Zauber der Schrift. Sammlung Pedro Corrêa do Lago

Christine Nelson is the Drue Heinz Curator of Literary and Historical Manuscripts at the Morgan Library & Museum. She is the author of The Brontës: A Family Writes and Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors and has curated major exhibitions on the work of Henry David Thoreau, Charlotte Brontë, Robert Burns, Oscar Wilde, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Voltaire.

Julius Wiedemann studied graphic design and marketing and was an art editor for newspapers and design magazines in Tokyo before joining TASCHEN in 2001. His titles include the Illustration Now! and Record Covers series, as well as the infographics collection and books about advertising and visual culture.

Pedro Corrêa do Lago is a Brazilian art historian and curator who has formed one of the world’s largest private collections of autograph letters and documents. He is the author of more than 20 books on manuscripts and Brazilian art and served as president of Brazil’s National Library from 2003 to 2005. Together with his wife Bia, he founded Capivara in 2002, an art publishing house specialized in catalogues raisonnés of artists active in Brazil. Corrêa do Lago has curated several exhibitions and has published an illustrated book on manuscripts, True to the Letter.

Located in the heart of New York City, the Morgan Library & Museum began as the private library of financier John Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), one of the preeminent collectors and cultural benefactors in United States history. Today it is a museum, research library, performance venue, architectural landmark, and historic site housing one of the world’s foremost collections of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, literary and historical manuscripts and letters, music manuscripts, rare printed books and bindings, drawings, and ancient works of art.