
Gottfried Lindauer. The Māori Portraits in Berlin.
Recently I have visited a very particular exhibition “Gottfried Lindauer. The Māori Portraits” at the Nationalgalerie of Berlin. Indeed it is a very particular event – as it is the first time that the descendants of the personalities depicted have, together with Haerewa (Māori scholars and artists acting as consultants to Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki), given permission for the pictures to be shown outside of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The pictures have never left New Zealand because, for the descendants of the personalities depicted, the memory of their ancestors is part of living and the former are always mindful of the bonds tying successive generations to their lineage, history and identity right up to today.












