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National Museum Warsaw and Partage Plus project awarded with the Sybilla 2015 prize

The National Museum Warsaw (MNW) received the Polish Sybilla 2015 award in the category "Best Digitisation Project" for the participation in the Partage Plus project. The international project kicked off in March 2012 with the aim of digitizing and 3D scanning more than 79.000 art works from the Art Nouveau period. All items were made available via the Euopeana platform and can be accessed under the following link. The Partage Plus team, composed of 25 partner institutions from all over Europe, feels immensely honoured by this award and thanks the organizers of Sybilla 2015 for this mention.

Publication (UPM): Vojtěch Preissig

We are happy to inform you about a recent publication by the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague (UPM).
The monograph on the Czech artist and designer Vojtěch Preissig, written by Partage Plus project member Lucie Vlčková, presents for the first time the complete facts on Preissig’s rich body of work.

The work of Vojtěch Preissig (1873—1944), one of the most accomplished Czech graphic artists of the first half of the 20th century, encompasses a broad range of fields and types of graphic design and decorative art, beginning with occasional prints (posters, invitation cards, announcements, New Year cards, bookplates), followed by book and magazine illustrations, ornamental designs and patterns (universal vignettes, decorative borders, flyleafs), all the way to typography.

Graphics, prints and illustrations by Preissig from the collection of UPM were digitised for the Partage Plus project and will be available through Europeana soon.

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About:

"Vojtěch Preissig"
concept and text: Lucie Vlčková
Published in 2012 by the publishing house Arbor Vitae in Řevnice and Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague as the first volume of the series Design - profiles - key figures.
Available in Czech and English edition.
ISBN: 978-80-7467-032-9 (English edition)