Exhibition ‘Goodbye to Icarus: Visual Worlds in the GDR – Seen in a New Light
October 19 to February 3, 2013 | Neues Museum Weimar
Website/Image database Kunst in der DDR: http://www.bildatlas-ddr-kunst.de/
The joint project ‘Illustrated Atlas: Art in the GDR’, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) presented the results of its three-year research and cataloguing work in the exhibition ‘Goodbye to Icarus: Visual Worlds in the GDR – Seen in a New Light’ in Weimar’s Art Hall. In the exhibition and an accompanying website, the image database developed by the project group at the ZZF Potsdam presented using an excerpt. The database was used to catalogue the stocks of art works from 165 museums, collections, galleries, special depots and enterprises of the project partners.
Project coordination at the ZZF: Dr. Jürgen Danyel, Anja Tack, Anna Littke
Dr. Jürgen Danyel
Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam
Office: Am Neuen Markt 1, room 2.36
Phone: 0331/28991-26
Fax: 0331/28991-40
Email: danyel [at] zzf-potsdam.de
Dr. Anja Tack
Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam
Office: Am Neuen Markt 1, room 0.01
Phone: +49 331 289 91 47
mobile: +49 176 60 88 65 70
Email: tack [at] zzf-potsdam.de
E-Mail: fotografie [at] zzf-potsdam.de