The Chinese Folding Screen – How colonialism entered into German living rooms
German colonial history in eleven discovered artefacts
Screens, tea sets, spears, shields and parrots: Nicola Kuhn presents artefacts that tell us a lot about the colonial era. Brought back by missionaries, soldiers, settlers or traders as trophies and mementos, each object conceals the tragedy of an occupied country and its people. The artefacts bear witness to the extreme violence as well as the supposedly peaceful coexistence, radical exploitation, as well as attempts at rapprochement. The current owners, who have to find a way of dealing with this legacy, also have their say.
Nicola Kuhn thus creates a narrative panorama of German colonial rule. She believes that after a century of silence, it is time to get a picture.
- Nicola Kuhn is an expert on looted art and a renowned journalist
- The outside world and the private living room are brilliantly linked in this narrative
- Colonial history excitingly illustrated with individual objects
Nicola Kuhn
Nicola Kuhn, born in 1962, is an art critic and has been editor of the Tagesspiegel arts section since 1991. She studied art history and modern history and is the author of several publications on the subject of art. Ever since she began researching the history of 'her' paravent, she has been fascinated by the subject of looted art.
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