| Time: | June 27, 2019, 6:00 p.m. (CEST) |
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| Venue: | Universitätsbibliothek Stuttgart Holzgartenstr. 16 70174 Stuttgart |
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Introduction: Giovanni Masala
Exhibition period 27.06.-11.07.19
Julius Konietzko (1886-1953), a world-renowned ethnologist and collector of exotic art, traveled to Sardinia with his wife Lore in 1931 (January-March), to purchase and photograph ethnographic objects. The photograph collection of his journey to Sardinia comprises mostly landscape and architecture photographs, house and farm scenes and portraits of people. He first visited Cagliari, Sant’Antioco, Oristano, Cabras, Santa Giusta and Milis, before traveling to Nuoro and Dorgali in mid-February.
In Nuoro he met the famous photograph Sebastiano Guiso (1891-1955). Konietko bought numerous photographs from him, mostly of local people in traditional Nuoro dress and added them to his collection. As original prints, these photos photographs are also of considerable documentary value, and even more so because Sebastiano Guiso burnt his entire photo archive before his death. By purchasing the photos, Konietzko saved them from destruction, allowing them to be rediscovered in Germany almost a century later. Many of those in the portraits wore festive clothing and once might suppose that a large portion of the photographs were taken on the occasion of a visit from the Italian royal couple Vittorio Emanuele III. and his wife Elena in Nuoro on 3 May 1929. A large parade took place in Nuoro to mark the occasion and people in traditional dress also flocked to the town from surrounding regions.
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