© HLMD 20/12/2023 Blog Mutilated? On the Provenance of 55 Incunabula Pages The incunabula leaves are original pages from printed books from around 1500, which have been mounted on cardboard boxes and provided with an explanatory label.
© HLMD 12/10/2023 Blog Unfortunately not a Leighton! John William Godward’s painting “Unexpected Arrival” Whereas the painting “Yes or No” (1893) has always been recognized as by Godward and possesses a seamless, unsuspicious provenance, that of “Unexpected Arrival” remains uncertain to this day.
© Museum Wiesbaden 30/08/2023 Blog On the occasion of the International Provenance Research Day 2023 The results of provenance research and insights into the history of the collection: Jakob Philipp Hackert’s painting “The Venus Temple in Baja” from the inventory of the Museum Wiesbaden.
© Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt 02/08/2023 Fine presents Prints from the estate of Franz Marc In 1955, four Darmstadt companies (DeTeWe, Schenck, Storm, and Odenwälder Hartstein) each donated a print by Franz Marc to the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt’s graphic art collection.
© Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt 02/08/2023 Blog Remained with the Family: Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh’s Opera of the Seas With the establishment of a separate Art Nouveau collection at the HLMD, a small group of late 19th century English paintings was acquired, including the work of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh.
© Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt 02/08/2023 Blog The Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (HLMD) and the Heumann Collection The HLMD collection includes two drawings by Johann Martin von Rohden and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld.
© Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt 02/08/2023 Blog Provenance research on works on paper from the WELLA collection at the HLMD In 2013, when the company’s museum was liquidated, the Wella collection was transferred almost in its entirety to the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt.
© wbg-Verlag 22/03/2023 Blog Announcement of a conference transcript entitled “Die Kunststadt Darmstadt 1933 – 1945" Erwerbungspolitik, Netzwerke und Akteure in Darmstädter Kulturinstitutionen” [Darmstadt, City of Art, 1933 – 1945: acquisition policy, networks, and stakeholders in Darmstadt’s cultural institutions]
