Double issue Dec 20/Jan 21 84 pages 70 links ExpoTime! 2 videos 110 referred museums The international magazine for museum professionals and institutions 1 ExpoTime!, double issue December 2020/January 2021 Over 10,000 items ready for despatch Boxes to brushes, tape to Tyvek, pens to polyester, PEL have the highest stock levels of conservation supplies in Europe. Our live stock levels show if an item is available. Go to www.pel.eu 2 ExpoTime!, double issue December 2020/January 2021 pel-collageindd.indd 1 15/11/2018 10:56:58 The editor‘s intro It is a good conservative idea to store all objects in the depositories in acid-free cardboard boxes, but ... Is it a good conservation measure to keep all deposi- were mixed media or plastics, and plastics were used as tory objects in acid-free cardboard boxes with protec- wrapping material and buffers. 80% of the museum ob- tive glassine sheets, shock buffers, with a dust cover jects were destroyed in flames, causing a stinking infer- and enough space outside for labels? Museum specialists no, soot and fire fighting water entered the depositories will come up immediately with one contradiction: not all in the lower stories with the later danger of mould. The objects really need such depot packaging. NYPD said the cause of the fire was not “criminal” and the investigation is still ongoing. But before imitating such a treatment which makes sense for some museums and some obejects, you should My personal view from the distance is that this “card- really consider two things: The objects are quite well board depository” for flammable objects has never been protected after this measure, but you need about 3-4 a secure place for such objects. The disaster could have times more storage space as before. Not for new ac- been avoided. Let’s hope that those responsible show quired objects, just for the packaging of your collection. the ability to learn from it. In addition, one has to say goodbye to the idea of ​​the public depository. The Überseemuseum in Bremen, Ger- Christian Mueller-Straten many, for example, has set up such a facility long ago, Editor of ExpoTime! allowing visitor, against a special fee, to step over to the depository, visit and explore it by using databases with free access to defined information levels. But most of all, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that a museum that wants to work with a cardboard depot, increases the risk of fire considerably, willingly and unnecessarily especially if objects could be stored safely otherwise and could be stored dustfree by differ- Over 10,000 items ent measures. Such a decision means that fire protec- tion must be increased considerably before such a step is taken. ready for despatch The best protection against fire is not the sprinkler, but the continuous lowering of oxygen content in the en- tire depository (museum/library/archive). Every child in the world is probably familiar with the experiment in which one can observe what happens to a candle over which a glass dome is placed. The lowering of oxygen is Boxes to brushes, tape to Tyvek, pens to polyester, also good against pests and has just been exemption-ap- PEL have the highest stock levels of conservation proved again for museums in the EU from Brussels for supplies in Europe. museum pest control. For research in a depository, you can either increase the oxygen temporarily or limit it to Our live stock levels show if an clearly defined and accepted short-term stays. item is available. Go to www.pel.eu The fire risk can be illustrated properly by an event which took place exactly one year ago: when the de- pository of the “Museum of Chinese in the America” ​​ (MOCA) in Manhattan blow up in flames. Everything here Photo: Google ARTS AND CULTURE/ Nancy Yao Maasbach was packed in acid-free cardboard boxes. Parts of the For more pictures and videos see: https://artsandculture. archives were shelved in wooden bookstalls, lots of the google.com/exhibit/trial-by-fire-the-race-to-save-200- objects were made of paper and wood. Lot of objects years-of-chinese-american-history/lwIC-1BbSBEkJg 3 ExpoTime!, double issue December 2020/January 2021 pel-collageindd.indd 1 15/11/2018 10:56:58 Contents Preparing spectacular visits 6-10 Utz Anhalt World Heritage site Bisotun, Iran: Where 4000 years join in one place 12-19 Claudia Glashauser Augustusburg Castle, Scharfenstein Castle and Lichtenwalde Castle: The-Must-See-Three of Saxony New museums 20-22 Franziska Martin; Nina Helten; Bjoern Quellenberg Kunsthaus Zurich: the David Chipperfield extension is complete 23-27 Caroline Shapiro Renewal and conservation of the Jerusalem’s Tower of David 2020-2022 28-30 Wolf Schiantir David Adjaye reveals first ideas of an Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA) at Benin City New exhibitions 32-36 Alexandra Orth Tales from the Sewing Room. An interview with fashion collector Ralf Schmitt, curator of the coming exhibition “Dress Codes: Fashion for Special Occasions from 1770 to the Present Day” at Kunstsammlungen & Museen Augsburg 37-39 Peter Nömaier and team of Sigmund Freud museum, Vienna Online exhibition of the closed special exhibition: Analysis Interminable. Psychoanalytical Schools of Thought After Freud 40-43 Caecilia Barani and team of the MAK Vienna Woman Artists of the Wiener Werkstätten at MAK Vienna, 21 April – 3 October 2021 45 Discussions from professional lists. This time: Scanning problems 46-48 Repair your network 49-50 A schedule for activists Conservational projects 52-59 Terra Huber Conservation treatment and digitisation of posters for the exhibition “Toulouse-Lautrec and the Stars of Paris” 60-64 Paul-Bernhard Eipper The conservation of torn canvasses, part II 66-76 Christian Mueller-Straten “If it’s not a fake.” Notes on the oldest European book with an original cover The dark side of art 77-78 Activists take off the gloves 79-81 Christian Mueller-Straten EUROPOL succeeds in three important blows against cybercrime 83 Imprint and contributors The front page shows a cocktail dress by Heinz Oestergaard, Berlin 1954/55. Silk organza, embroidery of sequins and raffia threads, lining: artificial silk taffeta. Heinz Oestergaard is considered to be the most famous and successful German de- signer of the post-war era. In addition to his high-quality haute couture collections, he was keen to create fashion accessi- ble to a broad section of the population. © Collection Ralf Schmitt MORE on pp. 36-40 4 ExpoTime!, double issue December 2020/January 2021 New exhibitions Caecilia Barani and team of the MAK Vienna Woman Artists of the Wiener Werkstätten At MAK Vienna, 21 April – 3 October 2021 The MAK exhibition WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE WIENER almost unknown and at times radical work of women de- WERKSTÄTTE directs visitors’ attention to the hitherto signers in Vienna between 1900 and 1930, which helped underappreciated women designers who significantly to establish the WW’s prominent position between Art broadened the Wiener Werkstätte’s creative spectrum. Nouveau and Bauhaus. The accomplishments of the male artists of the Wie- ner Werkstätte (“WW”, 1903–1932) — principally Josef The impressive exhibition testifies to the women design- Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Dagobert Peche — enjoy ers’ inventiveness and their instrumental involvement in global fame. In contrast, the women artists of the WW the development of Viennese arts and crafts. Arranged have met with only sporadic interest to date. Gudrun both chronologically and thematically, the MAK show Baudisch, Vally Wieselthier, and Mathilde Flögl are well traces the women artists’ path from their training to known. But who were Martha Alber, Rose Krenn, and their reception in the 1920ies. The MAK accomplished a Anny Wirth? Over 600 exhibits provide an insight into the pioneering feat while conducting the research for WOM- Photography, 1924: Charlotte Billwiller, Mathilde Flögl, Susi Singer, Marianne Leisching und Maria Likarz. © MAK 40 ExpoTime!, double issue December 2020/January 2021 New exhibitions Clara Posnanski: WW swatch „Dornbach“, 1928. © MAK/Kristina Wissik 41 ExpoTime!, double issue December 2020/January 2021 New exhibitions under the director Felician von Myrbach, who was ap- pointed in 1899. He also engaged the Secession artists Hoffmann and Moser as heads of the architecture and painting schools. In line with the idea of the Gesamt- kunstwerk they extended their teaching to all aspects of decorative art and included their female students in their collaborations with producers. Many of the resulting works have been incorporated in the exhibition, including sets by Jutta Sika and Therese Trethan, executed by the porcelain manufactory Josef Böck, and fabric patterns by Else Unger, executed by Joh. Backhausen & Söhne. Unger also designed furni- ture, Gisela von Falke striking ceramics. Together with Marietta Peyfuss and five fellow students, they found- ed the association “Wiener Kunst im Hause” (Viennese Art for the Home) in 1901, a direct precursor of Wiener Werkstätte. First Works for the Wiener Werkstätte The MAK exhibition opens with the earliest works by the women artists of the WW, such as designs for postcards sold by the WW from 1907. Their subjects are congrat- ulations, city-scapes, landscapes, children’s games, and predominantly fashion. Mela Koehler and Maria Likarz were particularly creative in this regard, and they would have a formative influence the commercial graphic de- sign of the WW until its closure. In 1910 the WW opened its fabric department, which was followed in 1911 by the fashion department. The ex- tensive fashion designs are documented by the portfolio Mode Wien 1914/5, produced in large part by women artists of the WW, including Lotte Frömel-Fochler and Rose Krenn.