DOI Artikel:
Aman, Cornelia: Middle Ages and nineteenth century: the significance of historical interventions in the documentation of and research on stained glass – a short working report from CVMA Potsdam
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.51154#0116
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SUMMARY
Cornelia Aman
MIDDLE AGES AND NINETEENTH CENTURY.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HISTORICAL
INTERVENTIONS IN THE DOCUMENTATION
OF AND RESEARCH ON STAINED GLASS -
A SHORT WORKING REPORT FROM CVMA
POTSDAM
Keywords: stained glass, restoration, 19th-century glaz-
ing, Naumburg
The article takes a cursory look at the activities of the
CVMA Potsdam in relation to nineteenth and early twen-
tieth century stained glass. During the inventory and
documentation of the stained glass of that period in the
churches of Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western
Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia from
1999 to 2006, a lot of information and photo material
was collected. It gives a broad overview of iconographies,
models, artists and workshops whose relevance goes be-
yond the scope of the specific regions of focus. In connec-
tion to the CVMA research on medieval glazing on the
other hand, the surveys of restorations and supplements
done in the nineteenth the and twentieth century provide
insight into the specific strategies in the restoration, pres-
ervation - and interpretation - of historic monuments
in the eras of romanticism and historicism. With regard
to the stained glass workshops of that time, this broad-
ens the knowledge about their capacities in the adoption
of historic techniques and stylistic features, their under-
standing of medieval models and iconography and the
extent to which those motives and characteristics found
their way into the workshops’ autonomous stained glass.
The examples given in the text integrate restoration works
with supplements to medieval glazing done by the Köni-
gliche Institut für Glasmalerei Berlin-Charlottenburg in
the 1850s and 1880s, showing specific approaches, but also
continuations of working methods. Also discussed in this
article is the restoration and completion of the glazing in
the west choir of the Naumburg Cathedral 1876/1878, by
the Naumburg glass painter Wilhelm Franke under the
direction of Karl Memminger, that combined close ex-
amination of medieval forms and iconography, ambitious
artistic appropriation and experimental - and therefore
vulnerable - stained glass technique.
SUMMARY
Cornelia Aman
MIDDLE AGES AND NINETEENTH CENTURY.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HISTORICAL
INTERVENTIONS IN THE DOCUMENTATION
OF AND RESEARCH ON STAINED GLASS -
A SHORT WORKING REPORT FROM CVMA
POTSDAM
Keywords: stained glass, restoration, 19th-century glaz-
ing, Naumburg
The article takes a cursory look at the activities of the
CVMA Potsdam in relation to nineteenth and early twen-
tieth century stained glass. During the inventory and
documentation of the stained glass of that period in the
churches of Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western
Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia from
1999 to 2006, a lot of information and photo material
was collected. It gives a broad overview of iconographies,
models, artists and workshops whose relevance goes be-
yond the scope of the specific regions of focus. In connec-
tion to the CVMA research on medieval glazing on the
other hand, the surveys of restorations and supplements
done in the nineteenth the and twentieth century provide
insight into the specific strategies in the restoration, pres-
ervation - and interpretation - of historic monuments
in the eras of romanticism and historicism. With regard
to the stained glass workshops of that time, this broad-
ens the knowledge about their capacities in the adoption
of historic techniques and stylistic features, their under-
standing of medieval models and iconography and the
extent to which those motives and characteristics found
their way into the workshops’ autonomous stained glass.
The examples given in the text integrate restoration works
with supplements to medieval glazing done by the Köni-
gliche Institut für Glasmalerei Berlin-Charlottenburg in
the 1850s and 1880s, showing specific approaches, but also
continuations of working methods. Also discussed in this
article is the restoration and completion of the glazing in
the west choir of the Naumburg Cathedral 1876/1878, by
the Naumburg glass painter Wilhelm Franke under the
direction of Karl Memminger, that combined close ex-
amination of medieval forms and iconography, ambitious
artistic appropriation and experimental - and therefore
vulnerable - stained glass technique.