The Rubenshuis announced that it received the archive of Rubens scholar Anne-Marie Logan. The world-renowned art historian spent 55 years of her life building a prestigious archive of reference works and documentation on Rubens’s drawings. The archive formed the basis for her numerous publications on the artist and the Rubens exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2005. The Swiss art historian organized her impressive archive based on the locations of the drawings she studied. This clear structure enables future researchers to delve deeper into Logan’s findings, methods, and experiences from the 1960s to the present day in a very focused way.
Archive of Anne-Marie Logan
Photo: Ans Brys
The 110 boxes containing 2,770 kilograms of archival material and books of the now 88-year-old specialist in Rubens’s drawn oeuvre arrived in Antwerp recently. The material will be meticulously catalogued and made accessible to both researchers and the general public in the coming years.
Growing Library
With the donation of Rubens expert Ludwig Burchard in 1960, the Rubenianum cemented its position as a specialized library and research center for sixteenth-century Flemish art. Even after the merger with the Rubenshuis and the move to Hopland, the Burchard collection continues to form the library’s backbone. Inspired by Burchard, many researchers and enthusiasts followed over the years. The library has been significantly expanded, acquiring Anne-Marie Logan’s archive, the archive of Rubens expert Arnout Balis, and Rubens’s own illustrated library in recent years. Moreover, the Flemish Government has placed the archive of Rubens’s country house, Het Steen, on permanent loan to the institution.