Works of art, especially representative portraits, are also used during social conflict. In June 2009 during the “nationwide education strike”, the institution of the university at large was put in the pillory: tuition fees, the Bologna process, the Excellence Initiative and inadequate democracy. On the 18th of June, a group of demonstrators entered the auditorium …
Three-dimensional portraits such as busts and death masks generate a spatial presence of the university scholars. Made from robust materials to endure time, these memorial objects strive to mark individual scientists as significant and to preserve their memory beyond their death. CREATING TRADITIONThe representative showpieces reveal the multifaceted series of images of the University. By …
