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December 2013 IPC Executive Board: IPC President: Prof. Yadegar Asisi Ernst Storm, [email protected] (GE-Berlin) Dr. Mimi Colligan Newsletter 28 (AU-Melbourne) IPC Secretariat: Patrick Deicher MA December 2013 (CH-Lucerne) International Panorama Council Dominique Hanson Sylvia Alting van Geusau (BE-Brussels) International Panorama Council Postbus 76012 Ernst Storm MSc 1070 EA Amsterdam (NL-Rotterdam) The Netherlands Ryszard Wójtowicz M.A. (PL-Rogoż) www.panoramacouncil.org Phone +31 621 98 73 47 Prof. Martin Woolner [email protected] (UK-Plymouth) NEW SECRETARY -GENERAL APPOINTED The Executive Board of the International CONTENT Panorama Council has appointed a new Secretary-General to ensure a NEW SECRETARY -GENERAL APPOINTED 1 prosperous future of the organization. We are very happy to be able to introduce Sylvia Alting van Geusau MUTATIONS TO THE EXECUTIVE BOARD (1988) as our new person in charge. She OF IPC 2 studied Theatre Studies and Art History at the University of Amsterdam. In 2012 SAVE THE DATE ! – 23 RD INTERNATIONAL she obtained her MA degree in Art PANORAMA CONFERENCE 2014 2 Studies with a thesis on all historical Panoramas in Amsterdam. Her 22 ND INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA Curriculum Vitae shows she is a CONFERENCE, PANORAMIC SPECTACLES panorama professional, and she is well A TOURIST ATTRACTION THEN AND NOW 2 aware of the huge task that is waiting, to turn the professionalization of our STUDY FOR THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE organization into a success. CYCLORAMA REDISCOVERED 4 Sylvia Alting van Geusau PANORAMA OF THE THAMES PROJECT 5 Postbus 76012 1070 EA Amsterdam EXHIBITION ON PANORAMA PAINTER [email protected] GEBHARD FUGEL 5 Mobile phone: +31 621 98 73 47 INTERACTIVE PANORAMAS ’ ROLE IN HELPING TO PRESERVE CULTURAL MEMORY 5 Former Secretary Patrick Deicher was surprised by a radical change in his job with BDO Ltd. (Switzerland). Since MOVING PANORAMA OF THE GRAND August 2013 Patrick is heading BDO MOVING MIRROR OF CALIFORNIA 5 Switzerland’s competence center for NGOs. This new function is a great PANORAMA OF PILGRIM ’S PROGRESS chance and a personal honor. However, BOOK COMING SPRING 2015 6 it takes far more time and needs complete engagement. This is why NEW PUBLICATIONS 6 Patrick has taken the radical decision to resign as the IPC Secretary-General. MEMBERSHIP 7 Patrick will keep the contact to the organization, however in a different role. 29 TH NEWSLETTER 7 He has been elected as a member of the Executive Board. He will act as the treasurer of the association. Contact: [email protected] International Panorama Council The International Panorama Council is a non-government and not-for-profit association, subject to Swiss law.1 MUTATIONS TO THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF SAVE THE DATE ! IPC - 23 RD INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA The General Assembly of IPC has CONFERENCE 2014 decided on 24 November to some rd changes in the Executive Board of the The 23 International Panorama association. Prof. Sanford Wurmfeld Conference 2014 will be held in Altötting, (New York, USA) resigned at the end of Germany from 10-13 September 2013. A his term on the Board, and board post-conference program will include member Prof. Martin Woolner took over visits to the panoramas in Altötting and his position as Vice-President. Damian to Salzburg and Innsbruck panoramas in Widmer (Lucerne, Switzerland) resigned Austria. Further information will be to facilitate the election of our former delivered in the beginning of 2014. Secretary-General Patrick Deicher as Treasurer, and both Dr. Mimi Hanson and Dominique Hanson (Brussels, 22 ND INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA Belgium) were reelected for a three year CONFERENCE PANORAMIC SPECTACLES – A term on the board. IPC is very grateful TOURIST ATTRACTION THEN AND NOW to both honorary IPC member Damian Widmer and Sandy Wurmfeld. They have Lucerne, Switzerland, 22-25 November contributed a lot to IPC, and we hope 2013 they will continue to do so for a long time to come. The 22nd International Panorama Conference was held in Luzern, The General Assembly also re-elected Switzerland. The conference was opened Sara Velas (USA, Los Angeles) and on the visitor platform of the Bourbaki elected Gabriele Koller (Germany, Bonn) panorama. After an opening speech by as members of the Auditing Committee. the President of the IPC Ernst Storm and a welcome speech of the President of the The changes have resulted in the City Parliament of Lucerne Thomas following composition of the Executive Gmuer the attendants of the conference Board of IPC: were allowed a look behind the scenes. President: It was incredible to see what Christian Ernst Storm MSc (Netherlands, Rotterdam) Marty and Liselotte Wechsler and their Vice-President: conservation team had done over the Prof. Martin Woolner (UK, Plymouth) past twenty years. Treasurer: The Bourbaki panorama depicts Patrick Deicher M.A. (Switzerland, Lucerne) the French army who under general Members: Bourbaki flees to Switzerland during the Prof. Yadegar Asisi (Germany, Berlin) Franco-Prussian war in 1871. Special Dr. Mimi Colligan (Australia, Melbourne) about this panorama – as Patrick Deicher Dominique Hanson (Belgium, Brussels) (Switzerland, Ryszard Wójtowicz M.A. (Poland, Rogoż) [email protected]) mentioned Please click on this link for more in the first lecture of the conference day information : – was that this was a battle panorama http://www.panoramacouncil.org/en/wh without a battle. It showed the event of o_we_are/the_governance/executive_bo the 87.000 refugees that stayed in ard/ Switzerland. By depicting the humanitarian system of Switzerland – International Panorama Council The International Panorama Council is a non-government and not-for-profit association, subject to Swiss law.2 the Red Cross was just established in projections were used to enrich the 1863 - the panorama underlined a depictions. characteristic identity of the Swiss. The Companies like Asisi (Germany, panorama was originally made for www.asisi.de,[email protected]) and Geneva by the painter Edouard Castres Concept360 (Switzerland, and ten collaborators. In 1889 the http://www.concept360.ch/de, Bourbaki panorama was transferred to [email protected]) and the project Luzern. In 1926 the rotunda was used as Elisarion (Switzerland, www.elisarion.ch, a parking garage what both rescued and [email protected] & damaged the panorama painting. About [email protected]) showed the value five meters of the sky were cut away in of new media in order to attract its order to create more space for the cars. audience. For instance Concept360 In the 1970s/80s the association for the captures historic moments like the preservation of the Bourbaki Panorama election of the new pope in a 360 was founded and bought the building degrees digital medium in order to make and painting. Nowadays the panorama is the spectator part of this historic still under supervision of the restorers moment. The Elisarion project 3D laser and the building serves as a community scanning made it possible to reenact a institution with a public library and historic panoramic painting, namely ‘The several cinemas. clear world of the blissful’ and its original http://www.bourbakipanorama.ch building. In the projects of Asisi they As Andreas Bürgi (Switzerland, offer the spectator an extra layer to the [email protected]) of the University panorama by creating also an exhibition. of Luzern explained the panorama was One of the examples Matthias Thiel situated on the nineteenth century showed was the Pergamon panorama touristic strip of Luzern. From 1848 exhibited in the Pergamon museum, tourism became increasingly important Berlin 2011-2012. for the city of Luzern and numerous The conference touched upon a hotels were built at the lakeside. To few lost nineteenth century panoramas show what Switzerland’s landscape had as the Jerusalem panoramas that were to offer a few spectacles were exhibited in the Netherlands (Sylvia established, like the Glacier Garden and Alting van Geusau, the Netherlands, the Alpineum mountain dioramas. But [email protected]), the also spectacles that explained the panoramas of the Belgian Panorama identity of Switzerland like the panorama Company in the United States (Suzanne and the Lion monument. Wray, USA, [email protected]), the The broad variety from historical panoramas and dioramas displayed in to contemporary topics during the two Leipzig (Antje Dietze, Germany, day conference showed the interest that [email protected]) and the still exists for the panoramic panoramas of the Brazilian painter Victor phenomenon. The theme of this year’s Meirelles (Mário César Coelho, Brazil, conference was Panoramic spectacles – a [email protected]). tourist attraction then and now. Sara Next to these lost nineteenth Velas’(USA, [email protected]) century panoramas there are luckily presentation was a literal interpretation enough still some to be seen. Marina of the topic as she presented footage Zboevskaya (Russia, [email protected]) from her trip to the contemporary from the Battle of Borodino panorama panoramas of China and North-Korea. In Moscow and Ryszard Wójtowicz (Poland, these panoramas both painting as digital [email protected]) from the International Panorama Council The International Panorama Council is a non-government and not-for-profit association, subject to Swiss law.3 Raclawice panorama Poland both he read the story they imagined in the explained more about the way in which nineteenth century. Another they attracted their audience. The contemporary moving panorama was panorama of the Battle of Borodino in shown by Sue Truman (USA, Moscow works for instance together with [email protected]). She showed other Ukrainian and Russian panoramas a homemade ‘crankie’ entitled ‘The and dioramas. Lyubov Proshina (Russia, Seagull’ made out of felt on fabric. [email protected]), member of the studio who restored the Battle of We want to thank all 45 participants for Borodino, gave a talk about the making this conference successful and contemporary works that the Studio of we hope to see you next year in Military Artists also manufactures.
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