Peep Shows on Display: Mounting Paper Theatres for Exhibitions
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Barbara Korbel
Barbara Korbel has been paper conservator at the German Historical Museum since 1988. She trained as book and paper conservator at Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, worked as paper conservator at Collection Prinzhorn in Heidelberg, at Museum of Technology Berlin and freelance. She studied Art History, German and English literature and library science. She is a regular guest lecturer on exhibit preparation and mounting at the State Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart and since 2006 has taught mounting techniques at the University Urbino, the State Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart, the University Library Bern, the CICS in Cologne and in Berlin.
Abstract
In the eighteenth century, paper theatres were presented in special boxes on fairs. This technical note describes three ways to present these small decorative art objects in exhibitions: mounting the paper theatres in a box of museum board, between acrylic glass rods or in a frame.
Zusammenfassung
Peep Shows in Ausstellungen: Zur Montage von Guckkastenbildern
Im 18. Jahrhundert wurden Guckkastenbilder und kleine Papiertheaterszenen in speziellen Kästen auf Jahrmärkten gezeigt. Dieser Artikel stellt drei unterschiedliche Methoden vor, diese kleinen Kunstwerke aus Papier auszustellen: die Präsentation in einem Kasten aus Museumskarton oder zwischen Acryglasstäben oder die Montierung in einem Rahmen.
Résumé
Exposition de peep-shows: montage de théâtres en papier pour les expositions
Au 18ème siècle les théâtres en papier étaient présentés dans des boîtes spéciales pendant les foires. Trois façons de présenter ces petits objets d'art décoratif lors d’expositions sont : le montage des théâtres en papier dans une boîte en carton de qualité musée, entre des tiges de verre acrylique ou dans un cadre.
About the author
Barbara Korbel has been paper conservator at the German Historical Museum since 1988. She trained as book and paper conservator at Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, worked as paper conservator at Collection Prinzhorn in Heidelberg, at Museum of Technology Berlin and freelance. She studied Art History, German and English literature and library science. She is a regular guest lecturer on exhibit preparation and mounting at the State Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart and since 2006 has taught mounting techniques at the University Urbino, the State Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart, the University Library Bern, the CICS in Cologne and in Berlin.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank my colleague Michaela Brand for her corrections of the English manuscript and the always inspiring cooperation. I would also like to thank the reviewers of the manuscript for their helpful comments and improvement of the text.
Materials and suppliers
Museum board H66, marble grey/white, 2.1 mm, 80×100 cm, Klug conservation, Art. No. 66212, www.klug-conservation.com
Museum board classic, creme/white, 1.9 mm, 101×152 cm, Karthäuser Breuer, Art. No. 246436, www.karthaeuser-breuer.de
Acrylic glass XT round rod, colourless diameter 2.0 mm, Art. No. 0117091, Modulor, www.modulor.de
©2016 by De Gruyter
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Conservation Treatment of Samuel Holland’s Map of St John’s Island, 1765
- XL to XXL: Seeking Solutions for Transport, Exhibition and Storage of Charles Le Brun’s Cartoons
- Honeycomb Panels for Treatment and Vertical Storage of Large Paper Objects
- Large Custom Mount for a Drawing on Tracing Paper
- A Mounting Support Construction for a Paper-Caché Bust
- Ronald by Franz West. Mounting of a Three-Dimensional Papier-mâché Object
- Peep Shows on Display: Mounting Paper Theatres for Exhibitions
- Mounting Fans – Don’t Get in a Flap
- The Viennese Croÿ Albums: Options and Decisions Leading to the Conservation and Remounting of a Convolute of Double-Sided Gouache Paintings on Parchment
- Of Earth and Sky: A Pair of Ming Hanging Scrolls, from Past Repairs to Present Conservation
- Reframing Magna Carta – Comprehensive Planning and Pragmatic Outcomes
