History of Collecting/ Sammlungsgeschichte
Collecting Prints & Drawings

13 – 16 June 2014, Kloster Irsee
Excursions to Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München on 13 June and to
Burg Trausnitz, Landshut on 16 June

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 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.

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.

International scholars will be present, the conference language is
English. The programme includes an excursion to the Burg Trausnitz,
Landshut.

organisation, Dr. Sylvia Heudecker, Schwabenakademie Irsee; Dr. Angela
M. Opel, University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg and Munich;
Dr. Andrea Gáldy Seminar on Collecting & Display (IHR)

PROGRAM

Friday 13 June 2014
MUNICH, IRSEE

2.00 pm
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München (SGSM)
Speakers and delegates meet at the SGSM, Katharina-von-Bora-Str. 10,
Munich (nearest tube station Königsplatz U2).

Welcome address by Michael Semff, Director SGSM (DE)

Dürer, Raphael, Rembrandt: The reconstruction of the display collection
of drawings of the Electoral Cabinet of drawings and prints Mannheim
(1758-1793)
Angela M. Opel, Hochschule Augsburg, Hochschule München (DE)

Visit to the collections with presentation of some drawings from the
Mannheim display collection in the Print Room.

Ca. 5.00 pm Travel to Kloster Irsee

6.00 pm Registration, occupation of rooms
6.30 Dinner

8.00 pm
Postcards from Treasure Island—Collecting Explanatory Information
Graphics
Michael Stoll, Hochschule Augsburg (DE)

Saturday 14 June 2014
KLOSTER IRSEE

9.00 am Registration and Welcome

9.30 – 11.00 am ORDER, PRESERVATION AND RECONSTRUCTION

The Print collection of Cathrine II (1762-1796) in the Hermitage
Dimitri Ozerkov, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (RU)

The Zobel Album: The Reconstructed Print Album of Johann Georg I.
Zobel von Giebelstadt (ca. 1568)
Joyce Zelen, Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (NL)

“Achtet casten, darinnen allerlei bücher” Prints and Manuscripts in
the Kunstkammer of Ferdinand II of Tyrol
Borbála Gulyás, The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (HU)

11 – 11.30 am Coffee / Tea break

11.30 – 13.00 am ART-HISTORICAL APPROACHES TO CANON BUILDING

From Collection to Art History. The Recueil of Prints as a Model for
the Theorisation of Art History
Valérie Kobi, Université de Neuchâtel (CH)

Luigi Malaspina Di Sannazaro and the ‘Accessories’ to a Print Collection
Laura Aldovini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano (IT)

“Unschätzbare Dinge. Eins immer besser gedacht und ausgeführt als das
andre”. J. F. Städel’s Print Collection ca. 1500 in Frankfurt a.M./
Germany
Corina Meyer, Technische Universität Berlin (DE)

1pm Lunch

2.30 – 4.00 pm DOCUMENTATION AND ACADEMIC EDUCATION

Wallmoden’s Drawings Collection at Hannover-Herrenhausen: Towards the
Reconstruction of a Baroque Aemulatio of the Uffizi
Ralf Bormann, Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover (DE)

The Macleay Family of Colonial New South Wales 1767-1891: Public
Figures Private Collectors—Drawings from the Collection
Anne Harbers, University of Sydney (AU)

“But the Question is: Who is the Connoisseur?” Pierre-Marie Gault de
Saint Germain’s Collection of Drawing (1752-1842)
Camilla Murgia, Independent Scholar (CH)

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee / Tea break

16.30 – 18.00 Keynote/Public Lecture
“That is Treason, Jonny”. The British Royal Family as Collectors of
Satirical Prints, 1762-1901
Kate Heard, Royal Library, The Royal Collections, Windsor Castle (UK)

19.00 Conference dinner

Sunday 15 Juni 2014
KLOSTER IRSEE

9.00 – 10.30 am ARTISTS AS COLLECTORS

Collecting Himself: Hans Holbein the Elder’s Portrait Drawings
Alisa Carlson, University of Texas at Austin (US)

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) as a Collector of Prints and Drawings
Donato Esposito, Metropolitan Museum of Art (US)

A Painter’s Print Collection: Angelica Kauffman in Eighteenth-Century Rome
Wendy Wassyng Roworth, University of Rhode Island (US)

10.30 – 11.00 am Coffee / Tea break

11.30 am – 1.00 pm PRINCELY COLLECTIONS

In My Most Gracious Lord’s Study and Beyond: Ottheinrich’s Print
Collection
Miriam Hall Kirch, University of North Alabama (US)

Collecting in the Age of Enlightment: The Collection of Duke Albert of
Saxe-Teschen.
Eva Michel, Albertina, Vienna (AT)

Cathrine the Great and the Cabinet of Drawings of the Hermitage Museum
Cathrine Phillips, Independent Scholar (UK and RU)

12.30 Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 pm IMAGE AND (RE-)PRESENTATION

Drawings Collections and Self-fashioning in Seventeenth-century Spain
Maria López-Fanjul y Diez del Corral, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (DE)

Collecting Architectural Drawings and Prints. Self-Representation of
Princes in the Northern Renaissance
Sebastian Fitzner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)

The Collection of a Dealer—Carl Christian Heinrich Rost (1742–1798)
and his Collection of Prints and Drawings
Sabine Peinelt-Schmidt, Universität Dresden (DE)

3.30 – 4 pm Coffee / Tea break

4.00 – 5.30 pm DISPLAY AND DISPLAYS

A Forgotten Original or an Original Copy? On MS. Douce 387 in the
Bodleian Library: Collecting Early Modern Festival Books
Ivo Raband, Universität Bern (CH)

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
Beatrice Hidalgo, Madrid (ES)

Everything in Order: The Prints and Drawings Collection at the
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Ronit Sorek, The Israel Museum Jerusalem (IL)

Discussion

6.30 pm Dinner

Monday 16 June 2014
IRSEE, LANDSHUT

9.00 am Transport to Burg Trausnitz, Landshut

Visit of the castle Burg Trausnitz and the Kunstkammer
Guided tours (ca. 45 mins) of the castle 1.00 pm and 1.30 pm;
guided tour of the Kunstkammer (ca. 60 mins)

Travel to Munich airport/train station

Fees: Fee incl. 2 x full board
Single room: 254,– €/ Double room: 230,– €
Conference fee (excl. room and board): 30,– €
Lunch: 17,50 € (must be booked in advance)
Dinner: 15,– €
Fee for additional night (accommodation until Monday, dinner on Sunday
and breakfast on Monday)
Single room: 74,– €/ Double room: 62,– €

Contact: Sylvia Heudecker
Schwabenakademie Irsee
Klosterring 4, D – 87660 Irsee
phone 0049 (0)8341 906-665
fax 0049 (0)8341 906-669
sylvia.heudeckerschwabenakademie.de
www.schwabenakademie.de