Gods in Color

Under the title Colourful Gods - The colors of antique sculpture is shown an exhibition since 2003, which has now been presented in different shape and size in many places. It is dedicated to the ancient polychromy, the colored version of ancient sculptures and architectural components.

Conception

The exhibition is based on research, in particular the classical archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann building upon the work of Volkmar von Graeve since the early 1980s led by the ancient polychromy. Together with Raimund wishes, the director of the Munich Glyptothek, Brinkmann conceived in 2003 an exhibition of ancient polychromy. Here in addition to already reconstructed in the course of research copies of ancient works of art were also shown for the exhibition new works created in connection to their ancient originals or comparable ancient sculptures. Quick, the exhibition was subsequently shown also in other cities. At the instigation of the Bavarian government then in 2005, the Foundation Archaeology was founded to assist further research, but also the organization of further exhibitions. Since 2007 also supports the Leibniz Prize winner Oliver Primavesi with his prize money, the further research. After the exhibition in Munich in 2003, a first catalog was written, a revised version was written for the exhibition in Frankfurt in 2008, a third extended catalog of the exhibition at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin in 2010. Too, the exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University a catalog was published in English. In Los Angeles, the exhibition was part of the exhibition Color of Life - polychromy were to their catalog also written articles in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present in the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Dates

So far, the exhibition has been shown at the following locations:

Catalogs

  • Vinzenz Brinkmann, Raimund Wünsche (ed.): Colorful gods. The colors of antique sculpture. State Collection of Antiquities and Glyptothek, Munich 2004, ISBN. 3-933200-08-3. ( 1 exhibition catalog)
  • Vinzenz Brinkmann, Raimund Wünsche (ed.): Gods in color: painted sculpture of classical antiquity. Exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums in cooperation with National Collection of Ancient and Glyptothek Munich, Munich Archaeology Foundation, September 22, 2007 - January 20, 2008 Biering & Brinkmann, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-930609. . - 54-3.
  • Vinzenz Brinkmann, Raimund Wünsche (ed.): Colorful gods. The colors of antique sculpture. An exhibition of the Museum of Art and Industry in cooperation with the State Collection of Antiquities and Glyptothek Munich and the Foundation Archaeology; Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg, April 4 to July 1, 2007. 4, exp. and revised. Edition. Hamburg 2007 ISBN. 3-923859-71-6.
  • Vinzenz Brinkmann (ed.): Colorful gods. The colors of antique sculptures. Liebieghaus, Frankfurt am Main, 2008. ISBN 978-3-98097-016-7. (2nd exhibition catalog) - Catalogue of the exhibition 8 October 2008 - 15. February 2009.
  • Vinzenz Brinkmann, Andreas Scholl ( ed.): Colorful gods. The colors of antique sculpture .. Hirmer, München, 2010 ISBN 978-3-7774-2781-2 ( 3 exhibition catalog) -. Catalog of the exhibition in Berlin, Pergamon Museum, July 13, 2010 - October 3, 2010
  • Vinzenz Brinkmann, Oliver Primavesi, Max Hollein: Circumlitio. The polychromy of Antique and Medieval Sculpture., 2010.
  • Sabine Haag, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Ulrike Koch - Brinkmann (ed.): Colorful gods. The colors of antique sculpture. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, 2012. ISBN 978-3-99020-031-5
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