... on the drawings of Rubens
A world-renowned art historian spent 55 years building a prestigious collection of reference works on Rubens’s drawings. Now she has donated all art historical publications and documents relevant to her five decades of research to the Rubenshuis
Anne-Marie Logan spent 55 years of her life collecting research material on Rubens’s drawings, or 110 boxes of records and books. After her studies in the 1960s, the Swiss art historian went to work for Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, a professor of art history at Yale University who was working on a catalogue of European drawings for an exhibition. Logan continued to immerse herself in the Flemish oeuvre and is still considered the pre-eminent expert on the drawn oeuvre of Peter Paul Rubens.
Logan’s focus on Rubens led to several high-profile publications over the years. In 2005, she co-curated a ground-breaking exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York titled ‘Peter Paul Rubens.
The clearly structured archive gives researchers an insight into the origin, construction, meaning and historical background of Rubens’s drawings, but also paints a precious portrait of a passionate art historian, her research methods, and her experiences in the second half of the 20thand the early 21st century.
