Book Description
Perhaps the most significant collection of graphic art in the world, the Albertina in Vienna is famous for the unsurpassed quality of its pieces. It comprises around 65,000 drawings, a million prints, and countless other works on paper, ranging from the Late Gothic period to the present day.
From the Publisher
Durer, Leonardo da Vinci, Rubens, and Michelangelo, Goya, van Gogh, Cezanne, Picasso, Pollock and Christo are among the 68 artists selected for inclusion in this sumptuously illustrated volume. An exploration of the two-hundred-year history of the museum from its founding by the collector Duke Albert to the acquisitions of recent directors, this exquisite book also includes the fruit of previously unpublished recent research.
From the Inside Flap
This volume presents a number of surprising new facts that have now come to light, reflecting the fruits of recent research on the acquisitions made by Duke Albert, his Habsburg heirs, and subsequent directors at the Albertina. The dangers to which the Collection was exposed following the abolition of the monarchy, and again between 1935 and 1945, are also examined. A number of unique historical documents and a selection of the most famous sheets in the collection, exquisitely reproduced for this edition, document the history of the Albertina and the focus of each period of acquisition.
About the Author
Barbara Dossi has been working at the Albertina in Vienna since 1982, and was appointed Curator in 1988. Her main field of research is the history of the Collection and Baroque drawings in Austria and Germany
