Collecting Prints and Drawings
Schwaben Akademie, Kloster Irsee, GERMANY
13-16 June 2014
Cabinets of prints and drawings belong to the earliest art collections of Early Modern Europe. Some of them achieved astounding longevity such as the Florentine Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe at the Uffizi. The fame which they acquired then demanded for an ordered and scientific display. Keepers were employed to ensure that fellow enthusiasts as well as visiting courtiers, diplomats and also artists might have access to the print room. Documenting an encyclopaedic approach to knowledge, prints and drawings often depicted parts of the collection in the form of a paper museum. They spread its fame, and with it the renown of its owner, across Europe and into new worlds of collecting East and West.
Themes of this conference include, e.g., the importance of such collections for the self-representation of a prince or connoisseur; the reliability of the presentation of a gallery’s picture hang in prints and drawings; differences in the approach to collecting, presentation and preservation of prints and drawings in diverse parts of the world as well as the afterlife of such collections to the present day; institutional collecting and cultural sponsors (banks, industry, foundations).
Angela M. Opel (Hochschule Augsburg, Hochschule München), Dürer, Raphael, Rembrandt: The Reconstruction of the Display Collection of Drawings of the Electoral Cabinet of Drawings and Prints Mannheim (1758–1793)
Michael Stoll (Hochschule Augsburg), Postcards from Treasure Island: Collecting Explanatory Information Graphics
Order, Preservation, and Reconstruction
Dimitri Ozerkov (The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg), The Print Collection of Cathrine II (1762–1796) in the Hermitage
Joyce Zelen (Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), The Zobel Album: The Reconstructed Print Album of Johann Georg Zobel von Giebelstadt, ca. 1568
Borbála Gulyás (The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest), ‘Achtet casten, darinnen allerlei bücher’: Prints and Manuscripts in the Kunstkammer of Ferdinand II of Tyrol
Art Historical Approaches to Canon Building
Valérie Kobi (Université de Neuchâtel), From Collection to Art History: The Recueil of Prints as a Model for the Theorisation of Art History
Laura Aldovini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano), Luigi Malaspina Di Sannazaro and the ‘Accessories’ to a Print Collection
Corina Meyer (Technische Universität Berlin), ‘Unschätzbare Dinge. Eins immer besser gedacht und ausgeführt als das andre’: J. F. Städel’s Print Collection, ca. 1500 in Frankfurt a.M./ Germany
Documentation and Academic Education
Ralf Bormann (Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover), Wallmoden’s Drawings Collection at Hannover-Herrenhausen: Towards the Reconstruction of a Baroque Aemulatio of the Uffizi
Anne Harbers (University of Sydney), The Macleay Family of Colonial New South Wales, 1767–1891: Public Figures Private Collectors—Drawings from the Collection
Camilla Murgia (Independent Scholar), ‘But the Question is: Who is the Connoisseur?’ Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint Germain’s Collection of Drawing, 1752–1842
Keynote/Public Lecture by Kate Heard (Royal Library, The Royal Collections, Windsor Castle), ‘That is Treason, Jonny’: The British Royal Family as Collectors of Satirical Prints, 1762–1901
Artists as Collectors
Alisa Carlson (University of Texas at Austin), Collecting Himself: Hans Holbein the Elder’s Portrait Drawings
Donato Esposito (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) as a Collector of Prints and Drawings
Wendy Wassyng Roworth (University of Rhode Island), A Painter’s Print Collection: Angelica Kauffman in Eighteenth-Century Rome
Princely Collections
Miriam Hall Kirch (University of North Alabama), In My Most Gracious Lord’s Study and Beyond: Ottheinrich’s Print Collection
Eva Michel, (Albertina, Vienna), Collecting in the Age of Enlightenment: The Collection of Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen
Cathrine Phillips (Independent Scholar), Catherine the Great and the Cabinet of Drawings of the Hermitage Museum
Image and (Re-)presentation
Maria López-Fanjul y Diez del Corral (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), Drawings Collections and Self-fashioning in Seventeenth-century Spain
Sebastian Fitzner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Collecting Architectural Drawings and Prints: Self-Representation of Princes in the Northern Renaissance
Sabine Peinelt-Schmidt (Universität Dresden), The Collection of a Dealer: Carl Christian Heinrich Rost (1742–1798) and His Collection of Prints and Drawings
Display and Displays
Ivo Raband (Universität Bern), A Forgotten Original or an Original Copy? On MS. Douce 387 in the Bodleian Library: Collecting Early Modern Festival Books
Beatrice Hidalgo (Madrid), The Cabinet Room, Artworks on Display: Interior Decoration Influence on Madrid’s Drawing and Print Collectors Choices during the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
Ronit Sorek (The Israel Museum Jerusalem), Everything in Order: The Prints and Drawings Collection at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem