Papers by Susanne Deicher
Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte
This article outlines a theory of the ancient Egyptian tomb as a material vessel of the pharao’s ... more This article outlines a theory of the ancient Egyptian tomb as a material vessel of the pharao’s afterlife. With closed cavities, openings, and deliberately chosen contents, the tombs were highly ingenious, multi-layered models intended to explore the unknown: what happens after death. A close look at eleven types of steering oars discovered in the burial chamber of Tut.Ankh.Amen’s tomb identifies them as intermediate objects that connect the funerary texts inscribed on the pharaoh’s golden shrines and the realm of material things, illuminating ancient Egyptian expectations of the afterlife.
Ein königlicher Kunstankauf und seine anekdotische Inszenierung-Beispiel für eine wirksame Allian... more Ein königlicher Kunstankauf und seine anekdotische Inszenierung-Beispiel für eine wirksame Allianz frühromantischer Medientheorie und offizieller Politik in Preußen? Die Rolle visueller Medien für die Repräsentation des preußischen Herrscherhauses erschöpfte sich nicht darin, Bilder oder Skulpturen auf Bestellung ausführen
Less is often more - such is Piet Mondrian's approach to art. His main pictorial elements are... more Less is often more - such is Piet Mondrian's approach to art. His main pictorial elements are horizontals and verticals, his preferred colours yellow, red and blue. Throughout his life, Mondrian (1872-1944) applied these simple elements in his quest for "universal harmony". This publication in the Taschen Basic Art Series presents an extra-ordinary painter and art theoretician whose influence on architects and designers is as profound today as it ever was.
Art In Translation, 2011
... prince and an avant-garde artist, who is looking for an accommodating location for his art, b... more ... prince and an avant-garde artist, who is looking for an accommodating location for his art, but does not yet have an adequate list of commissions and is, therefore—just like theprince—powerless within his own realm of art? Buddensieg characterizes Behrens as a “court ...
Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020
Zeitschrift Fur Kunstgeschichte, 2005
The writer discusses philosophical fragments on order in architecture which were developed by arc... more The writer discusses philosophical fragments on order in architecture which were developed by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel during a tour of Italy in the winter of 1803/04. In particular, she considers these theoretical fragments, and the aesthetic issues they address, in the context of the thinking of the philosopher Wilhelm von Humboldt, whom Schinkel met in Rome and with whom he enjoyed lifelong cooperation.
Gottinger Miszellen Beitrage Zur Agyptologischen Diskussion, 2004
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