File:Prestigious Stool, Cameroon, Brücke-Museum Berlin, 65052, view a.jpg
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Prestigious Stool, Ebongo’a Bembon, Duala Region, Cameroon, 19th–20th century, front view
Summary
Object
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English: once known creator
Deutsch: einst bekannte*r Urheber*in |
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| Description |
English: Prestigious Stool, Ebongo’a Bembon
Deutsch: Ehrenstuhl, Ebongo’a Bembon |
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| Date | from 19th century until 20th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | wood | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 48.5 cm (19 in); width: 20 cm (7.8 in); depth: 23.5 cm (9.2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
H 89 |
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| Place of creation | Duala (Q33013) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object history |
transferred to Karl und Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Stiftung from Karl Schmidt-Rottluff |
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| Notes |
English: Such ornately carved chairs were reserved for influential people. They often show animal motifs that are associated with certain idealized character traits of the owner. The water snake depicted here is a defensible animal, it probably represents aggressiveness and speed in attacking. Water spirits and aquatic animals play a major role in the water-world cosmology of the Duala. For the Duala elites profited from trade in maneuverable boats in the interconnected waterways of the Wouri River estuary on the Gulf of Guinea. Before Europeans penetrated the Cameroonian hinterland, they depended on trade with the Duala on the coast. At the end of the 19th century, the Western-educated elites from the city of Douala tried to prevent colonial land expropriations by legal means. The resistance fighter Rudolf Duala Manga Bell, arbitrarily executed by the Germans in 1914, has become a national symbolic figure in Cameroon for resistance to German colonialism.
Deutsch: Solche kunstvoll geschnitzten Stühle waren einflussreichen Personen vorbehalten. Oft zeigen sie Tiermotive, die mit bestimmten idealisierten Charakterzügen des Besitzers in Zusammenhang gebracht werden. Die hier dargestellte Wasserschlange ist ein wehrhaftes Tier, sie steht vermutlich für Aggressivität und Schnelligkeit im Angriff. Wassergeister und Wassertiere spielen eine große Rolle in der wasserweltlichen Kosmologie der Duala. Denn die Duala-Eliten profitierten vom Handel in wendigen Booten in den vernetzten Wasserstraßen der Wuri-Flussmündung am Golf von Guinea. Bevor Europäer*innen in das Hinterland von Kamerun vordrangen, waren sie vom Handel mit den Duala an der Küste abhängig. Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts versuchten die westlich gebildeten Eliten aus der Stadt Douala koloniale Landenteignungen auf rechtlichem Weg zu verhindern. Der 1914 von den Deutschen willkürlich hingerichtete Widerstandskämpfer Rudolf Duala Manga Bell ist in Kamerun zu einer nationalen Symbolfigur für Widerstand gegen den deutschen Kolonialismus geworden. |
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Photograph
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English: Prestigious Stool, Ebongo’a Bembon, Duala Region, Cameroon, 19th–20th century, front view  |
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| Source | BrückeMuseumBerlin | |||
| Author | Nick Ash, Berlin | |||
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| Other versions | Prestigious Stool, Cameroon, Brücke-Museum Berlin, 65052, view b.jpg |
The estate of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, owned by the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation at the Brücke Museum, contains his collection of around 100 sculptures and objects with colonial backgrounds. The Brücke artist himself never travelled outside Europe and, to the best of current knowledge, bought these objects in the art trade and from private owners from the 1910s onwards. The collection includes ritual and everyday objects, alongside souvenirs for the Western market. The way they were perceived underwent changes: they came to be seen as objects of art and decoration. Little is known of their origins, the circumstances of their acquisition, or the historical and current importance of the objects. Most of them originate from Germany’s former colonies, thus referring directly to German Expressionists’ entanglements in the often unlawful appropriation of material culture in colonially occupied lands. More
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