Barbara Cousin - Drawings

Our animal personalities, 5-day workshop, with the poet A. Journo-Durey, La Source in Normandy (Fr.), 2016 - book edition with the linoleum cuts and the poems - Pic. : La Source

Our animal personalities, La Source in Normandy (Fr.), 2016 - pic.: La Source

Our animal personalities, La Source in Normandy (Fr.), 2016 - pic.: La Source

Our animal personalities, La Source in Normandy (Fr.), 2016 - pic.: La Source

Our animal personalities, La Source in Normandy (Fr.), 2016 - pic.: La Source

Our animal personalities, La Source in Normandy (Fr.), 2016 - pic.: La Source

Our animal personalities, La Source in Normandy (Fr.), 2016 - pic.: La Source

Our animal personalities, La Source in Normandy (Fr.), 2016 - pic.: La Source

Our animal personalities, La Source in Normandy (Fr.), 2016 - pic.: La Source

Our animal personalities, La Source in Normandy (Fr.), 2016 - pic.: La Source

Our animal personalities, La Source in Normandy (Fr.), 2016 - pic.: La Source

Our animal personalities, La Source in Normandy (Fr.), 2016 - pic.: La Source

Our animal personalities, La Source in Normandy (Fr.), 2016 - pic.: La Source

Cunning as a fox, stubborn as a donkey, dumb as a fish… language often compares human traits to the characteristics of certain animals. We ourselves also sometimes like to be as strong as a lion, as inconspicuous as a mouse, or as free as a bird. In this workshop, the children invented their own animal personalities. Based on the French language, the works of the 'Zoo Portraits' by photographer Yago Partal, the portraits of Rembrandt and Messerschmidt, but of course also on their own imagination, the children created linoleum cuts and poems, which were then summarized as a book edition.

That’s why the Nehring Elementary School decided to develop this pilot project  in the school year 20/21 with the artist Barbara Cousin, the architect Thomas Wienands, and the German Children and Youth Foundation (DKJS): « LERNEN+ERINNERN - The Nehring Archive », which aims to create a sensitive, coherent and diverse archive for school and extracurricular projects of the Nehring Elementary School in Berlin. 

LERNEN+ERINNERN - The Nehring Archive, creation of a School archive by and for the pupils with the Nehring Elementary School, the architect T. Wienands, and the German Children and Youth Foundation (DKJS), pilot project 2020-21, Berlin

LERNEN+ERINNERN - The Nehring Archive, pilot project, 2020-21, Berlin - Pic.: B. Cousin