Indian Miniatures
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Beschreibung
Carl von Imhoff, a Württemberg veteran of the Seven Years' War and a well-known miniature painter, embarked from Plymouth to Kolkâtâ in Bengal in 1769 in the service of the East India Company. On the ship's passage, he loses his wife to Warren Hastings, India's future colonial monster. Imhoff takes it fatalistically and moves to the Weimar court of the muses. But India never lets go of his ex-wife, son and grandson. The story of the German baron Carl von Imhoff, Marian de Saint Valentin and Warren Hastings has made a few rounds in literature, for example with Macaulay, Feuchtwanger and Brecht. Which modern divorce story offers more?
Autor*in
Thomas Poeschel
Thomas Poeschel, Indienfahrer seit 1977. Bücher: „ABRAXAS. HÖLLEN-SPECTACULUM. Ein zeitgeschichtliches Libretto des deutschen Nationalmythos von Heinrich Heine bis Werner Egk“, „Der Nestor“, „Reflexionen eines einäugigen Kameramannes“, „Die Madonna mit dem Fisch / La Virgen del Pez“ (2019, mit Illustrationen von Jaime de Córdoba), „Bohème, Revolte und Exil. Die Odyssee der Geschwister Olden“ (2024).
Themen in »Indian Miniatures«
East India Company Miniature Painting Seven-years War 19th century divorce Colonialism India Warren Hastings Carl von Imhoff Kolkata Bengal