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Art Library Berlin
The Museum of Decorative Arts was established in
1867 under the name “Deutsches Gewerbemuseum” (roughly: “German Museum of
Crafts and Industry”) with an accompanying educational program. It
originally comprised, in addition to a library of works about art and art
history, graphic art collections which were intended to serve as models
and inspiration for craftspersons and architects. Textbooks and
photographs relating to architecture, designs for and examples of
decorative painting as interior decoration and on façades, stage sets, as
well as textbooks and sample books for script and typography constitute
core areas of the ornamental prints collection.
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UPM
Prague
The Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague – the most
comprehensive applied arts collection in the Czech Republic – possesses,
in addition to other holdings such as glass, fashions, furniture, posters
or photography, an extensive collection of drawings and graphic arts
prints, treatises, and folios of calligraphic specimens, which today
represents invaluable source material for art history research.
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MAK
Vienna
The collection of ornamental prints at the MAK
comprises 17,400 prints dating from the 15th to the early 19th centuries.
Important painters and graphic artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Peter
Flötner, Cornelis Bos, Jacques Ducerceau or Jean Bérain created graphic
art prints, among them numerous ornamental designs. Today, ornamental
prints are being reevaluated from a variety of aspects as important
research sources for art history, history in general and cultural
studies.
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