Digitization of the French and Japanese Prints and Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings at Kunsthalle Bremen

该项目的目的是收集不莱梅美术馆版画和绘画部的约17，000件法国和1，000件日本版画，供研究和公众使用。这两个收藏在德语世界中是独一无二的，无论是在质量上还是因为作品的特殊数量。不莱梅的版画和绘画部是德国最丰富和最重要的图形收藏之一，在国内和国际上享有盛誉。它是不莱梅系列的起源和核心，但它也是最不为人所知的部分，因为纸上作品由于其高感光性而只能在有限的三到四个月内展出。该部门的收藏品是从不莱梅的艺术联合会成立以来收集的（不莱梅艺术协会）成立于1823年，是德国最古老的艺术协会之一。法国和日本艺术收藏品的杰出品质是由于这些主要由三位董事组装：Gustav Pauli，Emil Waldmann和Günter Busch在1899年至1984年期间领导该机构。他们利用专门知识、对藏品历史和特征的认识以及与私人收藏家的富有成效的合作扩大了藏品。图形作品将被数字化，并首次系统地纳入藏品数据库。图像内容将使用国际多语言标准词汇Iconclass进行索引。该数据库将是德国为数不多的向公众提供有关作品先前所有权信息的数据库之一。其目的是为这些物品创建一个“传记”--尽可能完整地记录大约1,900幅绘画中的每一幅--从它们的创作到被不莱梅美术馆收购。对以前业主传记的研究结果将提交给Gemeinsame Normdatei（GND）。使用标准数据以及关于获取馆藏的信息，特别有助于科学研究和可持续地广泛获取研究成果，数字化项目将为馆藏的实证研究提供重要的数据库。特别是法国重要艺术藏品的数字化有望揭示重要的新信息，这对于了解在第二次世界大战和战后时期由Waldmann和Busch导演领导的收藏历史特别重要。该项目的结果将发表在不莱梅艺术馆的在线目录中，在Graphikportal（图形门户）和德国数字图书馆。此外，他们将在网上展览和不莱梅艺术馆版画和绘画部的展览中展示他们特定的艺术历史联系。

The aim of the project is to digitize about 17,000 French and 1,000 Japanese prints of the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Kunsthalle Bremen and to make them available for research and the general public. These two collections are unique in the German-speaking world, both in quality and because of the exceptional quantity of works.The Department of Prints and Drawings in Bremen is one of the richest and most important graphic collections in Germany and enjoys a great reputation nationally and internationally. It is the origin and the heart of the Bremen collection but it is also the least known part, since works on paper can only be exhibited for limited periods of three to four months due to their high light sensitivity. The collection of the Department has been assembled from the foundation of the Kunstverein in Bremen (the Bremen Art Association) in 1823, one of the oldest art associations in Germany.The outstanding quality of the collections of French and Japanese art is due to the fact that these were mainly assembled by three directors: Gustav Pauli, Emil Waldmann and Günter Busch, who led the institution between 1899 and 1984. They enlarged the collection with special expertise, awareness of the collection’s history and character and in productive cooperation with private collectors.The graphic works will be digitized and, for the first time, systematically incorporated into the collection database. The image contents will be indexed with the international, multilingual standard vocabulary, Iconclass. The database will be one of the few in Germany to provide public access to information on previous ownership of the works. The aim is to create a "biography" of the objects – as complete as possible for each of the approximately 1,900 drawings – from their creation to the acquisition by the Kunsthalle Bremen. Research results on previous owner biographies will to be forwarded to the Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND). The use of standard data, as well as the information on access to the collection, serves, in particular, scientific research and sustainable and broad access to the research results.The digitization project will provide the crucial database for the empirical study of the collection holdings. The digitization of the important collection of French art in particular promises to reveal essential new information, which is particularly relevant for the understanding of the collecting history under the directors Waldmann and Busch during the difficult years of World War II and the post-War period.The results of the project will be published in the online catalog of the Kunsthalle Bremen, in the Graphikportal (graphics portal) and the German Digital Library. Furthermore they will be presented under the aspect of their particular art historical interconnections in an online exhibition and in an exhibition of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Kunsthalle Bremen.