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Newsletter 22 Newsletter 22 20th IPC International Panorama Confe- IPC Formalization January 2011 rence at Gettysburg/USA 1 On the occasion of the 19th International Pa- 21th IPC International Panorama Confe- norama Conference the formalization of IPC rence at Moscow/Russia 1 was decided by the participants. That found- IPC Formalization 1 ing reunion led to a variety of activities by IPC IPC International Proceedings of the 12th International Pa- president Ernst Storm and the Secretary- norama Conference available with the General Patrick Deicher to have statutes pre- Panorama Council President 1 pared and to take the necessary steps to Projected panorama of the ancient me- enroll the International Panorama Council in a www.panoramapainting.com tropolis of Pergamon by Yadegar Asisi 1 commercial register. As soon as this process is The Grand Moving Mirror of California 2 finished, you will be invited to sign in for Images of Louis Braun’s 'Battle of Se- membership. More information will follow. dan'? 2 Fire at the fortress of Sedan - Draft of Louis Braun's 'Battle of Sedan' not dam- Proceedings of the 12th International Pa- aged 2 norama Conference available with the TV documentary on Salzburg panorama 2 President! Diorama painter Evgeniy Danilevsky As stated in Newsletters 21, the proceedings passed away 2 of the New York conference were published Innsbruck Panorama 'Battle of Mt. Isel' thanks to Gabriele Koller, who – with the help transferred 2 of Mimi Colligan – did the editing of this fasci- Thun-Panorama by Marquard Wocher to nating new book on panoramas; and thanks be renovated 2 also to financial assistance from the founda- Images of Otto Sinding’s 'Battle of Leip- tion of Panorama Altoetting, Damian Widmer IPC Executive Board: zig? 2 and Asisi Visual Culture GmbH. Exhibition on diorama painter N.I. Prof. Yadegar Asisi Ovechkin 2 The Panorama in the Old World and the New (GE-Berlin) Exhibition of Grekov’s Studio at Bayhan Navzat Edited by Gabriele Koller (TR-Istanbul) Moscow 3 Amberg/Germany: Buero Wilhelm Verlag, Dr. Mimi Colligan Exhibition of an early panorama-like 2010 (AU-Melbourne) view at St. Petersburg 3 ISBN-13: 978-3-936721-36-2 Patrick Deicher M.A. New studies and publications on pano- 168 pages, 112 (mainly colour) illustrations (CH-Lucerne) Dominique Hanson ramas etc. 3 (BE-Brussels) You can order copies of the publication direct- Ernst Storm MSc ly to IPC president Ernst Storm: (NL-Rotterdam) 20th IPC International Panorama Confe- [email protected]. Dr. Gebhard Streicher (GE-Munich) rence at Gettysburg/USA, 14 - 18 Sep- Dipl. Arch. Damian Widmer tember 2011 (CH-Lucerne) th We are happy to inform you of the 20 IPC Projected panorama of the ancient me- Prof. Sanford Wurmfeld International Panorama Conference. IPC's tropolis of Pergamon by Yadegar Asisi (US-NYC) jubilee conference will be held Gettysburg PA, German panorama artist Yadegar Asisi is pre- USA from 14th to 18th September 2011. It will paring a new panorama in cooperation with be hosted by the Gettysburg Foundation. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Istanbul Honorary President: th Prof. Ottó Trogmayer On Wednesday 14 September an opening branch of the German Archeological Institute. (HU-Budapest) reception will be held in the late afternoon. From October 2011 to autumn 2012 a huge th th The 15 and 16 are reserved for the pro- exhibition on the antique metropolis of Per- President: ceedings. On Saturday 17th there will be a gamon will be open to the public at the mu- Ernst Storm, [email protected] visiting program to the Gettysburg Battlefield seum island (Museumsinsel) at Berlin, Germa- site, and on Sunday 18th there will be a post- ny. The extraordinary event of that temporary conference program in the region. exhibition is the link between a classical arc- Please do not fix travel arrangements yet. heological scientific exhibition and panorama IPC Secretariat: Minor changes to the exact date may still art. The reconstructed antique view of the city Patrick Deicher happen. The conference invitation with the in the year 124 A.D. will be displayed in a Hochruetistrasse 39 final program will be delivered by mid April 360° photo-realistic circular painting. Visitors 6005 Lucerne 2011. will be able to see the ancient city as if they Switzerland had travelled in space and time. Call for papers: If you would like to contribute The panorama will be shown in a temporary Phone +41 79 637 31 53 [email protected] a paper to this conference (in English only), rotunda in front of the museum buildings on please contact the Secretary Patrick Deicher Berlin museum island. The projected dimen- by 28 February 2011 at the latest: sions of the new panorama are 22 meter high [email protected]. by 100 m. in length. First visualizations and more information: www.asisi.de/de/VisualCulture/Pergamon- 21th IPC International Panorama Confe- Projekt/. rence at Moscow/Russia The 21st IPC International Panorama Confe- rence will be hosted by the Borodino Panora- ma at Moscow, Russian Federation. It is sche- duled for 16th to 19th October 2012. The theme of the 21st conference will be war pa- noramas. -> p. 1 The Grand Moving Mirror of California Diorama painter Evgeniy Danilevsky passed away Panorama artist Sara Velas is re-activating the tradition of On 28th August national artist of Russia Evgeniy Dani- moving panoramas. From July to August 2010 The Grand levsky passed away in the age of 83. Evgeniy Ivanovich Moving Mirror of California, a descendant of the mid-19th Danilevsky was born in 1928. He finished his studies at century moving panorama storytelling tradition, was on the Kharkov art institute, and had worked since 1962 in exhibition. The audience saw an exquisitely rendered the Grekov Studios of Military Artists, named after military painted scroll with live Foley effects and spoken narration, and panorama artist M.B. Grekov. imparting an idea of the thrills and dangers undertaken on Danilevsky participated in the restoration project of Pano- a seaboard trip around the South American continent to rama 'Battle of Borodino' in 1967. He was the painter of reach Gold Rush-era California. several large scale dioramas, as 'Armed revolt in Perm in The Grand Moving Panorama of California was inspired by a 1905' (1970), 'Storm on the fortress Izmail by Suvorov's hybrid of 19th century visual and performance traditions – armies in 1790' (1973), 'Fight for Moscow. December, the moving panorama. Using this colorful history as a 1941' (1974), 'Clearing of Budapest by the Soviet armies foundation, the Grand Moving Panorama of California is a in 1945' (1976), 'Storm of Berlin' (1980), 'Capture of the 270-foot-long painted landscape, depicting the early histo- fortress of Osa' (1986), 'Storm on Berlin Reichstag' ry of California and referencing it to elements of the land- (1990). For a memorial complex on Poklonnaya Gora Da- scape and culture as they exist today. On the voyage we nilevsky he projected the diorama 'Counterattack near encounter the rough seas at Cape Horn, early versions of Moscow' (1995). today's California cities and famous natural treasures, and the people, landscapes and ports-of-call the passengers encountered on their journey to find their fortunes. True to Innsbruck Panorama 'Battle of Mt. Isel' transferred its filmic spirit, the panorama script possesses the same The panorama ‘Battle of Mt. Isel’ was relocated into a thirst for exciting narrative as an adventure film, entertain- newly erected museum building in September 2010. The ing the audience by leading them, scene by scene, into the painting’s size is approx 10.6 meters high by 94.4 meters perilous unknown. The original 1853 script was generously long. To allow safe transport, the painting was opened lent by the Saco Museum and Peter Morelli, in coordination along a seam, rolled up symmetrically under tension on with the Maine Historical Society, where it was only recent- two rollers and fixed into an especially conceived transport ly rediscovered in their basement archives. Originally ac- frame. After the successful transfer the painting was companied by a painted panorama scroll which no longer placed with the help of a crane through an opening in the exists, this script is the base upon which the team of Sara roof of the building of its new location. In the following Velas has built a new manifestation of this oft-interpreted weeks the painting was rolled out and final restoration American tale. work started. The opening of the new museum ‘TirolPanorama’ is scheduled for February 2011. The future use of the histor- Images of Louis Braun’s 'Battle of Sedan'? ic panorama rotunda in the city centre has not yet been Panorama researcher Ventsislav Tshakov from Bulgaria is defined. searching images of the panorama by Louis Braun "Battle of Sedan" which was displayed in Zurich in 1913. He owns the French book "Panorama de Sedan" by Marie-Noelle Thun-Panorama by Marquard Wocher to be reno- Maynard with colored image of skala 1:10. But he is look- vated ing for images from the original panorama with its three- The project for the renovation of the oldest existing pano- dimensional foreground. Maybe one of you can be of help. rama painting will soon be started. The restoration plan Please contact Mr. Tshakov directly: [email protected] provides for on-site restoration during opening hours. This will allow visitors to observe the work in process. The restoration of the painting will be accompanied by a re- Fire at the fortress of Sedan - Draft of Louis Braun's construction of a velum and the installation of a view pro- 'Battle of Sedan' not damaged tection between the viewer's platform and the lower end A fire incident at the fortress of Sedan, France took place in of the painting.
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