{"id":7083,"date":"2017-02-16T22:11:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T21:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/detlev.von.graeve.org\/?p=7083"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:54:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:54:30","slug":"is-the-mangbetu-boy-just-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/detlev.von.graeve.org\/?p=7083","title":{"rendered":"Is the Mangbetu Boy just Beautiful? (EX)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Link to Original Text: \u00a0\u00a0 13 february 2017
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A Glimpse of Mangbetu Life
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\"Mangbetu<\/a> The Mangbetu are famous because of their style in architecture, furniture, weapons and tools, their well-known harps, decorated bark cloth, adornments, body-painting, skull deformation and extension of the eyelids, music and dancing on representative festivals.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For a long time in the woody region , the Mangbetu had impressed the German researcher Georg Schweinfurth in 1870\u00a0 with their fifty-meter-wide audience hall.<\/span><\/p>\n

How they got along with the Arabs from the Sudan and the Sansibar coast, I do not know yet.<\/span> In any case, they lost their power to the aggressive Azande from the north-west.<\/span> Later the relations became so close that they exchanged their artists.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The figures are rare and made of light wood.<\/span> The style is characterized by the beauty ideal of the aristocracy and their sense of decor.<\/span> Even their homes were painted with geometric motifs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(<\/em>According to: Kerchache \/ Paudrat \/ Stephan:<\/strong> Die Kunst des schwarzen Afrika,<\/strong> Herder 1989, p.581<\/em> )<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

My interest is the long twilight of ancient African<\/em> art, just as one could call an old European<\/em> .<\/span> They are still found in the village<\/em> without electricity and traffic, but especially at the edges of the respective Megapolis, such as Kinshasa.<\/em><\/span> There are also new African artists‘<\/em> careers: you just have to make some culinary tradition!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Schmalenbach<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Schmalenbach \/ Barbier-Mueller, cat.190 neckline<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Werner Schmalenbach<\/strong> already published 1988 African art<\/em> from the<\/em> collection<\/em> Barbier-Mueller<\/em><\/strong> , Geneva (no.190) a male figure of mangbetu (61 cm).<\/em><\/span> It has it in itself.<\/span> And I find in 2017 on the market a, felt, half as big (41 cm) male figure, which did not<\/u> succeed.<\/span> Would it have landed up with me?<\/span> It is perfectly typical.<\/span> A boy of irreproachable attitude, with crossed cross and a special gesture of the left hand<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Mangbetu<\/a><\/span>\"Mangbetu-Mann-IMG_8032\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Let us compare:<\/span><\/h3>\n

The two heads:<\/span><\/p>\n