Project Manager: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head of Library and Works on Paper Collection; Research and Documentation: Julian MöhwaldThe MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection is in possession of a comprehensive collection of Austrian and foreign drawings done between the 13th and the 20th centuries. These holdings feature outstanding designs, sketches, copies and studies of artisan objects from the Renaissance including drawings by Benvenuto Cellini, Albrecht Dürer, Annibale Fontana, Hans Holbein the Younger, and Parmigianino.The design drawings served as models for wondrous natural objects and curiosities, tours de force of goldsmithing, masterly examples of glass and stone cutting, and small sculptures. Today, relatively few examples of works executed by the workshops in question are extant.One focus of the collection is drawings from ca. 1600, a period which witnessed both the golden era of the collection of Emperor Rudolf II and the nascence of Vienna’s Kunstkammer (the Vienna Treasury). All of the drawings from between the 13th and the 18th centuries have received scholarly treatment during the past few years.Project Manager: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head of Library and Works on Paper CollectionResearch and Documentation: Julian Möhwald
The MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection is in possession of a comprehensive collection of Austrian and foreign drawings done between the 13th and the 20th centuries. These holdings feature outstanding designs, sketches, copies and studies of artisan objects from the Renaissance including drawings by Benvenuto Cellini, Albrecht Dürer, Annibale Fontana, Hans Holbein the Younger, and Parmigianino.
The design drawings served as models for wondrous natural objects and curiosities, tours de force of goldsmithing, masterly examples of glass and stone cutting, and small sculptures. Today, relatively few examples of works executed by the workshops in question are extant.
One focus of the collection is drawings from ca. 1600, a period which witnessed both the golden era of the collection of Emperor Rudolf II and the nascence of Vienna’s Kunstkammer (the Vienna Treasury). All of the drawings from between the 13th and the 18th centuries have received scholarly treatment during the past few years.
Project Manager: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head of Library and Works on Paper Collection
Research and Documentation: Julian Möhwald
The design drawings served as models for wondrous natural objects and curiosities, tours de force of goldsmithing, masterly examples of glass and stone cutting, and small sculptures. Today, relatively few examples of works executed by the workshops in question are extant.
One focus of the collection is drawings from ca. 1600, a period which witnessed both the golden era of the collection of Emperor Rudolf II and the nascence of Vienna’s Kunstkammer (the Vienna Treasury). All of the drawings from between the 13th and the 18th centuries have received scholarly treatment during the past few years.
Project Manager: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head of Library and Works on Paper Collection
Research and Documentation: Julian Möhwald