Edmund de Waal meets Albrecht Dürer [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION TO THE EXHIBITION This exhibition has been curated by the English artist and writer Edmund de Waal. At the invitation of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, de Waal made repeated visíts to Vienna over a period of three years to spend time with its collections and curators, and to make a per-sonal selection of objects from among the many thousands assembled over centuries by the museum's Habsburg founders. He has borrowed from seven different collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum: the Picture Gallery, Greek and Román Antiqui-ties, the Kunstkammer, the Imperial Treasury, Historical Musical Instruments, the Library, and the collection of Ambras Castle, the for-mer residence of Archduke Ferdinánd II in Innsbruck, Tyrol. Four additional objects, at least one of which was formerly in the Ambras collection, have been generously lent by the Natural History Museum, our twin building across the Maria-Theresien-Platz. The exhibition is completed by a major new work created by de Waal himself, as a response to his selection. De Waal instinctively understood the oppor-tunities that the invitation afforded while rec-ognizing the trapdoors that came with it. His role was not to be that of the museum curator,