German Master Drawings from the Koenigs Collection: Return of a Lost Treasure
Language: English
Published by NAi Publishers / Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2004
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White & color illus. wraps, French flaps,160 pp., 139 color plates, sundry BW & color illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2004 exhibition. These 139 drawings and 3 prints had been part of the Koenigs Collection in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands, until they were seized by the Nazis during WWII. Many were tracked down in Kiev, Ukraine; and authorities there decided to return the art to the Netherlands. "Most of the recovered drawings are by 15th- and 16th-century German artists, including works by such famous draughtsmen as Hans Holbein, Hans Baldung Grien and Lucas Cranach. They have not been on public view for more than 64 years. Fifty have never even been illustrated before and as such represent new discoveries." (back cover) Fascinating. VG ( Bookplate & label & few marks from art-library owner; slight soiling to back cover.).
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- Title
- German Master Drawings from the Koenigs Collection: Return of a Lost Treasure
- Author
- Elen, Albert J.
- Publisher
- NAi Publishers / Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Publication year
- 2004
- Binding
- Softcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 9056624172
- ISBN 13
- 9789056624170
- Seller catalogs
- European Art, Museum Exhibitions - European Art
Published with Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
This publication presents 139 drawings and three prints from a recently rediscovered portion of the Koenigs Collection--one of the world's most important pre-war private collections of drawings, assembled in 1920-1930 by the Haarlem-based art collector Franz Koenigs (1881-1941). In 1940, part of the collection fell into the hands of German occupiers, and after WWII ended, they were taken by the Red Army as spoils, and were eventually rediscovered in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow in 1993. The 142 images reproduced here (50 of which have never before been published) have now been reunited with the greater part of the Koenigs Collection. Includes works by old masters: Jost Amman, Sebald Beham, Lucas Cranach, Hans Holbein the Elder and the Younger, Hans Baldung Grien, Adam Elsheimer, Wolf Huber, Augustin Hirschvogel and others. In his introduction, Dr. Albert Elen, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, describes the history of the Koenigs Collection and highlights some of the masterpieces.
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