The Mannerist Mind: Prints from the Georg Baselitz Collection

From Parmigianino to Hendrick Goltzius, this catalog presents highlights from the print collections of Georg Baselitz and the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.  

Georg Baselitz and his collection of Mannerist prints enjoy widespread acclaim. This publication presents an extensive selection from his collection, along with works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, offering a chance to compare the character of an artist’s private collection with that of a major institution as a method for viewing Mannerism in the twenty-first century. By exploring how artists have collected old master prints in the past and today, Mannerist Mind both reassesses well-known Mannerist works and brings previously unpublished examples to light. Essays by eminent international experts present the latest scholarship on artists’ collecting and discuss how to evaluate Mannerist art from the contemporary point of view. An exclusive interview with Baselitz reveals the motivations and stories behind his peerless collection.

This book includes masterworks from Arcimboldo, Dürer, Antonio Fantuzzi, Léon Davent, Geoffroy Dumonstier, Juste de Juste, Parmigianino, Andrea Schiavone, Ugo da Carpi, Domenico Beccafumi, Hendrick Goltzius, Lucas Cranach, Hans Sebald Beham, and many more.

Eszter Kardos is an art historian and a curator of old master prints and drawings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. She curated and provided supporting research for several exhibitions of prints and drawings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, and contributed to their catalogs. She coauthored the museum’s online catalog of Italian and French Renaissance prints. 

Kinga Bódi is an art historian and curator of old master prints and drawings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. She received her PhD in art history from ELTE University and is a former fellow at the Swiss Institute for Art Research in Zurich. She has organized several exhibitions on the topic of Hungarian and international postwar art.

Daniel Blau opened his gallery for modern and contemporary art in Munich in 1990 and specializes in works on paper and early photography.