Berlin um 1900
(Bilder zu Briefen Hinrich und Mathilde Speck)
Sedanpanorama in Berlin
"Anton von WERNER and 13 other Painters, The Battle of
Sedan, Berlin 1883.
After the Franco-Prussian 1870/71 the "dark side" of the
panorama saw it's greatest popularity. Millions of visitors came to Berlin to
see the zenith of illusive techniques, the Sedan Panorama of 1883. It was a
fusion of art and science, based on the optical and physiological principles of
Hermann von Helmholtz. It was the most expensive image of the time measured more
than 7000 square feet, and brought the Battle of Sedan to the Alexanderplatz in
Berlin.
It's difficult to guess the effect of a panorama on its
contemporaries. They experienced the luminous scenery as a real battle, and the
newspapers all over the country reported this on the frontpage. The Neue
Preußische Zeitung wrote: At first the visitor is frozen... then he's afraid of
the horses and feels compelled to draw back. The air seems to be filled with
swirled-up dust... Trumpets bray and drums thunder."
With calculated precision, both the 360-degree image and the
3D interior concentrated the attention and hooked the observer. The image was
not experienced as a self-contained object; indeed it negated the idea of a
closed work of art, appearing instead as reality - everything was image. The
technique was so effective that even in the 1980s, authoritarian societies like
North Korea, China or Iraq, used the panorama as an instrument of nationalistic
propaganda."
"The Sedan Panorama of 1883 was a fusion of art and science, based on the optical and physiological principles of Hermann von Helmholtz. It was the most expensive image of the time measured more than 7000 square feet, and brought the Battle of Sedan to the Alexanderplatz in Berlin." (sedan-panorama)
Eisenbahnregiment auf
dem Tempelhofer Feld.
1900. Die liebe Verwandtschaft der
Regentinnen Europas. 1914 zogen ihre Männer - vielfach Vettern - in den Krieg
weil das Volk es so wollte - oder das Militär "nicht anders konnte". (e.a.)
(e.a.)