ANN: Prince Paul and the Prince of Dealers – Lecture by Jelena Todorovic, University of Belgrade (Collecting Central Europe / online – 30 April, 19:00 CEST)
The history of collecting in Europe and even more in the America of the 1920s and 1930s would be impossible to imagine without the figure of Joseph Duveen. Very little is known, however,…
ANN: Iberian Art in Central and Eastern European Collections (Collecting Central Europe / online, 19 Dec 2024)
Collecting Central Europe invites you to a workshop on “Iberian Art in Central and Eastern European Collections” with presentations by Veronika Červená (Lobkovicz Collection), Martyna Łukasiewicz (National Museum in Poznan), two ten-minute presentations…
ANN: Lecture – Emilia Kłoda, Ossolineum (Wrocław), Prince Lubomirski’s Collection (Online, 29 Nov 2022, 7pm CET)
On 29 November 2022 at 7pm Berlin time, Emilia Kłoda will speak about the collections of Prince Lubomirski. Prince Henryk Lubomirski’s collection became the bedrock of the first public museum in Polish Lviv (nowadays Ukraine)….
ANN: Collecting Animals, Collecting Central Europe (Online, 25 Oct 2022, 7pm)
Collecting Central Europe invites you to a workshop on the theme of collecting animals on 25 October 2022, 7pm Berlin time. There will be three short presentations followed by a discussion. To register…
CONF: Collecting Central Europe – Kunstkammer Workshop (online, 24 May 2022, 7pm CEST)
Kunstkammer Workshop with Mark A. Meadow, Renate Leggatt-Hofer and Eliška Zlatohlávková24.Mai.2022 07:00 PM in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rom, Stockholm, Wien Kunstkammer Workshop:Four short presentations followed by live discussion and Q&A.
ANN: Emperor Rudolf II’s Paintings Collection Revisited: New Ideas and Perspectives – Lecture by Štěpán Vácha (Collecting Central Europe, 22 Mar 2022, 7pm; online)
Rudolf’s art collections represent an extensive field of research with a wide range of opinions. The current discourse oscillates between the idea of a private museum accessible only to the emperor and court artists…
ANN: Amber Collections Workshop with Ruth Sargent Noyes, Tomasz Grusiecki and Rachel King (online / Collecting Central Europe, 22 Feb, 7pm CET)
The workshop features three ten-minute presentations followed by discussion: – Ruth Sargent Noyes (National Museum of Denmark): Amber materialities of Sanctity between the seventeenth-century Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Grand Duchy of Florence–…
ANN: Guided tour by Baiba Vanaga of the Rundāle Palace Museum: The Rebirth of the Ducal Residence (Collecting Central Europe, Online, 25 Jan 2022, 19:00 CET)
The Russian court architect Francesco Rastrelli designed Rundāle Palace for the Duke of Courland, Ernst Johann Biron. Although the palace was built between 1736 and 1740, the interior decorations were finished later, between 1765…
ANN: Hans Steininger (1552–1634) and his ‘studio famosissimo’ in Augsburg, Lecture by Orsolya Bubryák (Collecting Central Europe / online, 20 Jul 2021, 18:00 CEST)
The lecture is dedicated to the Kunstkammer of Hans Steininger (1552–1634), a wealthy textile merchant of Augsburg. Although less well-known today, the collection was one of the most prestigious collections of its times in…