Newsletter 25 We count on your IPC membership December 2012 Earlier we invited all who have signed up to receive the IPC Newsletter to become a member of the International Panorama Council. IPC International Of course we hope you have decided to enroll, or will decide soon to do so. Panorama Council During the last couple of years the former ‘all-volunteers’ IPC has become a www.panoramacouncil.org professional organization that develops new ties among professionals and supporters of panoramas and related arts and We count on your IPC membership .... 1 techniques. Both your institution and you IPC’s new web page online ................. 1 personally are most welcome! We must stress that enrollment offers you Selling your publications via our web the only way to stay attached to our shop ................................................... 2 community. Only as a member of ‘IPC new Looking back on the 21st International style’ will you continue to enjoy IPC Panorama Conference ........................ 2 advantages such as conferences, information, goodwill and services, and to International Panorama Conference help add new ones: 2013 ................................................... 2 - Access to IPC's annual conference and IPC’s pin of honour to Ottó Trogmayer its discoveries at a strongly reduced fee - Participation in the worldwide network IPC Executive Board: and Damian M. Widmer....................... 2 of panorama specialists and students Prof. Yadegar Asisi Prévost's Panorama of Constantinople - Quarterly electronic newsletter and the (GE-Berlin) - study on display ............................... 2 possibility of entering announcements Dr. Mimi Colligan - Access to IPC's website resources for (AU-Melbourne) Borodino Panorama 100 years’ members, including selling your Dominique Hanson jubilee ................................................ 2 publications (BE-Brussels) Ernst Storm MSc New catalogue raisonné on panorama - Worldwide committee memberships and (NL-Rotterdam) painter F. Roubaud (1856–1928) ....... 2 consulting on panorama related issues Dipl. Arch. Damian Widmer - Professional use of ‘member of IPC’ (CH-Lucerne) Essay on panoramas as measured and, with special permission, the IPC Ryszard Wójtowicz M.A. worlds ................................................ 3 logo (PL-Rogoż) Prof. Martin Woolner Your support for the heritage of the 20th Century in Europe in (UK-Plymouth) panorama phenomenon is of worldwide photographs ....................................... 3 Prof. Sanford Wurmfeld importance. (US-NYC) Matt Morgan’s 1888 ‘greatest Please visit our website and use the membership form on the site for your painting’ ............................................. 3 application: Research enquiry: panorama artist www.panoramacouncil.org/membership/be Joseph L. Rawbon (1855-1942) .......... 3 come_a_member/. The Secretary-General will contact you President: Traces of the Battle of Sedan? ............ 3 upon receipt of your application. Ernst Storm, [email protected] Panorama prototype fusing different technologies ....................................... 3 IPC’s new web page online River Thames panorama project ......... 3 After almost ten years with a provisional New studies and publications on web page, IPC has designed its new IPC Secretariat: panoramas ......................................... 4 presence on World Wide Web www.panoramacouncil.org. The web page Patrick Deicher Quarterly IPC Newsletter Lottery ....... 4 offers far more information. Hochruetistrasse 39 A protected area of the web page is 6005 Lucerne Switzerland programmed for enrolled IPC members only. This protected area is open for the Phone +41 79 637 31 53 publication of articles and presentations in [email protected] .pdf format as well as for images of earlier conferences and meetings. If you wish to publish your article on this protected area, please send a .pdf file to [email protected]. Please help to improve the web page. If you have additional information and materials that might be spread via this web page, please inform the Secretary-General. Panorama institutions, please visit www.panoramacouncil.org, check the information on your art and media form The International Panorama Council (panorama, moving panorama etc.) and is a non-government and not-for- give us a feedback on how to improve the profit association, subject to Swiss web page. law. p. 1 Selling your publications via our web shop Borodino Panorama 100 years’ jubilee IPC’s new web page includes a shop On 18 October 2012 Borodino Panorama-Museum in www.panoramacouncil.org/shop/for publications. Moscow, Russia celebrated its 100 years jubilee and the Besides IPC’s own publications the shop I open for our 200 years commemoration days of the Battle of enrolled members. They (individuals and institutions) Borodino. The panorama has recently been restorated are invited to use the shop as an outlet for their own and the permanent exhibition has been renewed. The publications, granting IPC a margin. For more festivity took place at the Panorama-Museum and information please contact Secretary-General Patrick united officials from the city, authorities and museum Deicher [email protected]. directors from Russia and abroad, hosted by the director of the Museum-Panorama, Vladimir Presnov. The Celebration Speaker Evgeny Gerasimov, Russian Looking back on the 21st International Panorama actor and film director and Deputy of the Moscow City Conference Duma, told very vividly about his visits to the The 21st International Panorama Conference has been in panorama when he was a school kid. Pleven, Bulgaria from 9 to 13 September 2012. Co- The IPC was represented by its Secretary-General organizers were the International Panorama Council, Patrick Deicher and President Ernst Storm, who the Municipality of Pleven and the Military Historical delivered a congratulation speech at a session ‘One Museums, Pleven Epopee 1877 Panorama hundred years together - Panoramas and museums in th st (www.panorama-pleven.com). the 20 -21 century’, preceding the formal The conference was a huge success and the 30 celebrations. The presentation of the new catalogue on participants have perfectly been hosted by the city of panorama painter Franz Roubaud was part of the event Pleven and the Military Historical Museums. More than (see below). 20 high-level lectures were given. The abstracts of the The IPC representatives were invited to visit Grekov presentations are online Studio and the Central Museum of the Armed Forces in www.panoramacouncil.org/pics/files/documents/inform the Russian Federation, with several dioramas on ation_brochure_low_res.pdf. display, both located at Sovietskoy Armii Street in Moscow. In particular Ms. Lyubov Proshina, head of the Information and Exhibitions Department and the International Panorama Conference 2013 director Andrei Sokolov of ‘The Studio of Military Artists Next year’s conference location and date has not yet named after M.B. Grekov’ gave them a tour of the been fixed. We are close before having a contract with spacious studio building, in which many panoramas and a potential local organising partner. We will inform you dioramas have been and still are being created. The on the location and the date as soon as possible. Studio was founded in 1934 by order of the National Commissar of Defence of the USSR K. Voroshilov and named after the famous Russian battle-painter Mitrofan Borisovich Grekov. More than 70 panoramas and IPC’s pin of honour to Ottó Trogmayer and dioramas were created by the Studio’s artists, Damian M. Widmer beginning with the first Soviet panorama of the Battle PC members Damian M. Widmer from Lucerne, of Stalingrad (still existing in the city now named Switzerland and Ottó Trogmayer from Budapest, Wolgograd) to the unique series of dioramas at the Hungary have been awarded with the pin of honour of Museum of the Great Patriotic War on Poklonnaya Hill. the International Panorama Council. The IPC pin of honour is awarded to individuals, to honour their general support and merit to the world-wide panorama community and in particular to secure the future of a New catalogue raisonné on panorama painter specific panorama. Franz Roubaud (1856–1928) Both of them are founding members of the predecessor A newly published book on the Russian artist Franz of IPC. They started in 1992 with meetings of Roubaud (Odessa 1856 – 1928 Munich) whose chef- international panorama specialists. They mainly d’oeuvre is the center-piece of the Museum-panorama concentrated on bringing the east and the west “The Battle of Borodino”. together, on exchanging knowledge and on promoting Eckart Lingenauber and Olga Sugrobova-Roth, two scientific studies on the panorama phenomenon. Ottó specialists in the field of Russian art history, have filled Trogmayer is the spiritus rector behind the restoration a gap in art literature. Russia was missing a profoundly campaign of the Fészty-Panorama in Hungary. Damian researched publication about its most prominent M. Widmer began to work on the restoration of panorama-painter Franz Roubaud, or Rubo, as he called Bourbaki Panorama in Switzerland in the 1980s and himself Russian artist. The battle-painter Roubaud went on supporting panorama activities, bringing in created three major panorama-paintings (The Storming new ideas and finances. Now, he acts as treasurer of of Achulgo, The Defence of Sevastopol, and The Battle the International Panorama Council. of Borodino) and he dedicated a vast part of his artistic output