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

该项目的目的是将不莱梅美术馆版画和绘图部的约1.7万幅法国版画和1000幅日本版画数字化，并将其用于研究和公众。这两个系列在德语世界中是独一无二的，无论是在质量上还是在数量上都是如此。不来梅的印刷和绘图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。它是不来梅收藏的起源和核心，但也是最不为人所知的部分，因为纸上作品由于其高感光性，只能在有限的三到四个月的时间内展出。该部门的藏品是从1823年德国最古老的艺术协会之一不来梅艺术协会（Kunstverein）的基础上收集而来的。法国和日本艺术藏品的卓越品质是由于这些藏品主要是由三位馆长收集的：古斯塔夫·泡利、埃米尔·瓦尔德曼和<s:1>内特尔·布希，他们在1899年至1984年期间领导该机构。他们以特殊的专业知识、对藏品历史和特点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，并首次系统地纳入收藏数据库。图像内容将被索引与国际，多语言标准词汇，Iconclass。该数据库将是德国为数不多的向公众提供这些作品以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”——从它们的创作到不莱梅美术馆的收购，大约1900幅画作中的每一幅都尽可能完整。前业主传记的研究结果将在同一规范日期（GND）转发给Gemeinsame normdate （GND）。标准数据的使用，以及获取收集的信息，特别有助于科学研究和可持续和广泛地获取研究成果。数字化工程将为馆藏的实证研究提供重要的数据库。尤其重要的法国艺术收藏的数字化有望揭示重要的新信息，这对于了解瓦尔德曼和布希在二战和战后艰难时期的收藏历史尤其重要。该项目的结果将在不莱梅美术馆的在线目录、图形门户网站和德国数字图书馆中公布。此外，他们将在一个在线展览和不莱梅美术馆版画和绘图部的展览中，以其特定的艺术历史联系的角度进行展示。

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.