Der Park auf dem baltischen literarischen und künstlerischen Feld der Erinnerung. Auf den Spuren des ästhetischen Erbes Graf Alexander von Keyserlings
2020
Maiste, J., University of Tartu (Estonia). Dept. of Art History
The manor and its universe form its own microcosm in the Baltic cultural consciousness. Flickering stars move in this space as if monads described by Leibniz weaving a rich memory fabric of facts and events. When studying this one must be prepared to open a Pandora’s box that has stayed closed for almost hundred years. This paper attempts to form a picture of one of Estonia’s most fertile cultural centres, Raikküla (Raykül) manor. In the persons of its owners Alexander von Keyserling (1816–1891, a Curonian count, scientist, and man of letters), his successors Julie Helene von Taube (1860–1930, lady of the manor from Järvakandi), her son Otto Alexander von Taube (1879–1973), Alexander’s grandson Hermann von Keyserling (1880–1956), and his son Arnold von Keyserling (1922–2005), Raikküla highlights a manor landscape that is formed by “philosohy of life” (Lebensphilosophie) described by Hermann von Keyserling as well as its specific rhetoric of space — all that endows a deeper metaphysical meaning to physical marks. Having emerged in the 18th century from the English tradition of the Picturesque, the Keyserling Umwelt entails next to the objective and measurable also the immeasurable. Here in the deeper part of the unconsciousness lies a second and even a third World that renders wider meaning to one of the 19th century keywords “Baltic still life” (Baltische Stillleben) as well as truth-value to a statement by Hermann von Keyserling: “Beauty and Truth have altogether different earthly roots.
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