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digilibri and the “Liszt Collection” announce a long-term co-operation to host, publish and register the assets in the Liszt Collection with a DOI!

About the Liszt Collection:

Taking the advantage of over one million nineteenth-century engravings and images and over two million articles and books, the ‘Liszt Collection’ narrates the world of yesterday, showing a vast array of subjects and places that have changed tremendously with time. The ‘Liszt Collection’ strives to represent an irreplaceable landmark for making known, preserving and cataloguing the World's society, art and culture of the nineteenth century.

The 'Liszt Collection' is becoming an irreplaceable source of world heritage by the publication of the assets (images and text) as identifiable electronic publications, registered with a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) for permanent referencing, linking and ordering. The collection is currently being put online and will be accessible in various ways.

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Categories:

Engraving, Woodcut
Antiquariat
Illustrations
Maps, Folklore, Travel, Vacation

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The Liszt Collection

Keywords:

Copper, Steel, Engravings, etchings, woodcuts, drawings, texts, 19th century, collection, Liszt, Stahlstiche,Kupferstiche, Kaltnadel, Holzschnitte, Texte, 19. Jahrhundert, Kollektion

Publisher:

digiprimo GmbH & Co. KG

 

 

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The 'Liszt Collection'

A collection of over one million Nineteenth Century Engravings and Images.

The 'Liszt Collection' started of as an ambitious attempt at preserving our history. Over the last hundred years the various collectors set out to collect many of the nineteenth century's most interesting engravings. They
strived for maintaining an exclusive view into a time now long gone by.

Taking the advantage of over one million nineteenth-century engravings and images and over two million articles and books, the ‘Liszt Collection’ narrates the world of yesterday, showing a vast array of subjects and places that have changed tremendously with time.

The most fascinating of engravings can be found in the collection, featuring towns, villages, counties and countries. These naturally include images of New York and London, the countryside in Kent, Britain and the streets of Paris to name but a few.

The ‘Liszt Collection’ mainly covers Europe and the United States as well as other locations in the rest of the world, such as Canada, Australia, certain African Countries, and South America and Asia.

Not only does the ‘Liszt Collection’ visualize the nineteenth century’s geographical locations, it also focuses on various aspects of life in the nineteenth century. Ranging from areas such as politics, fashion in
nineteenth century France and social activities in the nineteenth century German village to areas such as science, hiking in Switzerland, transport and coaches and trains crossing the country side.

In the mid nineteenth century wood engraving was used extensively for the speed and ease with which woodcuts could be produced. Engravings could be made within days of the event shown on the woodcut. At this time very few (mainly American) painters could make a living selling their canvases and many turned to engraving to earn a living. Artists of the Liszt Collection’s engravings extend from J. B. Allan and W. H. Bartlett to R. Zogbaum.

Austrian Hungarian Monarchy

The Liszt collections roots lay in the Austrian Hungarian Monarchy where Gizella Schwarz (1876-1962) started to collect the first prints of the ‘Liszt Collection’. Gizella also loved music, and as family history has it, around 1880 in Budapest she even, as a little girl, met Franz Liszt, the famous 19th century composer.
Over the past hundred years the ‘Liszt Collection’ has gradually been expanded and now houses over one million nineteenth-century engravings, prints and images and over two million articles and books.

The Liszt Collection, an irreplaceable landmark for U.S.A., European and World history

The ‘Liszt Collection’ strives to represent an irreplaceable landmark for making known, preserving and cataloguing American, European and World society, art and culture of the nineteenth century. Historically this is of immeasurable value to the peoples of the world.

For the ‘Liszt Collection’, a diversity of internet platforms offer a great way of getting its collection online.
The ‘Liszt Collection’ is becoming an irreplaceable source of world heritage by the publication of the assets (images and text) as identifiable electronic publications, registered with a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) for permanent referencing and linking. One of the Liszt Collection's main aims is to be an eye-opener, showing a variety of cultures and regions, which will be now achieved through linking in the internet.
It is hoped that by gaining a better understanding of the people of our world, a better connection will evolve.

 

 

Additional:

For all assets in the Liszt Collection reproduction and usage rights are available. For Fine Art Prints and Reproductions we will be pleased to make an offer.

Several sub-collections will be published as Books.