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The “Société de Martin Schongauer”, originally formed to organise the creation of a print collection, first met on 26 June 1847 under the leadership of Louis Hugot, archivist and librarian for the city of Colmar, this project’s founder. The collection was intended as a means to disseminate models, “to develop public taste and the appreciation of beauty”. The plan to install this collection in the former Unterlinden convent began to take shape in 1848, when the Collège Royal in Colmar, where works of art had been safeguarded from revolutionary forces, was due to be emptied of its holdings. The Société Schongauer requested that the city “convert this monument into a museum for antique sculptures, paintings and prints”. After the installation of the museum in the Unterlinden convent in 1853, Louis Hugot, its first curator, acquired a large number of prints, which were to form the basis of the museum’s pedagogical programme in his conception. // Download:
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