Central European Drawings 1680-1800: A Selection from American Collections (Art Museum, Princeton) - Hardcover

Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691040826 ISBN 13: 9780691040820

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1989

Synopsis

Central Europe occupies a prominent place in many realms of eighteenth-century culture. This volume is the catalogue of an exhibition of drawings, organized in 1989 by The Art Museum, Princeton University, which presents some of the little-known accomplishments of artists from the region of present-day East and West Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and parts of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Providing the first available survey of drawings of the period in English, the illustrated introduction to the catalogue considers the works in historical and artistic context. The book includes important drawings by artists such as Cosmas Damian Asam, Egid Quirin Asam, Matthus Gnther, and Adrian Zingg. Published for the first time are unique drawings by such important sculptors as Georg Raphael Donner and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. The fully illustrated catalogue contains 105 entries, many of which deal with major issues of art of the time and treat the drawings exhibited in relation to works elsewhere. Biographies are presented for all the artists exhibited.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0691040826
• ISBN 13: 9780691040820
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310