Events: 'International Exlibris Exhibition - Civic Museum of Brunico'.

6 July - 26 October 2003

The Civic Museum of Graphics of Brunico (BZ) - Italy, is a public institution supported by the City Council. It's been established by a group of graphics collectors; it constantly works to preserve a relevant number of graphic art pieces by local artists as well as by artists from abroad; it also makes this art to be enjoyed by the public.
At the same time, it develops a continuous cultural activity: it holds exhibitions, personal and collective, of international engravers; it publishes catalogues and organizes seminars and conferences. A society, the "Amici del museo" ("Friends of the museum") supports the museum in its initiatives and efforts.

Hans Hinterhuber, widely known personality in the Bolzano province, man of relevant cultural thoroughness, who has died in 1977, was an enthusiast collector of exlibris. During his life he gathered a collection of around 3500 exlibris, made by the best European artists.
His relatives, in order to preserve this important collection, decided in 1987 to donate it to the Civic Museum.
This was the beginning, in the Graphic Museum, of a section specifically devoted to the exlibris.
To further develop the Hinterhuber collection, in the year 2000 the museum appealed (with the help of the exlibris expert Egisto Bragaglia) to a large number of artists, active worldwide in the exlibris field; It invited them to participate and help build the exlibris section of the Civic Museum, through sending a selection of their works and their curricola, with the goal to have a panorama of contemporary exlibris artists of the third millennium.
582 artists from 47 countries happily answered to the request, they donated a total of 4270 exlibris, for the most part of excellent quality.

From the 6th of July to the 26th of October, in the halls of the Museum, there's an exhibition of a large part of the Hinterhuber collection and of the exlibris donated by the international artists.
The exlibris are on display sorted by country and by subject. There are in calendar, during the exhibition, exchange sessions for collectors, and there are as well some days in which artists will actually make exlibris in the museum's graphic workshop (located in the lower floor) while showing the public different impression techniques.

A catalogue has been published, that reports on the establishment of the exlibristic section.

Opening hours in July and August:
Tuesday - Sunday: 10- 13 + 15 - 18. On August open on Mondays as well;
Opening hours in September + October:
Tuesday - Friday: 15 - 18, Saturday and Sunday: 10 - 12
Entrance: € 2,50
Reductions: € 1,50
Children up to 10 years old: free
Groups (at leas 15 people): € 1,5 each
Catalogue: € 15,00

Museo Civico di Brunico
Via Bruder Willram 1, 39031 BRUNICO (BZ)
Tel. 0474 - 553292 - Fax 0474 - 410685
e-mail: info@stadtmuseum.bruneck.it
Internet site: Museo Civico Brunico

Catalogue data: Collezione d'ex libris del Museo Civico di Brunico, Brunico, 2003,
in-8° (cm.21x21), 228 pages, bn. e col.
Texts in German, Italian, English and French;
Barbara Willimek: Introduction;
Egisto Bragaglia: Exlibris, art and culture;
Hartmann Hinterhuber: Hans Hinterhuber and his collection;
Reproductions in two sections follow: Exlibris of the Hinterhuber collection - International Collection of the Museo Civico di Brunico.
Catalogue ends with a directory of the artists, sorted by country, with number of exlibris donated by each one.

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