International Conference "History of Map Collecting. Vienna, Central Europe and Beyond".
Concept and Organisation: Silvia Tammaro & Eva Chodějovská;
Location: Seminar Room Nr. 1, University of Vienna, Department of Art History (Uni Campus, Courtyard 9), Garnisongasse 13, 1090 Vienna.

PROGRAM

9:00 Opening
Markus Ritter, Head of Department of Art History, University of Vienna
Tomáš Kubíček, Director of the Moravian Library Brno
Eva Chodějovská and Silvia Tammaro

9:30-11:00 Composite Atlases
Markus Heinz, Berlin State Library
Collectors’s practices: A Composite atlas built on an editor’s atlas

Elisabeth Zeilinger, Austrian National Library, Vienna
Aspects of collecting in the mirror of the Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem

Maretta Johnson, Atlas Van Stolk, Rotterdam/Amsterdam University
Anne-Rieke van Schaik, Amsterdam University
Maps as Memory Mirrors: The Construction of a Historical Narrative in the Album of Willem Luytzs van Kittensteyn (1613)

Coffee break

11:30-12:00 A Passion for Maps. Bernard Paul Moll’s Eighteenth-Century Composite Atlas
Exhibition launch and discussion
Eva Chodějovská and Jiří Dufka

12:00-13:15 Lunch

13:15-14:45 Collectors
Jan Mokre, Austrian National Library, Vienna
Map collectors and collections in Vienna, 17th to 19th centuries

Silvia Tammaro, University of Vienna
Artaria & Comp. and the Market of Maps and Art Objects

Šárka Steinová and Filip Paulus, National Archives of the Czech Republic, Prague
Franz Leonard Herget – creator of the collections of the Czech Estates Engineering School

Coffee break

15:00-16:30 Map Collections: Between State and Private
Martijn Storms, Leiden University Library
The 19th century private map collectors in the Netherlands

Zsolt G. Török, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Concealed Composite Atlases: Maps in a 19th-Century Hungarian Petty Noble Art Collection

Katie Parker, Royal geographic Society, London
The Map Office of the Nation – Collecting Maps at the Royal Geographical Society

16:30 Final discussion

17:30 Guided tour to the Woldan Map Collection
Petra Svatek, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Meeting point: Dr.-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz, 1010 Vienna (in front of the Jesuit Church)
For the visit, prior registration to silvia.tammarounivie.ac.at