New publications

Beatrix Bastl / Cornelia Reiter / Eva Schober (ed.), Theophil Hansen und die Bibliothek der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna 2011

This book provides the first historical survey of the university library of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and Theophil Hansen's drawings. There has long been a need for such a publication, which is now finally appearing. The richly illustrated book contains a list of illustrations, a short biography and an abridged list of works by Theophil Hansen as well as a bibliography.

This book is available at the information desk of the university library (price: 25 euros.)

(English version to be released in 2012)

Beatrix Bastl, "Die Herrschaft des Abschaums". Universitätsbibliothek und Universitätsarchiv der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien in der Zeit zwischen 1933 und 1948, in: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Buchforschung in Österreich Heft 2/2012, S. 7-28