaissance Archives TARA in Edinburgh - An introduction to its
collection and recently installed website
. Angela Kailus (Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte -
Bildarchiv Foto Marburg) - Establishing a digital network of photo
archives: The Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur. Present state and
perspectives of project based development
. Discussion: Perspectives and problems of developing a international
network of photo archives
. Almut Goldhahn, The Florence Declaration. Recommendations for the
preservation of analogue photo archives

Opportunity for a guided tour round the archive of Foto Marburg

Concept and scientific responsibility: Christina Kott, Hubert Locher

Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg
Philipps-Universität Marburg, Biegenstraße 11, D - 35037 Marburg
Tagungs- und Seminarraum im Ernst-von-Hülsen-Haus

For organisational reasons, we kindly ask interested participants to register.

Tel. +49(0)6421-28 23676
Fax +49(0)6421-28 28931
schuttefotomarburg.de

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