Kunstbibliothek’s 150th anniversary is filled with the ABC of travel

18 Jan / 2019 / Scanner /

To mark its 150th anniversary, the Kunstbibliothek is investigating the theme of travel and the trend of the contemporary nomads of nowadays through the exhibition “ABC of travel”.

The exhibits take the viewer through an alphabetical tour of the concept of travel in all its complexity – from A for Album to Z for Ziel (destination). Under C for Cartography, Theodor de Bry’s America (1596) and early map-books meet posters from the 1920s.

Under N for Nations, Baroque playing cards, early books of national costume and illustrated broadsheets divide the world into regional types. Under T for Tourism, travel posters, from 1880 to the present day, capture the longing for foreign places, while V for Virtual presents travel pictures for slide projectors, stereoscopes and dioramas – the forerunners of virtual travel.

The exhibition includes works by Otto Arpke, Marcus Behmer, Peter Behrens, Lucian Bernhard, Bernhard von Breydenbach, Marcel Broodthaers, Cornelis de Bruyn, Theodor de Bry, Flavio de Marco, Emil Cardinaux, Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, James Cook, Josef Furttenbach, Julius Gipkens, Uwe Häntsch, Johann Daniel Herz, Herbert Kapitzki, Julius Klinger, Elli Kowalski, Bernard Larsson, Jeanne Mammen, Erich Mendelsohn, Jakob Mores, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Emil Orlik, Rico Puhlmann, Paul Sachse, Caspar Scheuren, Jan Tschichold, Anton von Werner, Robert Wimmer and others.

Explore this travelling experience till 10.02.2019 here.

ABC des Reisens. 150 Jahre Kunstbibliothek
Banner der Ausstellung
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / formdusche

Lois Gaigg
Lloyd-Express. Schnellster Dienst der Welt, 1929
Plakat, Lithografie, 100 x 70 cm
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek / Dietmar Katz

Anton Stankowski
Sparen ermöglicht die Urlaubsreise, 1954
Plakat, Offset, 83,7 x 58,7 cm
© Stankowski Stiftung / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek

Emil Cardinaux
Zermatt / Matterhorn, 1908
Plakat, Lithografie, 102,3 x 71,7 cm
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek / Dietmar Katz

Jupp Wiertz
Germany Wants to See You, 1929
Plakat, Offset, 99,5 x 63 cm
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek / Dietmar Katz

Albert Knab
Riviera Dienst. Hamburg-Amerika Linie zwischen Genua und Nizza, 1914
Plakat, Lithografie, 98,4 x 73,5 cm
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek / Dietmar Katz

Grafikbüro Luigi Salomone
Hotel Massimo D’Azeglio, Roma, um 1928
Kofferaufkleber, 9,8 x 14,2 cm
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek / Dietmar Katz

Kofferaufkleber, 1910er- bis 1950er-Jahre
Etiketten aus Afrika, Europa, Lateinamerika und den USA
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek / Dietmar Katz