About us
Under the title "Images of Switzerland online" (ISO), the Chair of Modern Art History at the University of Zurich (UZH) and the Swiss Art Research Infrastructure (SARI) are creating an online portal for researching and communicating the historical image of Switzerland using images of Switzerland, namely topographical art and photography from the 18th to early 20th centuries. The latest semantic methods from the field of digital humanities serve to answer scientific questions and at the same time to communicate important museum and library collections in an audience-friendly way.
This portal provides various sources of knowledge with a focus on the Swiss Kleinmeister, a group of Swiss draughtsmen, engravers and painters of the 18th and 19th centuries, in digital form. Paintings, drawings, prints and photochromes are located topographically and linked to written sources from travel literature, materials on the history of tourism and artistic production. In particular, the digital holdings on e-rara.ch and the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland were used for the secondary literature. The project is being carried out in collaboration with the Zentralbibliothek Zürich and the Swiss National Library.
A close collaboration has been established with the kleinmeister.ch website of the Swiss National Library, in which content from this site has been integrated into "Images of Switzerland online", indicating its origin. The routes in the map experiences were largely created in coordination with the Federal Inventory of Historic Transport Routes IVS and generally reflect the routes used in the first half of the 19th century. The foundations of the Inventory of Historic Transport Routes in Switzerland (IVS) were created between 1983 and 2003 on behalf of the federal government by ViaStoria at the Institute of History and the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern.
Images of Switzerland online
Das Projekt Bilder der Schweiz online (BSO) wird finanziert durch die Stiftung Familie Fehlmann.
Projektdauer
Januar 2020 bis Dezember 2026
Projektleitung
Prof. Dr. Tristan Weddigen
Universität Zürich
Kunsthistorisches Institut
Rämistrasse 73
8006 Zürich
tristan.weddigen@uzh.ch
Web
Webseite "Bilder der Schweiz online"
Dr. Michael Matile
Dozent für Schweizer Kunst und Museologie
Universität Zürich, Kunsthistorisches Institut
michael.matile@uzh.ch
Web
Universität Zürich, Kunsthistorisches Institut:
Thomas Zweifel, MA, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (seit 2023)
Viviane Maeder, MA, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (seit 2024)
Sophie Guermann, MA, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (bis 2023)
Ein Teil der Fokusthemen wird von der Schweizerischen Nationalbibliothek zur Verfügung gestellt (www.kleinmeister.ch), beteiligt waren:
Lisa Oberli, MA (MAS ALIS, CAS DMIT), Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Graphische Sammlung NB (seit 2016)
Barthélémy Grass, Dr., Stipendiat Stiftung Graphica Helvetica (2017)
Rebecca Birrer, MA, Hochschulpraktikantin Graphische Sammlung NB (2018)
Antoni Meimetis, MA, Hochschulpraktikant Graphische Sammlung NB (2019)
Simone Gehr, MA, Hochschulpraktikantin Graphische Sammlung NB (2020)
Thomas Zweifel, MA, Hochschulpraktikant Graphische Sammlung NB (2021)
Weitere basieren auf Vorarbeiten von Dr. Christian Féraud (Ausstellung Souvenir Suisse. Die Graphiksammlung der Stiftung Familie Fehlmann, Winterthur, Kunstmuseum 2019-2020).
Forschungsportal
Thomas Hänsli, dipl. ETHZ., Managing Director
Swiss Art Research Infrastructure (SARI)
thomas.haensli@uzh.ch
Web
Swiss Art Research Infrastructure (SARI):
Dr. Florian Kräutli, Knowledge Graph Engineer
Olga Nicolaeva, Data Curator (bis 2024)
Silvan Benz, Data Curator (bis 2024)
Dr. Stephanie Santschi (Projektkoordinatorin, bis 2022)
Design-Konzept und Realisierung
NEXTENSION GmbH, auf Basis von kleinmeister.ch