Breaking porcelain : a journey in the curatorship of inherited Meissen shards
Date
2017-03
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Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University
Abstract
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Breaking Porcelain is a personal journey in the curatorship of inherited porcelain shards. A Meissen porcelain collection, once belonging to my great, great grandparents – German Jewish collectors in
Dresden – was stolen by the Nazis, partly lost and partly bombed in the firebombing of Dresden, later
in part recovered from the destruction, and then further held in East Germany until the remains of the
collection, a great deal of it broken, were finally returned to the family. Broken and scarred, the porcelain fragments I have inherited serve as memorials that bear the evidence of their complex pasts. At the
heart of the curatorial project lies the intention to understand the value and relevance of these porcelain
fragments today. This involves exploration into the contexts that informed them during their history as
well as appreciation of the effects they have had on people’s lives in the recent past.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen opsomming beskikbaar
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen opsomming beskikbaar
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Thesis MA(VA)--Stellenbosch University, 2017.
Keywords
Inherited porcelain shards, Meissen porcelain collection -- History, Dresden bombing -- 1945, Von Klemperer family -- History, UCTD