Douglas Klahr
Biographic Data
| ID | 5943678 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas Klahr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Klahr |
| SIGNATURE | KLAHR D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Arlington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3325-6171 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Shifting scenes of colouration and illumination
Between the invention of photography and the advent of film there arose a singular visual medium: tissue paper stereoviews of the 1860s that permitted the viewer to change a scene from greyscale and unilluminated to colour and illuminated when viewed through a stereoscope. These dual images, photographed using a camera with two lenses, were printed, hand-coloured, and perforated on layers of tissue paper and then placed side-by-side in cardboard …
Palace versus City
Through archival research covering ministerial letters, parliamentary records and legal texts, this article reconstructs an unprecedented delimitation of royal property ownership that occurred near the end of the 450-year Hohenzollern dynasty in Berlin. The property owner was Wilhelm II, whose proposed terrace project alongside the Berliner Schloss raised issues regarding building line, pavement, street paving and the land beneath the street. A s…
Munich as Kunststadt, 1900-1937
On 1 December 2010, the international online edition of the German news magazine Der Spiegel published an article entitled ‘Taking on Berlin's Art Dominance: Hamburg Struggles to get Its Groove Back'. The article chronicled how, since reunification of the nation in 1990, Hamburg and other formerly West German cities that had established themselves as centres of art and theatre during the Cold War were losing ground to Berlin. Although drawing his…
Wilhelm II's Weisser Saal and its Doppelthron
Kaiser Wilhelm II's refashioning of the principal diplomatic space within his Berlin palace was both a political and an architectural endeavour. In his radical transformation of the Weisser Saal or White Hall of the Berlin palace, Wilhelm expressed not only his dual identities as both German Emperor and King of Prussia, but also his fascination with the latest technology. Working with architect Ernst Ihne, Wilhelm created a Weisser Saal strikingl…
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Wilhelm II's Weisser Saal and its Doppelthron
Kaiser Wilhelm II's refashioning of the principal diplomatic space within his Berlin palace was both a political and an architectural endeavour. In his radical transformation of the Weisser Saal or White Hall of the Berlin palace, Wilhelm expressed not only his dual identities as both German Emperor and King of Prussia, but also his fascination with the latest technology. Working with architect Ernst Ihne, Wilhelm created a Weisser Saal strikingl…
Munich as Kunststadt, 1900-1937
On 1 December 2010, the international online edition of the German news magazine Der Spiegel published an article entitled ‘Taking on Berlin's Art Dominance: Hamburg Struggles to get Its Groove Back'. The article chronicled how, since reunification of the nation in 1990, Hamburg and other formerly West German cities that had established themselves as centres of art and theatre during the Cold War were losing ground to Berlin. Although drawing his…
Palace versus City
Through archival research covering ministerial letters, parliamentary records and legal texts, this article reconstructs an unprecedented delimitation of royal property ownership that occurred near the end of the 450-year Hohenzollern dynasty in Berlin. The property owner was Wilhelm II, whose proposed terrace project alongside the Berliner Schloss raised issues regarding building line, pavement, street paving and the land beneath the street. A s…
Shifting scenes of colouration and illumination
Between the invention of photography and the advent of film there arose a singular visual medium: tissue paper stereoviews of the 1860s that permitted the viewer to change a scene from greyscale and unilluminated to colour and illuminated when viewed through a stereoscope. These dual images, photographed using a camera with two lenses, were printed, hand-coloured, and perforated on layers of tissue paper and then placed side-by-side in cardboard …
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Historical Influence and Diplomacy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Accountability (1 works) · Advanced Vision and Imaging (1 works)