Article ID: CBB118551067

Von Grubenpferden und Blauen Reitern 100 Jahre Stadt Penzberg – Kohle und Kunst (Of pit ponies and “Der Blaue Reiter” Penzberg celebrates 100 years of coal and art) (2020)

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In the Ruhr and other major mining districts, heavy industry quickly made its mark on regions that had originally been devoted to agriculture. As nature was forced into retreat, chimneys, headframes and spoil tips sprang up. The result was an industrial landscape to perpetuate stereotypes in the public eye, even after the last of the collieries had closed. Developments in Upper Bavaria were quite different. The “Blaue Land” south of Munich is a popular holiday region with an idyllic pre-alpine landscape of mountains, meadows and lakes. The Pfaffenwinkel region is replete with churches, monasteries and sensational views; since the end of the 19th century, its landscapes, agriculture, people and architecture have provided the subject matter for visual artists. There is nothing to remind the visitor of the coal mines that appeared in the 16th century and only shut down some 50 years ago. Although the industry left the landscape largely unchanged, it had given rise to mining towns with their own collieries. Taking the example of Penzberg, which received its town charter a hundred years ago (in 1919, during the time of the Weimar Republic), the paper offers insights into one aspect of bituminous coal (“pitch coal”) mining in Upper Bavaria, with reference to the works of the painter Heinrich Campendonk which were produced here.

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Authors & Contributors
Barak, On
Bleidick, Dietmar
Bonehill, John
Cheney, Liana De Girolami
Kwa, Chunglin
Marsh, Joanna
Journals
IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte
Der Anschnitt. Zeitschrift für Montangeschichte
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Journal of Global History
Publishers
Olschki
University of California Press
Amsterdam University Press
Brill
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Concepts
Painters and painting
Coal Industry
Landscape; landscapes
Visual representation; visual communication
Science and art
Mines and mining
People
Galilei, Galileo
Heade, Martin Johnson
Rockman, Alexis
Stephen Crane
Filippino Lippi
John Quidor
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
17th century
18th century
Renaissance
15th century
Places
Pennsylvania (U.S.)
Germany
Italy
United States
Great Britain
Silesia (Poland and Germany)
Institutions
Consolidation Coal Company
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