Conference | Collectors, Agents, Art Dealers: Vienna’s Art Market
From ArtHist.net:
Collectors, Agents, Art Dealers:
The Rise and Expansion of Vienna’s Art Market, 17th–18th Century
Department of Art History, University of Vienna, 13–14 November 2025
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9:30 Welcome
• Thomas Wallnig, Vice Dean, Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies
• Silvia Tammaro for the Vienna Center for the History of Collecting
10.00 Session 1 | Agents, Collectors, and Collections
Chair: Roswitha Juffinger
• Tina Košak (Maribor University) — Circulation of Artworks in the Late 17th and Early 18th Century Aristocratic Collections: Some Styrian and Carniolan Cases
• Katharina Leithner (Liechtenstein, The Princely Collections) — Viele Wege führen nach Wien. Transport, Transaktionen und Logistik am Beispiel der Fürstlichen Sammlungen Liechtenstein
• Cecilia Mazzetti di Pietralata (Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale) — A Banker for Maratta: Financial and Logistical Networks between Italy and Vienna, 17th–18th Centuries
• Chiara Petrolini (Università di Bologna) — Manuscript Markets: Sebastian Tengnagel and the Trade in ‘Oriental’ Books
14.00 Session 2 | The Emergence of the Art Market
Chair: Cecilia Mazzetti di Pietralata
• Christof Jeggle (Universität Wien) — The Constitution of Art Markets: Shipping Art on the Danube to Vienna
• Anja Grebe (Universität für Weiterbildung Krems) — Art Dealing and Connoisseurship: Dürer Collectors, Dürer Forgeries, and the Viennese Art Market in the Pre-modern Era
• Gernot Mayer (Universität Wien) — Bewerten und Verwerten: Bilderschätzer als Protagonisten des Wiener Kunsthandels
• Paolo Coen (Università di Teramo) — Tra Roma e Vienna: Dinamiche del mercato artistico nel XVIII secolo
• Silvia Tammaro (Universität Wien) — The Art Dealer Artaria: At the Heart of the Network of Collectors and Artists between Italy and Vienna
17.30 Keynote Lecture
• Koenraad Jonckheere (Ghent University) — Late 17th-Century Art Markets: A Review and a Preview
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9.30 Session 3 | International Networks of Exchange and Production
Chair: Silvia Tammaro
• Marco Coppe (Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli) — Networks of Taste: Silverwork and Porcelain between Tuscany and Vienna through Models and Collecting, 17th–18th Centuries
• Claudia Lehner-Jobst (Porzellanmuseum im Augarten Wien) — ‘Wisdom must be the guide to success’: Enlightened Marketing Strategies and Operations at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory in Vienna
• Bernhard Woytek (Universität Wien) — Collecting Ancient Coins in 18th-Century Vienna: A General Framework and Some Case Studies
• Martina Fleischer (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) — …in Rücksicht der ausserordentlichen guten Wahl von schönsten und seltenstenn Gemälden… Die Sammlung Lamberg-Sprinzenstein und ihre Entstehung in Wien um 1800
12.00 Methodological Outlook
• Christian Huemer (Belvedere Research Center Wien) — Perspectives on the Study of Art Markets
12.30 Concluding Discussions



















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