Swiss Ex Libris Club

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Swiss Ex Libris Club
(SELC)
purpose Researching and maintaining the bookplate as a cultural, artistic and collective item
Chair: Jochen Hesse (since 2019)
Establishment date: 1968
Seat : Zurich
Website: exlibris-selc.ch

The Swiss Ex Libris Club (SELC) is a Swiss Association for preserving, studying and disseminating bookplate , serving, so the small graphics for the identification of ownership of books. It includes both private and institutional members from Germany and abroad.

Thomas Wüthrich, Ex Libris Anna Stiefel for the 50th anniversary of the Swiss Ex Libris Club, 2018, etching

history

The Swiss Ex Libris Club (SELC) was founded in 1968 by the Ticino collector Carlo Chiesa as an association. In the same year, the SELC was accepted into the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Amateurs d'Ex-Libris (FISAE) at the annual meeting in Como . From the 1970s the club organized exhibitions in Zurich, Aarau, St. Gallen, Chur and Basel. Lists of works on Swiss artists and congress gifts were drawn up. Since 1990, the club has been publishing annual publications parallel to the association's magazine SELC-Express. The anniversary meeting for the 25th anniversary of the SELC took place in Winterthur in 1993. A large exhibition was shown in the local trade museum . At the same time, the publication “25 Years of the Swiss Ex-Libris Club. Jubilee publication 1968–1993 ». The Winterthur libraries , which have a large collection of ex-libris, also look after the association's depot. Bookplate collections are also owned by the institutional members of the Basel University Library and the Zurich Central Library.

Purpose of the association

The purpose of the association is the research, maintenance and dissemination of the bookplate, the promotion of the production of the artistic bookplate, the support of the collecting activities of its members and the official representation of Switzerland at international bookplate congresses. True to this self-image, the SELC deals in its annual editions with the work of ex-libris artists and thematic aspects of the book owner's mark. In the association magazine SELC-Express, the members are informed about current issues in the field of bookplate art.

Publications

The SELC-Express informs club members three times a year about bookplate artists, collectors, literature, annual conferences and exchange meetings at home and abroad. The annual gift presents Swiss bookplate artists, including a.

Also:

  • 25 years of the Swiss Ex Libris Club: anniversary publication 1968–1993 . 1993, DNB  940749688 .
  • Marianne Kalt: Swiss bookplate artist 1900–1992: Directory of 900 bookplate artists and other bookplate makers since 1900 . 1993.
  • Benoît Junod: Swiss bookplates of the twentieth century . 1999, DNB  959831886 .

literature

  • 25 years of the Swiss Ex-Libris Club. Jubilee publication 1968–1993. Ed .: Swiss Ex-Libris Club, Giswil 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website Thomas Wüthrich. Retrieved August 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Swiss Ex Libris Club (Ed.): 25 years of the Swiss Ex Libris Club. Jubilee publication 1968–1993 . 1993, p. 95 f .
  3. ↑ website of FISAE. Retrieved August 24, 2020 .
  4. ^ The ex-libris collection of the Winterthur libraries on stadt.winterthur.ch
  5. ^ Ex-libris on the website of the University Library of Basel. Retrieved August 24, 2020 .
  6. ^ Website of the graphic collection of the Zurich Central Library. Retrieved August 24, 2020 .