Katrin Bellinger began collecting in 1985 in parallel to her career as a dealer in Old Master drawings. Fascinated with the artistic process and the mystique surrounding it, she chose to focus on one theme: the artist at work. Since then the collection has expanded considerably and now includes over 1800 examples in a range of media – drawings, paintings, prints, photographs and sculpture – from the Renaissance to the present day. Among the artists represented are Marie-Gabrielle Capet, Honoré Daumier, James Ensor, Lucian Freud, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Angelica Kauffman, Käthe Kollwitz, Parmigianino, Rembrandt, Philipp Otto Runge, Georges Seurat, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Antoine Watteau. The collection is administered by the Tavolozza Foundation. To see more works on the theme of the artist at work, follow @the.artists.at.work on Instagram.
For information on specific works in the Katrin Bellinger collection, please e-mail [email protected]
The Katrin Bellinger Collection lends works regularly to exhibitions held at museums and galleries world-wide.
The Gorgeous Nothings: Flowers at Chatsworth
Chatsworth 15 March — 5 October 2025
Barbara Walker: Being Here
Arnolfini, Bristol 8 March — 25 May 2025
Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester 17 May — 2 November 2025
Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520–1920
Tate Britain, London 16 May — 13 October 2024
Charmaine Watkiss, Legacy
Lakeland Arts, Abbot Hall, Kirkland, Kendal 4 July 2024 — 31 January 2025
Learn more: lakelandarts.org.uk/
Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800
Baltimore Museum of Art
1 October 2023 — 7 January 2024
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
30 March — 1 July 2024
Connecting Worlds: Artists & Travel
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett 8 July — 8 October 2023
Artists and travel have for centuries been intertwined where the desire to explore beyond the confines of one’s home has provoked a truly astonishing outpouring of creativity, much of which was captured through drawings and prints. Comprising over 120 such works, Connecting Worlds. Artists & Travel will be the first exhibition to approach the subject through the lens of artists’ experiences of travel from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Read more: https://kupferstich-kabinett.skd.museum/en/exhibitions/connecting-worlds-artists-travel/
»PARIS IS MY LIBRARY« Drawings and Prints by Félicien Rops
Hamburger Kunsthalle 10 February — 7 May 2023
Held in the Harzen-Kabinett of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the exhibition will for the first time present up to one hundred sheets from the extensive collection of prints and drawings by the artist. Read more: www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/en/exhibitions/paris-my-library
Reframed: The Woman in the Window
Dulwich Picture Gallery 4 May — 4 September 2022
Absent Artists
Charleston, East Sussex 2 April — 29 August 2022
Curated by Langlands & Bell.
Read more: https://www.charleston.org.uk/exhibition/absent-artists/
A Century of the Artist’s Studio 1920 – 2020
Whitechapel Gallery, London 24 February — 5 June 2022
The Human Touch: Making Art, Leaving Traces
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 18 May — 1 August 2021
Lisa Brice
GEM Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hague 21 November 2020 — 5 April 2021
Close: Drawn Portraits
Drawing Room, London 22 November 2018 — 3 February 2019
Canaletto e Venezia
Palazzo Ducale, Venice 23 February — 9 June 2019
Artists at Work
The Courtauld Gallery, London 3 May — 15 July 2018
Eblouissante Venise! Venise, les arts et l’Europe au XVIIIe siècle
Grand Palais, Paris
26 September 2018 — 21 January 2019
Jean-Jacques Karpff – “Visez au Sublime”
Musée Unter Linden, Colmar 3 March — 3 July 2017
Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant – Drawings from New York Collections
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
6 October 2016 — 8 January 2017
See: MET/Fragonard
Émile Friant, le dernier naturaliste?
Musée des beaux-arts de Nancy 4 November 2016 — 27 February 2017
Drawings by Antoine Watteau
The Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
19 October 2016 — 15 January 2017
The Teylers Museum, Haarlem
1 February 2017 — 14 May 2016
Hubert Robert 1733-1808
Musée du Louvre
7 March — 30 May 2016
National Gallery of Washington
26 June — 2 October 2016
The Painting Room: Artists at work in the eighteenth century
Gainsborough's House, Suffolk 24 October 2015 — 21 February 2016
Drawn from the Antique: Artists & the Classical Ideal
Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
25 June — 26 September 2015
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
11 March — 31 May 2015
Further information www.soane.org
Silent Partners: Artist and Mannequin from Function to Fetish
Musée Bourdelle, Paris
31 March — 12 July 2015
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
4 October 2014 — 25 January 2015
In the Studio
The Gagosian Gallery, New York 5 February — 18 April 2015
Futher information www.gagosian.com/
The Invention of the Past: Tales of Heart and Sword in Europe 1802-1850
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon 19 April — 21 July 2014
Caspar Berger Singer Prijs 2013
Stichting Singer Memorial Foundation, Laren 2 June — 7 July 2013
Impressions of Interiors: Gilded Age Paintings by Walter Gay
Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh
6 October 2012 — 6 January 2013
Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
29 January — 23 April 2013
Petrus van Schendel (1806-1870): een leven tussen licht en donker
Breda Museum, The Netherlands
10 November 2012 — 17 February 2013
Museum Villa Vauban, Luxemburg
9 March — 16 June 2013
Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) La Leçon de musique
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels 7 February — 26 May 2013
Cornelis Bega: Eleganz und raue Sitten
Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen
15 March — 10 June 2012
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
29 June — 30 September 2012
Jean de Jullienne: Collector & Connoisseur
The Wallace Collection, London 12 March — 1 June 2011
The Artist’s Studio
Compton Verney
26 September — 13 December 2009
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
9 February — 16 May 2010
Mythen van het atelier [Studio Myths]
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
18 September 2010 — 9 January 2009
Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen
4 February — 8 May 2011
Artists and travel have for centuries been intertwined where the desire to explore beyond the confines of one’s home has provoked a truly astonishing outpouring of creativity, much of which was captured through drawings and prints.
Comprising over 120 such works, Connecting Worlds. Artists & Travel (Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 8 July – 8 October 2023) was the first exhibition to approach the subject through the lens of artists’ experiences of travel from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Select works by contemporary artists, including a piece by Langlands & Bell, offered further inspiring perspectives on the topic of travel and connectivity. The exhibition comprised of three sections “On the road”, “Destination Rome”, and “Dresden”.
This international exhibition project was a collaboration between the Kupferstich-Kabinett and the Katrin Bellinger Collection, London, and was made possible by the complementary strengths of the two collections: the Kupferstich-Kabinett, with its extensive holdings on the themes of travel and science in the early modern period, and the Katrin Bellinger Collection, with its focus on representations of artists engaged in the creative process. The project was supplemented by prominent loans from national and international collections.
Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue in English published by Paul Holberton, London.
The exhibition and catalogue were co-curated and edited by Stephanie Buck, Director Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and Anita V. Sganzerla.
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