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- Title
THE WORLD OF VASTSELIINA ESTATE IN 1913: REINHOLD KARL VON LIPHARDT AS A PHOTOGRAPHER.
- Authors
Spārītis, Ojārs
- Abstract
The main subject of this article is a photo album created by Reinhold Karl von Liphardt Jr, an outstanding representative of the Baltic German landed gentry in Estonia in the first half of the 20th century. In the early 1990s, the director of the "Bildarchiv Foto Marburg" of the Art History Institute of the Phillips University Marburg, Mrs. Brigitte Walbe made the duplicates of the photographic materials from the collection of the Baltic German historian and genealogist Georg von Krusenstjern available to the author of this article. The article classifies and analyses the 181 photographs pasted in the photo album which, with the highest degree of certainty, can be attributed to Reinhold Karl von Liphardt Jr. (1864-1940), the owner of Raadi, Vastseliina and several other estates. Judging by the photographs in the album, it can be concluded that von Liphardt used photography as a means of enriching his emotionally saturated life with yet another means of artistic self-expression. The photographs taken in the period from the winter of 1912-1913 to the winter of 1913-1914, convey an inordinate amount of visual information about the landscape, architecture and society in the Vastseliina manor. Reinhold Karl von Liphardt's photo album presents a series of chronologically consecutive images and it is similar to a poetic "diary in pictures". Reinhold Karl von Liphardt used photography as a perfect means of documenting his ecocultural environment. His landscape photographs are characterized by great attention to detail. The cultural and sociological significance of the rural scenes in the photographs is further increased by the presence of local people in them. The Seto ethnic group lived in the estates of Reinhold Karl von Liphardt and, thanks to their ethnographic uniqueness, drew the attention of an educated landlord. The photos with individual and group portraits of the representatives of the Seto ethnic group are not only vivid evidence of the Estonian culture in the first decades of the 20th century, but also striking works of art, whose power of expression elevates them considerably above the emotionality and artistic effect of Reinhold Karl von Liphardt's lyrical landscapes and idyllic family portraits.
- Subjects
ESTONIA; PHOTOGRAPH albums; ART history; PHOTOGRAPHERS; HISTORY of photography; TWENTIETH century; SELF-expression
- Publication
Baltic Journal of Art History, 2023, Vol 25, p89
- ISSN
1736-8812
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12697/BJAH.2023.25.05