ÖSTERREICHISCHE EXLIBRIS-GESELLSCHAFT Sekretariat und Redaktion der Mitteilungen: Peter Rath, A 1120 Wien, Edelsinnstraße 66, Tel.: 0043/676/54 15 056, e-mail: rath.p@aon.at    Dear Ex-libris friends, Our biannual meeting in 2009 will not take place in Steyr, but in Vienna. The time of the meeting has been fixed for the weekend from Friday, 9th Oct. to Sunday, 11th Oct. 2009. For those who arrive earlier there will be an evening meeting on Thursday, 8th Oct. Apart from the Friday programme in the Austrian National Library and in the Museum for Applied Art there will be another highlight in the provisional programme. From 18th Sept. to 11th Oct. two exhibitions on the theme  “Bookplates and bibliophily” will be presented in the Vienna Künstlerhaus. Opening: Thursday, 17th Sept. 19.00 hrs. In the Ranftl room on the first floor beautiful historic books will be shown; in the Hausgalerie on the ground floor ex-libris will be exhibited. In the Hausgalerie Members of the Künstlerhaus, too, will present exlibris. This exhibitions will be organised from private collections by members of the Austrian Ex-libris Society and the Vienna Society of Bibliophiles and the Künstlerhaus. Address: Künstlerhaus, Vienna 1. district, Karlsplatz 5. ( 5 minutes from the Opera).   Organisation: Peter Rath, Wien 1120, Edelsinnstrasse 66. Tel.: +43 1 676 54 15 056    e-mail: rath.p@aon.at.    Provisional programme (subject to possible changes):   Thursday, 8.10.2009 18.00 hrs.: Opening meeting at the “Weinbau Grausenburger” in Wien-Mauer, Langegasse 101a. “The Grausi” is a typical Viennese wine producer with a buffet. Take U4 (Subway Nr. 4) to Hietzing, then the tram Nr. 60 to Mauer-Langegasse. Then ca. 400-500 meter up the Maurer-Langegeasse. (From Karlsplatz (U4) about 40-45 minutes)        Friday, 9.10.2009: 10.00-12.00 hrs.: Friday, 9 Oct., 2009: "The Ex-libris Collection of the Austrian National Library". Mag. Marianne Jobst-Rieder, Director of the Leaflet, Poster and Bookplate Collections will present the special collection of the ÖNB, then Dr. Claudia Karolyi will show some representative samples to introduce into the history and scope of the Ex-libris collection. Place: Vienna, 12. district, Austrian National Library, Oratorium, admission via Josefsplatz 1   14.30 hrs.: Mag. Pokormy-Nagel will introduce the bookplate collection of the Jewish publisher and patron Artur Wolf in the  Museum für Angewandte Kunst. Vienna, 1. district, Stubenring 5   19.00 hrs.: Social evening in the Esterhazykeller; Norbert Fluch will briefly talk about the history of the vaults and Moni Müksch will sing Viennese songs. Vienna, 1. district, Haarhof 1, (near Naglergass and Graben)   Saturday 10.10.2009:  9.30 hrs.: Künstlerhaus, Guided tour through the exhibition  Bibliophily and Ex-libris 10.00 – 11.15 hrs.: General meeting of the “Österreichische Exlibris-Gesellschaft.“ Then bookpresentation by Dr. Peter Labuhn: „Dr. Ottmar Premstaller”.     11.15 – 18.00 hrs.: Exchanging in the Künstlerhaus   The flea market (Naschmarkt) is open from 6.30 – 16.00,   18.00 hrs.: Social evening at “Bierreither”, Vienna 1. district, Schwarzenbergplatz 3. (3-4 minutes from Künstlerhaus.)   Sunday 11.10.2009: 10.00 - 14.00 hrs.: Exchanging in the Künstlerhaus     Participants are asked to register as soon as posibilie. For organisational purposes it is vital to book rooms for the evening meetings for a realist number of persons. Moreover, the Museum for Applied Art has only limited facilities for a large number of people. The Exlibris Collection of the National Library comprises about 9.000 plates from1500 -1850. The basis of the collection is formed by bookplates from the books of the Hofbibliothek (royal library) and the Collection Rudolf Benkard with more than 6.000 items from the 16th to 18th centuries, acquired in 1930. New acquisitions and donations in the nineteenseventies changed the focus to the first half of the 20th century. Since 1996 the collection – meanwhile augmented to about 50.000 small graphics –  has been documenting the contemporary ex-libris oeuvre, too. Artur Wolf and his Ex-libris Collection in the library and graphic collection of the Museum for Applied Art. In 1933 the ex-libris collection of the publisher Artur Wolf (29 cassettes, a file and a catalogue) was given to the MAK. Today it is a collection of worldwide importance, containing plates by Franz von Bayros, Peter Behrens, C.O. Czeschka, Josef von Diveky, Hans Frank, Josef Hoffmann, Gustav Klimt, Alfred Kubin, Julius Klinger, Berthold Löffler, Max Liebenwein, Kolo Moser, Emil Orlik, Franz von Stuck, Richard Teschner and many others. Artur Wolf, born 12th April, 1987 in Mährisch-Weißkirchen, Czech Republic, after his apprenticeship as bookseller in 1911 founded the Artur Wolf publishing house, Seilerstätte 1, Vienna. There he mainly sold graphic prints, etchings and reproductions from his own publishing company, and till the shutdown in 1937 published above all books along the motto “the beautiful book” as announced in the almanach The beautiful book, published by the firm in 1924. On 16th Oct., 1932 he suddenly died in Vienna; according to a letter of Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlandos he fell off a horse. 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