Catalogue | Collecting for the Future
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Publishing Year: 2026
Language: English
Pages: 328
Dimensions: 28,5 x 23,5 cm, Hardcover
Weight: 1,6 kg
ISBN: 9783950599947
Collecting for the Future-250 years Albertina
It includes over one million objects, numbers among the world’s most important collections of graphic art and was founded 250 years ago: the collection of the ALBERTINA Museum. This once private collection has long since become a world-class museum.
It is therefore the collection’s beginnings and the collectors’ respective motives that are explored in the exhibition “Collecting for the Future.” What profile was the collection intended to develop, and for what purpose was this collecting being done? Which artists were favored? And when did the largest groups of works by figures such as Albrecht Dürer or Egon Schiele arrive here?
These and further questions will be answered with reference to priceless examples such as Dürer’s Hare. In doing so, this presentation shall train its gaze not only on a great past but also forward, into the future.
This 328-page comprehensive catalogue accompanies the exhibition and features texts by Ralph Gleis, Christof Metzger, Christian Benedik, and Lydia Eder.