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Symposium ‘KWAB: New Discoveries’

13-14 September 2018
Location: Auditorium Rijksmuseum

The Rijksmuseum will organize an international two-day symposium on the occasion of the exhibition Kwab. Dutch Design in the Age of Rembrandt, that is to be held at the Rijksmuseum. The exhibition showcases the most important examples of objects featuring kwab– or auricular ornament, a wonderfully curious seventeenth-century phenomenon characterized by organic and fantastical forms. First developed in the works of the silversmiths Paulus and Adam van Vianen, it later found expression across a whole range of decorative arts.

Thursday September 13

12:45-13:15 Registration

13:15-13:20 Welcome by Taco Dibbits – General Director

13:20-13:25  Introduction by Robert van Langh – Head of the Department of Conservation

Session 1

13:25-13:50  Rob Erdmann (Rijksmuseum/University of Amsterdam) – On  filming Adam van Vianen’s ewer (title TBA)

13:50-14:15  Tessa Murdoch (Victoria and Albert Museum) – Virtuouso chasing: Cooqus and the Van Vianen Tradition

14:15-14:40  Huub Baija (Rijksmuseum) – Old and new research on auricular gilding

14:40-15:00  Discussion

Session 2

15:30-15:55  Jan Dorscheid (Rijksmuseum) – Two carved auricular banisters: wooden foundry        patterns or unique craftwork

15:55-16:20  Arie Pappot (Rijksmuseum/University of Amsterdam) – Beeldsnijders and                  Geelgieters, the use of wooden foundry patterns in the Netherlands

16:20-16:45  Paul van Duin (Rijksmuseum) – Dressed in black. Technical aspects of mid-             seventeenth-century French ebony cabinets

16:45-16:55           Discussion 16:55-17:00

Closing remarks by Reinier Baarsen 17.00-18.00

Drinks

Friday September 14

10:15-10:20 Registration

10:20-10.30 Welcome

10:30-10:55 Introduction by Reinier Baarsen – Senior Curator of Furniture

Session 1

10:55-11:20 Dirk Jan Biemond (Rijksmuseum) – Patrons of Art: virtuoso goldsmiths and their clientèle in the Dutch Republic

11:20-11:45 Jet Pijzel-Domisse (Gemeentemuseum, The Hague) – Hans Coenraet Brechtel and auricular ornament in The Hague

1:45-12:00 Matthew Winterbottom (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) – John Cooqus: Goldsmith to the court of Charles II

12:00-13:15 Discussion

13:15-13:40 Lunch break Session

13:40-14:05 Reinier Baarsen (Rijksmuseum) – Drawings by Johannes Lutma the Elder 

14:05-14:30 Esther van der Hoorn (University of Groningen) – Van Vianen silver in the collection Grill 

14:30-14:15 Eloy Koldeweij (Cultural Heritage Agency) – Reflections on mirror boxes and other gilt leather artefacts, ambitious entrepreneurs and high fashion 

14:45-15:15 Discussion

15:15-15:40 Break Session

15:40-16:05 Ine Castelijns van Beek (Rijksmuseum) – Dutch church interiors: auricular ornament in wood  Johan ter Molen – The influence and the application of auricular ornament in Friesland and Groningen

16:05-16:20 Discussion

16:20-16:30 Closing remarks by Reinier Baarsen

16:30-18:00 Drinks

17:00-18:00 Private viewing of the exhibition

For more information and registration: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/symposiums/symposium-kwab-new-discoveries

Published on May 2, 2018

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