The fundraising project for the first MKdW children's book has ended.
Art Stories. Through the Museum with Children's Eyes.
A colouring, reading and audio book illustrated by Amelie Paintner and spoken by Vincent Ellmers.
We achieved 100% - a big thank you to everyone who supported us!
It is now available in the museum shop and online for 22 euros (plus postage).
Art stories. Through the museum with children's eyes
Our young colleague Amelie Paintner expressed the wish to realise a book by children for children as her personal project, which every graduate of the Voluntary Social Year (FSJ) at the MKdW can realise. It should also bring her artistic talent in the field of illustration to bear.
After numerous previous FSJ cultural projects such as Tanzende Bilder, Kinder sehen das Seebad Wyk, Kinder sehen Emil Nolde: Die Flenerk Jongen bei Emil Nolde auf Föhr (awarded as finalist 2018 in the MIXED UP national competition for cultural education partnerships), the MKdW radio play Das Geheimnis der leuchtenden Bilder (awarded with the 1. Preis der Bürgerradios Hamburg & Schleswig-Holstein, Hörmöwe Wortreich Waterkant 2021), a large-format book for reading, looking and listening was created this year with our FSJ Culture graduate. Like the previous FSJ Culture projects, the project is in the field of art education.
"The book should be by children for children," Amelie Paintner told her MKdW mentors Sylvia Haumersen, Head of Art Education, and Dr. Christiane Morsbach, Member of the Board and Head of Communication & Programme and Fundraising & Development. "In the process, I want to explore the question of what stories children without prior knowledge tell about the depictions in paintings and photographic works." So, in several workshops in the midst of the exhibitions, children from kindergartens and primary schools on the islands of Föhr and Amrum devised fantasy stories in small groups in front of their favourite works of art. Each group told the stories to the other children directly in front of the original. Amelie Paintner took notes on the stories.
Seven of these stories about historical and contemporary paintings and photographic works - from Max Liebermann to Mila Teshaieva - were selected for the book.
Each of the artworks is presented in the book on two double-page spreads: The image of each artwork is juxtaposed with a biography of the artist illustrated by Amelie Paintner. The noted fantasy story corresponds in turn with an imaginative illustration of the narrative created by Amelie Paintner similar to a hidden object picture.
The large-format reading and audio book also contains a section at the end where the illustrations of the stories are available as colouring sheets.
"What children themselves see in paintings and photographic works, in which there is nothing more for an adult's eye to discover than the sea, is incredible. The free spirit with which Amelie Paintner has approached the artworks and children's stories by drawing is a joy," says Sylvia Haumsersen, Head of Art Education.
AUDIO Children's story North Sea – Listen now
Speaker: Vincent Ellmers