International Panorama Council

The International Panorama Council [Fact sheet International Panorama Council [http://www.innsbruck-panorama.eu/Doc/H1.pdf] ] is a global network involving museum directors, managers, artists, restorers and historians who deal with the historical or the contemporary art and media forms of the Panorama. As an NGO it comprises about 230 members from all over the world who are either representatives of museums and research institutes or private researchers and enthusiasts.The organisation was founded in 1992 as the 'European Panorama Conference' in Szeged/Hungary and renamed in 1998 at Altoetting/Germany the 'International Panorama Conference'. Since 2003 the organisation is called International Panorama Council.

Main goals

The main goals of IPC are to ensure the conservation of surviving historical panoramas and cycloramas, to extend and to distribute the knowledge of the panorama phenomenon and to develop new initiatives for the panorama in a contemporary context.The International Panorama Council actively supports the preservation of historical panoramas and cycloramas. In 2007 and 2008 it started a lobbying campaign to save the endangered panorama painting and building [campaign in Innsbruck/Austria: media articles in "Kronenzeitung" on March 27, 2008, p. 19 and weekly magazine "Profil" on September 8, 2008, p. 117] in Innsbruck, Austria.The IPC is also currently campaigning to protect the endangered Panorama Mesdag [campaign to preserve the endangered [Panorama Mesdag, call for action by Europa Nostra on the initiative of IPC [http://www.museum-aktuell.de/index.php?site=news&page=9] ] [Website of Panorama Mesdag with information on the campaign [http://www.panorama-mesdag.nl] ] .A further goal of the IPC is to have the important historical panoramas listed as UNESCO World Heritage sites. A first step has been taken in July 2008 when the Panorama Waterloo was added to the Belgium's tentative proposal for UNESCO's list [Belgian tentative list on website of UNESCO [http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/state=be] ] .

Activities

IPC is active in the fields of restoration, research, financing, exhibiting and marketing of panoramas.

Annual conferences

Since its foundation in 1992 annual conferences have been held worldwide.
*1992 Szeged-Ópusztaszer, Hungary: Past, Present and Future of Panoramas, founding conference of IPC as a European-based group of interest
*1993 Bonn, Germany: Sehsucht – Eräugnis und Ent-Täuschung, über die Veränderung der visuellen Wahrnehmung im 20. Jahrhundert
*1994 Wroclaw, Poland: 100th Anniversary of the Panorama Racławicka
*1995 Szeged-Ópusztaszer, Hungary: Inauguration of Feszty-Panorama
*1996 Innsbruck, Austria: 100. Geburtstag des Panoramas ‘Schlacht am Bergisel’
*1998 Altoetting, Germany, The World of Panoramas, Panoramas of the World, 1st IPC World Conference
*1999 Lucerne, Switzerland, The ongoing restoration Bourbaki-Panorama
*2000 Szeged-Ópusztaszer, Hungary, Panoramas and Tourism, PR and Management
*2001 Beijing, China, Panorama Development and Maintenance
*2002 Pleven, Bulgaria, 25th Anniversary of the Panorama ‘Battle of Pleven’
*2003 Altoetting/Lorch, Germany, 100th anniversary of panorama ‘Jerusalem on the Day of the Crucifixion' and opening of ‘Stauffer Panorama’ at the monastery of Lorch
*2004 New York City, NY, USA, Panoramas in the Old World and the New
*2005 Shenyang, China, Panorama Conservation and Restoration Technology
*2006 The Hague, The Netherlands, The Quest for Illusion – 125th Anniversary of Panorama Mesdag
*2007 New Haven, CT, USA, New Perspectives on the Panorama
*2007 Plymouth, United Kingdom, Panoramas in the Virtual World
*2008 Leipzig/Dresden, Germany, Spatial Simulation and the Future of Panorama
*2009 Hawker, South Australia

External links

* [http://www.panoramapainting.com Website of the International Panorama Council IPC]
* [http://www.innsbruck-panorama.eu Campaign for Panorama Innsbruck - supported by IPC]
* [http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/state=be Panorama Waterloo on Belgium's tentative proposal for UNESCO's list of World Heritage]

ee also

*Panorama
*Panoramic painting
*Cyclorama
*Cosmorama
*Immersion (virtual reality)
*Virtual reality

Literature

*Gabriele Koller, (ed.), "Die Welt der Panoramen. Zehn Jahre Internationale Panorama Konferenzen / The World of Panoramas. Ten Years of International Panorama Conferences", Amberg 2003
*Gebhard Streicher (ed.), "Panorama: Virtualität und Realitäten. 11. Internationale Panoramakonferenz in Altötting 2003 / Panorama: Virtuality and Realities. 11th International Panorama Conference in Altötting 2003", Altötting 2005
*Stephan Oettermann, "Das Panorama. Die Geschichte eines Massenmediums", Frankfurt am Main 1980
*"Sehsucht. Das Panorama als Massenunterhaltung des 19. Jahrhunderts", Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn, Basel und Frankfurt am Main 1993
*Ralph Hyde (ed.), "Panoramania! The Art and Entertainment of the “all-embra­cing” View", Barbican Art Gallery, London 1988
*"Tagungsbericht der Internationalen historisch-kunstwissenschaftlichen Konferenz "Panoramamalerei in der Weltkunstgeschichte" anlässlich des hundertsten Jahrestages des Panoramas "Verteidigung Sevastopols 1854-1855" am 25. Mai 2005", ed. Sevastopoler städtische Staatsadministration, Sevastopoler Stadtrat, Das Museum der heldenhaften Verteidigung und Befreiung Sevastopol, Sevastopol 2007
*"The Panorama Phenomenon. The World round!", The Hague 2006

References

Most of the information in this article is taken from Gabriele Koller, (ed.), "Die Welt der Panoramen. Zehn Jahre Internationale Panorama Konferenzen / The World of Panoramas. Ten Years of International Panorama Conferences", Amberg 2003. The rest of the information is cited from the following sources:

External links

* [http://www.panoramapainting.com Website of the International Panorama Council IPC]
* [http://www.innsbruck-panorama.eu Campaign for the preservation of Panorama Innsbruck]
* [http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/state=be Panorama Waterloo on the Belgian tentative list for UNESCO world heritage]