Partage Plus – Digitising and Enabling Art Nouveau for Europeana

Project Manager: Gordon McKenna, Collections Trust (London, UK) / Project Manager MAK: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head of Library and Works on Paper Collection; Project Assistant: Anne-Katrin Rossberg
(funded by the EU’s ICT Policy Support Programme as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme)
 
This two-year EU project (2012–2014) was dedicated to the scholarly research and digitization of selected Art Nouveau-era objects, ultimately providing online access to the public via Europeana, a multi-media Open Access data base dedicated to the collection and publication of European cultural assets. The MAK, as one of 23 participating institutions from all over Europe, thus had been offered a unique opportunity to publicize its valuable and extensive holdings from this era—in particular works by artists from the Wiener Werkstätte and the Secession like Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, or Gustav Klimt. In the course of this project over 4,600 objects from the glass and ceramics, metal, furniture and woodwork, and textiles collections as well as from the Library and Works on Paper Collection were researched, digitized and published online in early 2014.

Project Manager: Gordon McKenna, Collections Trust (London, UK) / Project Manager MAK: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head of Library and Works on Paper Collection
Project assistant: Anne-Katrin Rossberg

Online: 79,500 Art Nouveau records

Over 79,500 digital images and records of Art Nouveau objects, artworks, posters and buildings have been made publically available through the Europeana website. Works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, René Lalique, Gustav Klimt and other notable Art Nouveau figures can now be viewed online – in many cases for the first time.
From the MAK collection 4,692 objects are available.
europeana.eu


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