Plaster cast#Cast collections

A cast collection retains copies of historically significant art sculptures and presents them to the interested public for study purposes. The origin of this presentation of art in the form of replicas goes back to the late 18th century and was based on the desire, especially ancient sculptures also north of the Alps and to be able to show a direct comparison. The copies were usually made ​​of plaster and 1:1 scale. However, an exact replica was not necessarily the goal. Sometimes the size or even details of the preparation have been adapted to the requirements of the respective presentation. Casting collections were shown in their own museums, but also created for teaching purposes at art academies, archaeological and art history departments. Many collections that are independent today were originally founded at universities or academies. By his own admission, the oldest and largest collection of casts in Germany is part of the University of Bonn. For archeology, the advantage lies in the possibility of a three-dimensional view, which are not able to provide other visual media.

In the 19th century casting collections of the most important monuments of the country have created ( for example, in Paris and London) in the capitals of some European nation-states.

Due to changes in the aesthetics of the 20th century casting collections were neglected. They were regarded as relics of a dusty ideal of education and lifeless academicism. Some large collections, such as the Brooklyn Museum of Art, were completely abandoned, others, like the collection in Leipzig had to suffer the consequences of war, poor housing and little interest in their partner institutions, as well as the public. This situation changed fundamentally only in the last decade of the 20th century.

Today, the cast has been recognized as an instrument of merchandising from the major museums. In the museum shop not only finished castings central works in the collection are sold in plaster or resin. Special casting workshops also make copies as desired.

Gipsformerei, the National Museums in Berlin, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

  • Skulpturhalle Basel
  • Musée des Monuments français, Paris
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  • Cast Collection Medieval sculptures monastery Asbach, branch museum of the Bavarian National Museum, Munich
  • Cast Collection of Ancient Sculpture Berlin
  • Academic Art Museum, Bonn
  • Archaeological Institute of the University of Frankfurt am Main
  • Museum of Casts Classic sculptures, Munich
  • Gypsum collection of the University of Erlangen
  • Cast Collection of the University of Marburg
  • Cast Collection Museum Schloss Hohentübingen
  • Cast Collection in the Museum of Antiquities, University of Heidelberg
  • Cast Collection of the Archaeological Museum of the Westfälische Wilhelms -Universität Münster
  • Archaeological Collection of the University of Zurich
  • Antikensammlung Bern, Bern
  • Cast Collection at the University of Leipzig
  • Cast Collection at the University of Göttingen
  • Antikensammlung Kiel
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