Woodblocks of the Derschau Collection: (In)visible Phenomena of the Woodcut (June 15, 2023)
Thu, Jun 15
|Zoom "Book and Print Initiative"
Book and Print Initiative (BPI), School of Advanced Study, University of London, for Term 3 2022/23. BPI offers informal discussions about all aspects of print and book research, highlighting projects at the School of Advanced Study... Please RSVP at bit.ly/BookAndPrint.


Time & Location
Jun 15, 2023, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Zoom "Book and Print Initiative"
About the Event
The line-up for the Book and Print Initiative (BPI),
School of Advanced Study,
University of London,
for Term 3 2022/23.
BPI offers informal discussions about all aspects of print and book research, highlighting projects at the School of Advanced Study and Senate House collections. All lunchtime talks are free and take place Thursdays, 1-2pm (UK), on Zoom. Please RSVP at bit.ly/BookAndPrint.
Book and Print Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Term 3, 2022/34
15 June 2023
Dr. Livia Cárdenas, Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und Historische Urbanistik - Fachgebiet Kunstgeschichte
Woodblocks of the Derschau Collection: (In)visible Phenomena of the Woodcut
Although woodblocks have recently attracted increased interest in research, they are still among the great unknowns in the history of printmaking. The talk is dedicated to the large holdings of 15th and 16th century printing blocks in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett, the so-called Derschau Collection. It comprises more than 1700 individual objects mainly from German-speaking countries (especially from Nuremberg) and represents the broad spectrum of profane and religious imagery in a wide variety of formats by famous artists such as Albrecht Dürer or Hans Burgkmair, as well as monogrammists and otherwise unknown designers. The variety of specific phenomena of woodblocks will be shown by selected examples.
Sign up: https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/woodblocks-derschau-collection-invisible-phenomena-woodcut
POC: SAS Libraries | School of Advanced Study
Dr Elizabeth Savage FSA FRHistS Senior Lecturer in Book History and Communications
PI, British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant: Fladerpapier: Art, Craft, and the Earliest Mass-Produced Wallpaper in the West
Co-Director, Book and Print Initiative Moderator, Blocks Plates Stones listerv
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Senate House, Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
20% off with the code AFL01 until 30 June 2023: Elizabeth Savage/Linda Stiber Morenus, ‘Pre-Industrial Printing Inks, c.1450–1850’, in Conservation of Books, ed. Abigail Bainbridge, Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology