Vortrag: “Any work showing originality will be welcome.”

Dr. Anna Lehninger (Universität Zürich) & Prof. Hans B. Thomsen (Universität Zürich)

The Archive of Children’s Drawings is part of the collection of the Stiftung Pestalozzianum and contains about 50 000 drawings of children and youth from the 18th to the 21st century. The talk gives an insight into the Swiss and international collection, which were brought to Zurich from 1932 onwards, originating from international drawing competitions and school exhibitions.

Dr. Anna Lehninger studied History of Art at the University of Vienna and received her PhD from the University of Bern in 2009 for a dissertation on Embroidered Autobiographies of Women in Psychiatric Asylums in the 19th and 20th Century. She has curated exhibitions on Ida Maly in Graz, Hartheim, and Washington D.C. and was editorial assistant for the Swiss publication Album for the Biennale in Venice in 2007. Since 2012 she has been a post-graduate fellow at the Institute for Popular Culture at the University of Zurich working on the project Commercial Drawing Competitions for Children in Switzerland between 1935 and 1985.