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art albertina - The Art of Drawing
Austria’s newest international art fair offering, the “art albertina“, is specifically dedicated to a medium which has, until now, often played a subordinate role in the art market—drawing. From September 23rd to the 27th, several prestigious art dealers and galleries will be presenting master drawings from every period in the Propter-Homines-Halle of the Albertina Museum.

Klaus Albrecht Schröder, director of the Albertina Museum, hopes to be able to establish a second major fair for the art of drawing with “art albertina“, alongside the renowned springtime fair, the Salon du Dessin in Paris, and is aiming for a new positioning at the same time. Classic modern and national contemporary art works predominate, followed by representative nineteenth-century pieces.

With its specialization in drawing, the “art albertina“ hopes to contribute to a higher appreciation of a generally underappreciated art form. According to Schröder, Friedrich Hegel’s systematic classification of the arts in the early nineteenth century contributed in part to this underestimation. Hegel’s blurring of the differentiation between drawing and sketching fostered a conception of drawing as being a merely preparatory medium. The fact that the term of drawing has changed considerably in recent times has been little acknowledged. Thus, many important contemporary artists focus on or work exclusively in this medium. Keeping this background in mind, it makes sense, as the “art albertina“ demonstrates, to present the various styles of drawing within a framework, thereby bringing attention to an art form which justifiably lays claim to a self-sufficient status. The connection between the fair and its location, the Albertina Museum, which houses the most important graphic collection in the world—at present it encompasses approximately 50,000 drawings and watercolors, as well as about 900,000 printed works from the late gothic period to the present—will, according to Schröder, surely prove fruitful.

"art albertina" has invited only those exhibitors who are intensively involved with the medium of drawing. (sh/jn)

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