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Projects of Analysis • Marienthal-Studies (completed)• Cooperation Wiener Albertina (continuing) • Cooperation MUSA (just started)• MUMOK (future)

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Marienthal-Studies• From 1820 to 1930 "Marienthal" was the name of a

complex of a textile factory and a labour colony in the South of Vienna. At its peek time it employed up to 1,300 workers.

• The area included apart from the factory also social infrastructure, e.g. a hospital and a kindergarten, theatres and facilities for sports.

• During the Economical Crisis in the 1930ies the factory was closed down in a minimum of time, leaving about 1,200 workers and their families unemployed.

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• In this time Marie Jahoda (1907-2001) and her team wrote a study, investigating the habits of the Marienthal inhabitants.

• The study pointed out the socio-psychological effects of unemployment and clarified that longtime unemployment doesn't lead to riots (as many expected), but to passive resignation.

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The political background is charged as well. • While Marienthal in its industrial boom was

an important mainstay of the socialist movement, in 1938 the Nazi Party was hailed.

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Marienthal-StudiesAims

• Students are to compare the "idleness" as an attested result of unemployment with the current situation.

• Via photographs and image editing the pupils are to project their thoughts into the then situation, to internalize and recognize possible parallels.

• The pupils are to recognize the aesthetic features of the photography of that time (sepia-tone, slight overexposure, deckle edge) and to imitate them with the help of modern image editing programs.

• Duration: 5 sessions (4 hours each)

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Marienthal-StudiesCarrying out

• Guided visit of the special exhibition "Die Arbeitslosen von Marienthal" in the "Waschsalon Karl-Marx-Hof", Vienna.

• Discussion about political and labourmarket relevant parallels and personal concernment

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Marienthal-StudiesCarrying out

• Conduct of a photo session in the second district of Vienna: Students reconstruct historical photos.

• Reprocessing of historical photographs regarding bodily posture and expression

• Discussion of the color aesthetics and exposure

• Image editing via online program "ipiccy”

• Editing the prints (deckle edges)

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Marienthal-StudiesCarrying out

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Marienthal-StudiesCarrying out

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Wiener Albertina

Wiener Albertina (continuing)• Albertina => Graphic Art Collection • Research programme by the Austrian ministry

of education:– Students developing a “tour of questions” for

each other to the exhibition “Magritte and the fauves”

– After visiting the exhibition they should create a “poster of fauve”

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MUSA

Cooperation MUSA (just started)• MUSA => Art museum of the City of Vienna • Research programme by the Austrian ministry

of education– Recreating art works of the exhibitions

• Development of a close connection to the project (touring exhibition?)

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MUMOK

Cooperation MUMOK (future)• MUMOK => Museum of Modern Art • Current Exhibition “...and materials, money

and crisis”