Editorial.

This special issue compiles papers presented at the 2015 "Gottfried Lindauer -- Painting New Zealand" conference organized by the Technische Universität Darmstadt and the Nationalgalerie Berlin. Both the issue and the conference itself constitute an extension of the acclaimed exhibition "Gottfried Lindauer -- The Māori Portraits", shown between 20 November 2014 and 12 April 2015 in the Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin, and present an array of scholarly and theoretical perspectives. The essays reflect in microcosm current larger research and archival work and are thus able to place the work of the artist, hitherto discussed mostly in an ethnographic context, into an already globalized framework shaped by transcultural contacts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]