As a technique, drawing was a firmly entrenched feature of European culture and society from the Early Modern Period until the 20th century. In conjunction with writing, it was the central competence for the acquisition, organisation and communication of knowledge, as well as forming an essential component within the design and production processes found in the realms of art, trade and industry – not to mention its role in everyday leisure activities.

Within the context of the international conference “Drawing Education: Worldwide!”, questions of the historical and modern value of drawing, including relevant teaching methods and materials, will be considered from a global perspective. Which aesthetic standards and stylistic norms were established and maintained throughout the centuries via the teaching of drawing? Which theories of art as well as cultural and social premises form the basis of the different drawing techniques used? And not least, what effects drawing education had on the bodies and minds of the learner – from heightened coordination-skills to the ability to analytically observe the world?

A key element of focus will be not only on the exchange of methods and motives for drawing from the colonial period to the present, including the effects of globalisation, but also on the non-hegemonic forms of debate and development within the context of drawing history.

PROGRAM

28TH OCTOBER 2016

  • AKADEMIE DER BILDENDEN KÜNSTE: HISTORISCHE AULA

9.00 

  • Dieter Rehm (Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München): Welcome
  • Ulrich Pfisterer (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte / LMU München): Introduction

9.30-11.00 Chair: Therese Weber (Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Liestal)

  • Lamia Balafrej (Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA): Between Knowledge and Sensation: Persian Drawing, ca. 1390-1550
  • J.P. Park (University of California, Riverside, CA): Art by the Book: Painting Manuals and the Leisure Life in Early Modern China

COFFEEBREAK

11.30-13.00 Chair: Hans Jakob Meier (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin)

  • Peter M. Lukehart (CASVA, National Gallery of Art, Washington): The Evidence of Drawing in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Italy
  • Nino Nanobashvili (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte / LMU München): Epistemology of ABC-Method. Learning to Draw in Europe

LUNCHBREAK

14.00-16.15 Chair: Barbara Lutz-Sterzenbach (Fachverband für Kunstpädagogik, Bayern)

  • Alexander Klee (Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Wien): Shaping a Common Sense – Drawing Education in the Danube Monarchy since 1850
  • Tobias Teutenberg (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München): The Rise of a Period’s Eye. Drawing Education and Visual Culture in 19th Century Germany
  • Rikako Akagi / Kenji Yamaguchi (Okayama University, Okayama): The Evolution of Drawing Education in Modern Japan: Influences of Indigenous and Introduced Cultures

COFFEEBREAK

16.45-18.15 Chair: Ulrike Keuper (Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München)

  • Johannes Kirschenmann / Caroline Sternberg (Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München): The Role of Drawing within Art Education at the Munich Art Academy, and its International Significance
  • Harold Pearse (University of Alberta, Edmonton): Drawing Education in Canadian Schools: Late Nineteenth to Mid Twentieth Centuries

KEYNOTE

19.00-20.00 Chair: Ulrich Pfisterer (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte / LMU München)

  • Jorinde Voigt (Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München): The Shift

EVENING RECEPTION

29TH OCTOBER 2016

  • ZENTRALINSTITUT FÜR KUNSTGESCHICHTE: VORTRAGSSAAL

9.00

  • Tobias Teutenberg (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München): Welcome

9.15-10.45 Chair: Urte Krass (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München)

  • Veronika Winkler (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München): The Trained Eye. Drawing and the Liberal Arts in the Viceroyalty of Peru
  • Oscar Vazquez (University of Illinois, Urbana, IL): Drawn from Life: Pedagogy and Power in Mexico’s and Spain’s Art Academies

COFFEEBREAK

11.15-12.45 Chair: Nino Nanobashvili (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte / LMU München)

  • Werner Kraus (Centre for Southeast Asian Art, Passau): Drawing in a Remote Place: Drawing Education in 19th Century Java
  • Judith Rottenburg (Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris / LMU, München): L’École des Arts du Sénégal in the 1960s: Debating Visual Arts Education between “Universal Artistic Techniques” and “Traditional Culture felt from within”

CLOSING WORDS