Translated transcription
[00:11] – [00:26]
Welcome to the Nationalmusée um Fëschmaart, my name is Lis Hausemer, I am the assistant curator in our Fine Arts section and right now, I am standing next to one of my favourite paintings by Luxembourgish painter Berthe Lutgen in our collection for Luxembourgish art.
[00:26] – [00:44]
This painting from 1968 is part of a two-piece series, in which Berthe Lutgen deals with women’s rights movements at the time. I would be interested to find out what the other painting of this series is and what other works we have by her. For this, I will have a look at our new Collections website.
[00:49] – [1:02]
I now want to know more about Berthe Lutgen and the works we have in our collection. To do so, I will first have a look at the collection overview, where all our objects are shown.
[1:03] – [1:13]
To filter out the artists and find the right one, Berthe Lutgen, we can type in the name of the artist we want to find.
[1:13] – [1:16]
In this case, the name we enter is “Berthe”.
[1:17] – [1:31]
And there we have her, Berthe Lutgen. As I can see, our collection holds six works by her. There are two from the 60s, which are the two untitled ones, and four more recent ones.
[1:31] – [1:44]
Those are mostly the topics Berthe Lutgen deals with during her career: The socio-political engagement of the woman and the position of women within our society.
[1:44] – [1:57]
If we click on Untitled, the second painting of this series, we can see that it is not hanging inside of the museum. In fact, it is located at in the storage facility. If we look at the location, it reads Depot.
[1:58] – [2:13]
But I would like to have a closer look at the painting. Unfortunately, I can see, that this specific one can’t be downloaded in a high resolution, because it is currently in copyright.
[2:14] – [2:23]
I would now like to know, which paintings by Luxembourgish artists can actually be downloaded, that are not in copyright, but are actually part of the public domain.
[2:23] – [2:35]
To do this, I click on “Collections”, where the different museum collections appear, among those are the Fine Arts. I will now click on this.
[2:36] – [3:04]
Within Fine Arts, we collect in different subcategories. In this case, we would like to concentrate on a Luxembourgish artist, thus clicking on “Luxembourg Art”. Among the filters, I have the possibility to choose “In copyright”, which I will click on. To get the works that are part of the public domain, I will check “No”.
[3:04] – [3:12]
By having a look at the list, we can encounter another artist named Berthe, in this case Berthe Brincour.
[3:13] – [3:24]
Based on the metadata, we find out that Berthe Brincour was active at the beginning of the 20th century. The painting we see is a male nude. Let’s klick on it.
[3:25] – [3:55]
The painting is the representation of a male nude, which is relatively rare, as the usual phenomenon would be male artists depicting female nudes. But Berthe Brincour was one of the few Luxembourgish artists at the start of the 20th century who actually studied at an art academy, in Munich. After this, she also lived in Paris and Switzerland, where she got inspired by Ferdinand Hodler. We can see the representation of a grotesque, almost skeleton-like and sinewy man.
[3:56] – [4:16]
This picture is in the public domain and is thus downloadable. Even if the painting is not visible at the museum itself, we now have access to a high-resolution image. To do this, we click on “Download” and pick the resolution we want.
[4:16] – [4:22]
Thank you for browsing with me and have fun browsing our Collections website.
