An Article Published With the German Exlibris Society’s Weblog Recently, on May 1st, my first German article about Norwegian Exlibris was published in the series “Exlibris des Monats” (Exlibris of the Month) on the website of the German Exlibris Society, D.E.G. e.V. The text is my response to a call…
It’s a Curious Thing Dates for Exlibris ––– Some artists make it easy for us and add a date to the exlibris, and we can see it with our bare eyes. Normand Laheld is such an exlibris artist for whom we have dates for his exlibris and can be pretty…
I assume you are! In the Making: Per Teigen I’m working on a longer post about Per Teigen and his 1946 exlibris portfolio. It led me down a deeeeeeeep rabbit hole about Motstandsarbeidet (resistance) in Norway during the war and occupation. There is so much I do not know. Growing…
Questions Abound When you engage in historical research, you have questions. They drive you and fuel your searches, deep dives, and hunts for sources; they also lead you down overgrown or outright hidden paths; and they help keep you on track when you are getting lost in the copious amounts…
An Ongoing Conversation I’m corresponding with a fellow exlibris enthusiast: well, it is safe to say THE exlibris enthusiast, Klaus Rödel. Formerly closely connected to the Art Museum Frederikshavn in Denmark, a major collector of exlibris and exlibrisiana, and the primus motor of the FISAE newsletter, which gets sent to…
1896–1984 The First Generation of Modern Norwegian Exlibris Artists In 1942, when Otto Wang staged the modern Norwegian exlibris in his seminal book Norsk Ex Libris, his cast was entirely male, with two exceptions: Ingeborg Zimmer Blaauw and Frøydis Haavardsholm. His careful selection of artists and exlibris supports his belief that…
Day 5 of my summer research leave On Day 5 of my summer research leave, I continued working on organising folders and files and getting a general overview of what I have on my local drive, what is already on the GitHub repository for the Ethica project and what should…
Day 4 of my summer research leave Today has been a day of digressions and contemplations. The goal was to go through all the remaining files on my local drive and see which ones contain information that needs to be kept and isn’t stored on the GitHub repository for the…
This is a rather unusual blog post: It’s not just about trying to get it clear what the difference between a ‘collection’ and a ‘remix’ or ‘adapted work’ or ‘derivative work’ is in regards to the Creative Commons (short: CC) – it is also an assignment (that will be graded…).…
After doing some exploratory diving into complex network analysis for finding out more about the character interactions in the Innsbruck Easter Play and not really being satisfied with the outcome (Part I), I have decided to continue working with this play and will be writing about it in a number…
It’s been a while since the last post was published on this site – the spring term has ended in June and it’s summer vacation now until August. The perfect time to recap the master seminar and how it was using a weblog for teaching digital humanities! My initial idea…
