Original Dürer – Mitmach Spezial
In the organizer's words:
500 years of Dürer and geometry. Old knowledge - new worlds
Presentation of original graphics in the Albrecht Dürer House
Dürer's book "Unterweisung der Messung mit dem Zirkel und Richtscheit" was published in 1525. It was the first geometry textbook in the German language. In it, the artist published, again as the first, construction sheets for Platonic and Archimedean solids and gave lessons in perspective drawing. This is why the "Original Dürer" series is being designed as a hands-on special this time: you can make and draw according to Dürer's instructions!
Class 7b of the Rudolf Steiner School in Nuremberg has already done some preliminary work with their teacher Thomas Kaufmann and will be presenting their results in the Albrecht Dürer House and in a showcase in the Handwerkerhof from July.
In addition to the original edition of the "Instruction of Measurement", Dürer's copperplate engraving "Melencolia § I" will be exhibited as a highlight - the enigmatic mental image bears witness to Dürer's intensive contemplation of art, craft and science.
In this context, the question of what the so-called "Dürer polyhedron" actually looks like when it is not two-dimensional in the copperplate engraving, but three-dimensional as a sculptural object in space, is explored.
The subtitle "Old knowledge - new worlds" ultimately spans the arc to the present day. In cooperation with the German Games Archive in Nuremberg, the use of geometric bodies in games - both analog and digital - is illustrated using historical and current examples. And in cooperation with 1. FCN e.V., the museum presents the body net for a soccer published in the second edition of Dürer's geometry textbook. The soccer on display, signed by the club players, will be raffled off in a lottery at the end of the exhibition.
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