[KS] Daedongyeojido at Museum of Anthropology Hamburg, the only Daedongyeojido in Europe

[Kwang On Yoo]

Hello,

Here is more information about Dr. Carl Gottsche original owner of the
Hamburg Daedongyeojido.

" Dr. Carl Gottsche was making two long journeys in Korea at the request of
the Korean government for the pur­pose of scientific explora­tion, a
southern journey between June and August 1884 and a northern journey to the
Yalu between September and November, making him by far the most traveled
Westerner in Korea. He published a brief scientific report of his
obser­vations in a Berlin journal in 1886." *

Carl Gottsche, “Land und Leute in Korea,” *Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft
für Erdkunde* 13 (Spring 1886): 245–62.

Kwng-On Yoo

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Maya Stiller <geumgangsan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> The exhibition displays around 120 objects, depending on the
> exhibition venue. German museums (ethnological museums and art
> museums) hold more than 8000 Korean objects in their collections. It
> can therefore be said that this exhibition merely gives an overview of
> what German museums actually have in storage.
>
> As for the distribution of the catalogue: just ask Ms Min, the
> director of the KF Berlin office: kf.europe at hotmail.com. As far as I
> know, the catalogue can be bought for 25 Euros directly from the Korea
> Foundation. University libraries might receive it for free (I think).
>
> By the way, the curators from ten German museums were involved in this
> major exhibition project. Dr. Uta Werlich (Linden-Museum Stuttgart)
> and Dr. Petra Roesch (Museum fuer Ostasiatische Kunst Cologne) greatly
> contributed to the success of this exhibition.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Maya Stiller
>
> PhD candidate (ABD), Buddhist Studies, UCLA
> Dr. phil., East Asian Art history, FU Berlin
> herbstmond at ucla.edu
>
>
> >
> > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Frank Hoffmann <hoffmann at koreaweb.ws>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thank you for the posting.
> >>
> >> I would like to add that the book you mention is actually a bilingual
> exhibition catalogue. It is an *ongoing* exhibition, curated by Dr. Ken Vos:
> "Entdeckung Korea! / Korea Rediscovered!"
> >> Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst (Museum of East Asian Art), Cologne,
> Germany
> >> - until July 17, 2011 -
> >> Afterwards the exhibition will travel to museums in Leipzig,
> Frankfurt/M., and Stuttgart (2012-13).
> >>
> >> http://www.museenkoeln.de/ausstellungen/mok_1103_korea/e_start.asp
> >>  (... click small links below what must have been the inspiration for
> Pippi Longstocking's Horatio)
> >>
> >> Further info, Korea Foundation Newsletter:
> >>
> http://newsletter.kf.or.kr/english/contents.asp?vol=158&lang=English&no=2032
> >>
> >> The museum in Hamburg mentioned by Kwang-On Yoo is, by the way, not the
> Museum of Anthropology -- that would be far too politically correct -- but
> the Museum für Völkerkunde, in English maybe better 'Museum of Ethnography,'
> but that is still too contemporary as a term. For a good reason the museum's
> home page avoids to translate the German term "Völkerkunde" into English (on
> their English language pages, I mean). The tradition that these kind of
> museums stand in goes back to 19th century views and German colonial and
> then Nazi ambitions. As a 1980s rock star (Müller-Westernhagen, for my
> generation insiders...he just left Hamburg for Berlin ... but did long live
> at Mittelweg, right next to that Völkerkunde Museum!) so nicely put it:
> "andere Länder - keine Sitten / kleine Hirne - große Titten." That's the
> context Korean and other "non-Western" "objects" from "collectors" and from
> "field study trips" were on display, *are* on display. What you have there
> is not "art" even if it is art, and are not works of "science" even if they
> are: these are by definition "folklore OBJECTS." It is then also no wonder
> that the museum had its greatest of all times during the Nazi period--and
> again right after its re-opening after the war, when people still had the
> same mindset. The museum had been bombed during the war, and a good part of
> its collection had been put into some off-site storage -- for decades --
> still today. They are still today not so easily able to locate items, as I
> experienced last summer when looking for a some art work related to a 1930s
> exhibition. It comes then as no surprise that the mentioned "Taedongyôchido"
> map by Kim Chông-ho was not getting the prominent space and attention it
> deserved, be it because of its classification as a folklore object alone, be
> it because the museum has did not know what they have there.
> >>
> >> Catalogue:
> >>   Within Europe this seems only available from the museum itself--not
> listed by any regular book seller like Amazon. (This is not the first Korea
> Foundation sponsored exhibition where this is the case. It is then easier to
> get the catalog of an exhibition in Germany from bookstores in Korea, same
> here. For an exhibition in conjunction with the 2005 Frankfurt Book Fair,
> for example, with Korea as the 'special guest,' the well-made exhibition
> catalogue became a obscure rarity, a collector's item, even while the
> exhibit was still going on. If some institution spends that much money to
> first propagate Korean culture overseas, it then seems a bit
> counterproductive to "hide" related publications so well.)
> >>
> >> EDITOR:  Korea Foundation
> >> TITLE:   Entdeckung Korea! Schätze aus deutschen Museen / Korea
> >>         Rediscovered! Treasures from German Museums
> >>
> >> 404 pages, incl. about 360 photos, in German and English language
> >> Softcover
> >> ISBN 978-89-86090-41-3
> >> Order through: Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln / Museum of East
> Asian Art Cologne
> >> 25 ¤
> >>
> >> ADDRESS:
> >> Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln
> >> Universitätsstraße 100
> >> 50674 Köln
> >>
> >> Phone: [+49] (0)221-221-28608
> >> Fax:  [+49] (0)221-221-28610
> >> Email: mok at museenkoeln.de
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >> Frank
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> --------------------------------------
> >> Frank Hoffmann
> >> http://koreaweb.ws
> >>
> >
>
>
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