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The University Library is a bridge thrown between the Academy and the general public. It is a place of information, work, and communication for researchers, students, teachers, and everybody interested in art and science, covering a range of varied tasks, including, among others: the establishment, operation, and development of analog and digital infrastructures and services for the advancement of education, science, art, and culture in close cooperation with national and international archival, library, information, and museum institutions as well as other interest groups; the support of teaching, research, study, and administration as well as the Academy’s art collections; the collection, storage, indexing, and, wherever possible, barrier-free provision and communication of analog and digital data, information, and cultural heritage; the provision of literature to faculty, staff and students as well as the interested public; the conveyance of information, digital and publishing literacy, as well as the establishment of a platform for the purpose of knowledge transfer and education on art and culture.

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
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Schillerplatz 3, mezzanine 7
1010 Vienna

Reading room and lending:
P +43 (1) 588 16-2302

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Upcoming Events

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    The Historical Library of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

    A guided tour through the historical premises and the collection of antique holdings of the A...cademy Library with Martin Kreuz as part of the WissensWert series.

    Guided tour in German

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    Schillerplatz/ University Library (Reading room, M7)

    University Library

    The color photograph shows what may be a typical desk or work table of a senior official in the library service. A scriptor or an amanuensis (assistant scribe) possibly, since these two people with this job title have to do the work of the classic "librarian" behind the scenes. In addition to the necessary work utensils – such as nib pens, inkwell, blotting cradle, index cards, and various inventory books and lists – the everyday work is completed by many other period-typical accessories, which allows you to put yourself in the necessary work steps and to revel and live a little in the flair of the 19th century.

  • Opening: On Sediments and Occidents

    Opening of an exhibition on colonial continuities and cultural sedimentation processes with Johannes Rips as part of the Academy Library’s event series Wer A… sagt

    Exhibition Opening

    Schillerplatz/ University Library (Reading room, M7)

    University Library

    The black-and-white photograph shows four persons, three read as male and one as female, sitting at a long coarse wooden table eating and drinking wine. It is a scene from the 19th century. In the center of the picture the word ‘On’ can be read.

  • Visit to the Plaster Cast Collection: On Sediments and Occidents

    A visit to the Collection of Plaster Casts and a talk with Andrea Domanig and Johannes Rips in the context of the exhibition On Sediments and Occidents. An event of A...cademy Library and The Collection of Plaster Casts.

    Talk

    Studio Building/ The Collection of Plaster Casts

    University Library

    Three sculptures placed side by side in the white-washed vaulted basement of the Studiobuilding; due to the viewing angle, the leftmost figure, a cast of the ‘Capitoline Venus,’ appears to be the largest. The other two casts represent ‘Eirene carrying the infant Plutos on her arm’ and ‘Ares Borghese.’ All three sculptures are visible from the head to about the knee.

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    On Sediments and Occidents

    An exhibition on colonial continuities and cultural sedimentation processes from the artistic research project of Johannes Rips as part of the Academy Library’s event series Wer A… sagt

    Exhibition

    Schillerplatz/ University Library (Reading room, M7)

    University Library

    The black-and-white photograph shows four persons, three read as male and one as female, sitting at a long coarse wooden table eating and drinking wine. It is a scene from the 19th century. In the center of the picture the word ‘On’ can be read.
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