The first symposium of European Society for Nineteenth-Century Art
(ESNA) will be dedicated to 'Boundaries and Bargains: Uneasy Alliances
in Nineteenth-Century Art' and will be held in Amsterdam on May 22-23
2013, at the University of Amsterdam and at the Van Gogh Museum

Artistic Alliances in Nineteenth Century Art

Organizers: Kathryn Brown (Tilburg University) and Alba Campo Rosillo
(RMA)

Supported by the Onderzoekschool Kunstgeschiedenis, the University of
Amsterdam, and the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam.

See the programme below. For more information on the ESNA click here:
http://www.onderzoekschoolkunstgeschiedenis.nl/site/index.php?page=esna&lngg=nl

For registration please contact: infoalbacampo.com


PROGRAMME

Wednesday, 22nd May
Location: University of Amsterdam (Doelenzaal, Amsterdam University
Library: Singel, Amsterdam)

8.45 am
Registration

9.10-9.15
Introduction by Kathryn Brown (Tilburg University)


Session 1: Nationalism, Politics, and Aesthetic Practice
09.15-10.30
Chair: Jenny Reynaerts (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)

Natalia Keller (Utrecht University)
Los Desastres de la Guerra in Times of Peace: Goya's Series After 1850

Ruth Kaloena Krul (Independent Researcher)
A Painter's Dilemma: A Polish Artist in Habsburg Vienna

Nastasja Peeters and Piet Veldeman (Royal Museum of the Army and
Military History, Brussels)
Keeping up Appearances: The Truth About the Nineteenth-Century Belgian
Military Portrait

10.30-10.45 - Break


Session 2: Artistic Circles and Patronage
10.45-12.00
Chair: Sanne van der Maarel (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam)

Annemieke Hoogenboom (Utrecht University)
Schelfhout/Schelfaut, Bombeld/Bombléd, Kruseman/Krusemann: The
Multinational Roots of the Painters in the Hague in the First Half of
the Nineteenth Century

Angelique Demur (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
The Cradle of Art Nouveau and Symbolism in Belgium: A Renaissance
Willpower

Ulrike Müller (Utrecht University)
International Alliances, Local Boundaries: Social and Professional
Networks of the Nineteenth-Century Antwerp Art Collectors Florent van
Ertborn and Fritz Mayer van den Bergh

12.00-13.00 - Lunch


Session 3: Literary and Cultural Identities in Nineteenth-Century Print
Culture
13.00-14.15
Chair: Camelia Errouane (University of Groningen)

Joan Greer (University of Alberta)
Artists' Periodicals in Late Nineteenth-Century Holland: Artistic
Sociability and Identity Formation

Marijke Jonker (Independent Researcher)
Delacroix's Renaissance: The Artist as Art Critic in 1830

Emily Morgan (Iowa State University)
Collaboration and Conflict in Street Life in London

14.15-14.30 - Break


Session 4: Social and International Exchange in Nineteenth-Century
Portraiture
14.30-15.45
Chair: Mayken Jonkman (The Netherlands Institute for Art History, The
Hague)

Wendy van Lith (Independent Researcher)
The Revival of the Tallest. Full-length Portraiture during the late
Nineteenth-Century in the Netherlands.

Sarah Kinzel (Humboldt University, Berlin)
…two for the show: German-Roman Alliances of Joseph von Kopf and Franz
von Lenbach

Wendy Wiertz (Leuven University)
A fruitful alliance within strict aristocratic boundaries

15.45-16.00 - Break


Session 5: Making and Breaking Pictorial Allegiances
16.00-17.15 - Session 5
Chair: Jennifer van Schoor (Birkbeck College, University of London)

Jane Boddy (Independent Researcher)
Enmeshed in Alternatives: A New Look at Caspar David Friedrich's
Artistic Approach

Lieske Tibbe (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Pissarro's Curtains: French Impressionism versus British
Pre-Raphaelitism

Harry Kraaij (Independent Researcher)
Animal Painting in the Second Half of the 19th Century in Holland and
Belgium: Specialization vs. Style


Thursday, 23rd May
Location: Van Gogh Museum (Auditorium)

Session 6: International Tensions and Alliances in Exhibition Histories
09.15-10.30
Chair: Lieske Tibbe (Radboud University, Nijmegen)

Alba Campo Rosillo (Independent Researcher)
Antoine Étex: A Rebellious Artist in Search of the Ideal Republic(an
Customer)

Sara Tas (Independent Researcher)
Comparing and Sharing: The International Network of Museum Professionals

Isabel Valverde (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona)
Reciprocity as Ideology in Times of War? The 1917 Exposició d'Art
Francès in Barcelona

10.30-10.45 - Break


Session 7: Women on the Edge: Marking the Boundaries of Gender Identity
10.45-12.00
Chair: Marjan Sterckx (Gent University)

Mary Hunter (McGill University, Montreal)
Hysterical Alliances: Medical and Artistic Encounters at the Salpêtrière
Hospital

Jennifer van Schoor (Birkbeck College, University of London)
The Indian Folds of Victorian Social Bargaining

Britany Salsbury (City University of New York)
At the Boundaries of Print Culture: Albert Besnard's La Femme

12.00-13.00 - Lunch


Session 8: Revisioning Spatial Boundaries
13.00-14.15
Chair: Joan Greer (University of Alberta)

Dirk van de Vijver (Utrecht University)
Repositioning ‘Belgian' Architecture: The Case of Victor Horta

Simone Streibich (University of Bern)
Constructions of the Feminine Interior: Household Manuals and the
Creation of the Ideal Home.

Robert Verhoogt (Dutch Ministry for Education)
Enjoying the Bird's Eye View: The World Seen from a Balloon in
Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture

14.15-14.30 - Break


Session 9: Shaping Public Space
14.30-15.45
Chair: Jan Dirk Baetens (Radboud University, Nijmegen)

Camelia Errouane (University of Groningen)
Uneasy Alliances: The Bonds of Marriage in French Public Murals

Jana Wijnsouw (Ghent University)
Foes Among Friends? French sculptors chosen for Belgian Public
Commissions

Hanna Melse (Independent Researcher)
Bargaining in Nineteenth-Century Dutch Religious Painting

15.45-16.00 - Break


Session 10: Bargains and the Art Market
16.00-17.15
Chair: Evelien de Visser (The Netherlands Institute for Art History, The
Hague)

Jan Dirk Baetens (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Bound to Bargain, Bargaining to Bind: Artists, Dealers and Artist-Dealer
Agreements in the Nineteenth Century

Renske Cohen Tervaert (Utrecht University)
Everybody's Uncle: Vincent van Gogh and his Dealings

Helleke van den Braber (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Patronage Relationships in Art and Literature around 1865: The Cases of
Johannes Kneppelhout and Multatuli