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2022 was marked by the devastating invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops. Millions of Ukrainians had to flee their country, among them many art scholars and artists. We immediately joined the #ScienceForUkraine initiative and welcomed five Ukrainian and two Russian art scholars threatened by the war. more

The BHMPI offers Fellowships for Art Historians at Risk in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus. more

From September 28, 2021 to January 23, 2022, the Sala del Disegno of the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History will host not only its usual art books but also artists' books: volumes transformed into art works by eight contemporary artists. more

Am 21. Juni 2021 ist Annegrit Schmitt-Degenhart, zu deren bedeutendsten Publikationen das monumentale Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen 1300–1450 gehört, in München verstorben. more

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a prestigious Open Competition Grant to the project Visualizing the Unknown in 17th-century Science and Society, a cooperation between the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, the Huygens Institute (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science), and the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, in partnership with the Royal Society and the Rijksmuseum.  more

Sul web oltre 1.000 documenti sulla creatività politico-artistica degli anni '60 e '70, grazie alla collaborazione tra Bibliotheca Hertziana e la Fondazione Echaurren Salaris. Dal 13 maggio 2021 saranno consultabili sul sito della Bibliotheca Hertziana – Istituto Max Planck per la Storia dell'Arte oltre 1.000 documenti del periodo della controcultura, tra cui le opere di Pablo Echaurren degli anni '70 e di altri protagonisti: volantini, disegni, manoscritti, appunti, fotografie e riviste quali A/Traverso, Viola e Oask?!. more

When physical meets digital: Maria Bremer, Tristan Weddigen and Golo Maurer convene with Julia Draganović, Director of the Accademia Tedesca di Roma Villa Massimo, to present the artist book Pareidolia, specially designed by Sebastian Felix Ernst and Christian Losert for our collections.  more