December 1, 2021 // Jürgen Wegner
The life and extraordinary achievements of one Dr.-Ing. Rudolf Hell
Thoughts on one of the foremost inventors in twentieth century printing and on the German association which works to preserve his material and intellectual heritage.
June 25, 2020 // Armin Kunz
Gedruckte Versöhnung
Über die Jahre hin hat sich im Rahmen eines weitgespannten Netzes von Wissenschaftlern und Sammlern eine Art „Triumvirat“-Spiel etabliert. Sein Inhalt ist die Kupferstich-Arbeit von Anton Würth, speziell seine Auseinandersetzung mit alten Meistern des Fachs aus verschiedenen Epochen.
June 25, 2020 // Armin Kunz
[EN] Printing as such is not an art, but an ideal of beauty might still appear after all
Starting in 2007 with two series of engravings that fashioned a dialogue with Robert Nanteuil (1623–1678), engraver to the Royal court of Louis XIV, Anton Würth (b. 1957) has closely studied the work of some of his ancestors in the medium of intaglio printmaking.
July 23, 2021 // Alan Marshall
Graphic heritage institutions and the irresistible rise of graphic design
Why do printing museums tend to overlook graphic design, preferring to use it simply as a means of illustrating technical processes or of providing period ambiance? Why is it seldom presented as the vital component of printing that it has been since at the very least the middle of the nineteenth century? And why do heritage institutions dedicated to graphic design pay so little attention to how the objects in their collections are produced?
May 11, 2019 // Alan Marshall
Between theory and practice: bringing letterpress and digital together in printing museums
An exploration of the complementarities and contradictions of theory and practice encountered by heritage organisations when dealing with the digital extensions of letterpress printing.
August 20, 2020 // Alan Marshall
[DE] Zwischen Theorie und Praxis: Buchdruck und Digitaldruck in Druckmuseen zusammenbringen
Eine Untersuchung der Komplementaritäten und Widersprüche von Theorie und Praxis, auf die Kulturerbe-Organisationen stoßen, wenn sie sich mit den digitalen Erweiterungen des Buchdrucks befassen.
February 17, 2019 // Alan Marshall
In the beginning… Some thoughts on early printing museums
From their very beginnings European printing museums offered a remarkable diversity in their origins - libraries, private collections, commercial firms, trade associations - and in the motivations of their initiators.
March 16, 2018 // Alan Marshall
Printing museums. What’s in a name?
What actually constitutes a printing museum. Just what kind of organisations are we talking about?
February 17, 2018 // Alan Marshall
Tin-printing: an overlooked aspect of printing history
July 23, 2014 // Alan Marshall
Printing museums and heritage workshops
September 11, 2012 // Bernadette Moglia, Alan Marshall and Alice Savoie
Le patrimoine typographique
Un aperçu de la typographie, ce que c'est, pourquoi elle est importante, est les difficultés que peuvent soulever la conservation et l'exploitation du patrimoine typographique.
September 11, 2012 // Bernadette Moglia, Alice Savoie and Alan Marshall
[EN] Our typographical heritage
A brief look at what typography is, why it's important, and the problems involved in preserving and exploiting typographical artefacts of the past.
September 26, 2008 // Alan Marshall
Learning to live with the 20th century: printing museums in the wake of the digital revolution
The 20th century seems so much more complicated than previous periods which printing museums deal with. But is that really the case? The 19th century was just as complicated and printing museums deal quite happily with it.