DüRER TO FRIEDRICH - GERMAN DRAWINGS FROM THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM OXFORD


By Neil Cooper

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is currently holding an exhibition of drawings that highlight the Museum’s small but prestigious collection of pieces by German artists from the 16th to 19th centuries.

Durer to Friedrich – German Drawings from the Ashmolean runs until May 20 2007 and consists of the collections of two different antiquarians.

Francis Douce bequeathed the earlier works, containing a number of works by Albrecht Durer, to Oxford University in 1834. The second group, dating from the 19th century, was given to the museum by Dr Grete Ring who came to England from Germany in the 1930s.

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Posted: Thu - April 19, 2007 at 10:59 AM          

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