The Fascination of Paper
New perspectives on the collection
From 12 December 2025
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ALBERTINA MUSEUM, VIENNA
The ALBERTINA is home to one of the world’s largest collections of drawings, prints and artistic works on paper. Drawing on these rich holdings, this extraordinary exhibition indeed devotes itself to the diversity and fascination surrounding paper in all of its many aspects.
Covering multiple eras from the 15th century to the present, the presentation brings together works from the Graphic Art Collection, the Architectural Collection, and the Collection of Contemporary Art. Copperplate engravings for playing cards, multi-part three-dimensional objects of monumental proportions, and rarely shown works reveal the entire range of this one-of-a-kind collection and artistic genre. In the process, surprising juxtapositions vividly illustrate paper’s versatility as a medium.
The exhibition is on view from 12 December 2025 until 8 March 2026.
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Birgit Knoechl: out of control_revisited the autonomy of growth_0IV, 2006-2008/2012
369 x 355 x 458 cm, Installation of paper cut-outs with ink
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – Acquisition from gallery funding of BMUKK 2012 © Birgit Knoechl / Bildrecht, Vienna 2025)
Anonym: Osoblaha (deutsch Hotzenplotz), Town plan from 1728, early 19th century copy
43 × 57 cm, Feder in Schwarz, starkfarbig koloriert
(ALBERTINA, Wien)
© Foto: ALBERTINA, Wien
Albrecht Dürer: The Gate of Honor of Emperor Maximilian I, 1515 (3rd edition Vienna 1559)
340,9 x 292,2 cm, Colored woodcut
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
© Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
Meister der Spielkarten (Master of playing cards): Bird-Two, 1440-1450
10,3 x 6,5 cm, Copperplate engraving
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
© Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn: Self-portrait with eyes wide open, 1630
5,1 × 4,6 cm, Etching and drypoint
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
© Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
369 x 355 x 458 cm, Installation of paper cut-outs with ink (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – Acquisition from gallery funding of BMUKK 2012 © Birgit Knoechl / Bildrecht, Vienna 2025)
43 × 57 cm, Feder in Schwarz, starkfarbig koloriert (ALBERTINA, Wien)
© Foto: ALBERTINA, Wien
340,9 x 292,2 cm, Colored woodcut (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
© Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
10,3 x 6,5 cm, Copperplate engraving (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
© Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
5,1 × 4,6 cm, Etching and drypoint (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
© Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna