Exhibition of typography prints at the Dominican Library in Colmar, Saturday September 21, 2024.
Exhibition of typography prints September 21 and 22 Dominican Library
Start and end dates and times (year – month – day – hour):
Start: 2024-09-21T10:00:00+02:00 – 2024-09-21T18:00:00+02:00
Fin : 2024-09-22T10:00:00+02:00 – 2024-09-22T18:00:00+02:00
Stroll through this exhibition of prints made in the spring by young and old apprentice typographers, under the guidance of Charles Kalt, artist and expert typographer.
An operation carried out with the support of the Arconic Foundation, the Association of Friends of the Library and the City of Colmar.
Dominican Library 1 Place des Martyrs de la Résistance, 68000 Colmar Colmar 68000 Haut-Rhin Grand Est 03 89 24 48 18 https://dominicains.colmar.fr/ Recently reopened to the public after four years of work, the restored Dominican convent, a place of conservation of the historical collections of Colmar, is an exceptional site for exceptional collections.
The city library has been housed in a building that was extensively remodeled in the 18th century since 1951. The convent church, built in the 13th and 14th centuries, is a masterpiece of mendicant order architecture. Still partially used for worship, you can admire Martin Schongauer’s masterpiece there: the Virgin of the Rose Bush. The cloister gallery, rebuilt in the mid-15th century, serves as a showcase for one of the most beautiful old collections in the province. Founded in 1803, the Colmar municipal library was originally formed by the union of the monastic libraries of Upper Alsace, placed “under the control of the Nation” in 1789. In 2012, the departure of the public reading collections to the Edmond Gerrer Media-Culture Center allowed the Dominican Library to focus on its conservation and promotion functions for the rich Colmar collections and gave it the vocation to become a first-rate heritage library. The Dominican Library houses considerable funds, among which we can notably distinguish 1,217 manuscripts, a third of which date back to the Middle Ages, 2,300 incunabula (mainly editions from Germanic workshops, which constitute the largest fund of this type of work in France after Paris), 50,000 books printed between the 16th and 18th centuries. In this collection, the 8,000 volumes from the 16th century, again very largely Germanic, constitute an exceptional collection. Also present is an Alsatian collection bringing together nearly 40,000 books and brochures. Finally, we will mention the rich collections of images of all types (engravings, photographs, maps, etc.) in the Cabinet des Estampes.
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