General artist lexicon

This article covers the lexicon that started in the 1980s. For the encyclopedias of the same name that appeared in Zurich in the 18th century, see Johann Rudolf Füssli .

A small part of the general dictionary of artists

Title page Volume 1 (1992)

The general artist lexicon (abbreviation AKL ; full title general artist lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples ) is a multi-volume artist lexicon . The project started in 1967, the first volume was published in 1983 and since then more than 100 volumes have appeared. The project is still ongoing.

The AKL was planned as the successor to the so-called Thieme-Becker-Vollmer , an artist lexicon that includes 37 volumes that were published between 1907 and 1950. The Thieme-Becker was to be comprehensively expanded and supplemented by the AKL.

In the opinion of Lutz Heusinger, the AKL project is the “largest and most important joint project in international art history”. The publication project has been under the patronage of the Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art since 1987 .

The lexicon contains entries on visual artists from all over the world from antiquity to the present. It includes painters, sculptors, graphic artists, architects, designers, photographers, type artists and artisans. The detailed artist biographies contain information on the training of each artist, their professional career and their works, whereby the main works are extensively recognized and information on exhibitions and extensive bibliographies are offered.

history

The project of the General Artist Lexicon as a revision of Thieme-Becker was initiated in 1967 by EA Seemann publishing house in Leipzig and funded by the government of the GDR. On January 1, 1969, an editorial team with initially 12 employees was founded under the leadership of Günter Meißner as editor-in-chief, including Siegfried Mahn, Renate Böning, Hans Haufe, Eberhard Kasten, Rose Lehmann, the freelance editors Sigrid Trauzeddel and Roswitha Herrmann and the librarian Barbara Stein ; In 1976 the editorial staff was increased to 25 employees. The lexicon was financially supported by the GDR as a prestige project and initially consisted of 30 volumes. Due to the inadequate technical equipment and the limited use of libraries outside the GDR, the first volume was not published until 1983, and two more volumes followed until reunification .

After the Federal Ministry of the Interior had paid a grant of 2,600,000 DM from the Kulturfonds Deutsche Einheit , KG Saur Verlag took over the General Artists Dictionary on April 1, 1991 . The number of editorial staff was reduced from 40 to 12, later increased to 14. KG Saur Verlag reprinted the first three volumes in four volumes in 1992 and continued the company.

KG Saur Verlag has been part of Walter de Gruyter Verlag since 2006 , which continues the lexicon. The De Gruyter publishing house gave up its Leipzig location in 2012 and thus ended the activities of the editorial staff of the General Artists' Lexicon , which consisted of twelve permanent employees. At the beginning of 2011 it became known that an edition plan had been drawn up in cooperation with the Central Institute for Art History in Munich, which restructured the publication of the work.

Andreas Beyer , Bénédicte Savoy and Wolf Tegethoff have been editors of the lexicon since volume 74 (2012) . The editorial team has been headed by Katja Richter since 2012.

The printed version of the work is expected to be completed in 2022.

construction

The general artist lexicon consists of alphabetically arranged volumes from A to Z, plus supplementary volumes, registers by country and artistic professions each for 10 volumes and a manual in five languages.

Sample page of the bio-bibliographical index A – Z , Volume 5, p. 693

The bio-bibliographical index A – Z is also part of the general artist lexicon , which was published in a second expanded and updated edition in 12 volumes from 2007 to 2009. This is not an artist lexicon in the strict sense, but an index to around 320 bibliographical reference works on artists from all over the world. The bio-bibliographic index contains information on approx. 730,000 artists. Only surname, first name, identification of the artistic activity and the dates of life are given for them. Reference to bibliographic sources follows. The index as such should therefore not be cited, but the sources given there. Furthermore, from 2002 to 2003 a bio-bibliographical index according to occupations was published in 13 volumes.

Initially there was also a CD-ROM edition with identical content, but this was discontinued with the 31st edition in December 2009. Today there is a paid online edition of the General Artist Lexicon. International artist database - AKL-IKD , which makes both the entire text of the general artist lexicon and the Thieme-Becker-Vollmer as well as other information only contained in the database accessible.

As part of the project, the following special dictionaries were also created:

• Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Artists lexicon of antiquity . 2 volumes, KG Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2001-2004, ISBN 3-598-11412-5 .
• Jochen Schmidt-Liebich: Lexicon of women artists 1700–1900. Germany, Austria, Switzerland . KG Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11694-2 .
• Manfred H. Grieb (Hrsg.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon . Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century. 4 volumes, KG Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11763-3 .

Bibliographical information

• General artist lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples . Developed, edited and edited by Günter Meissner and an editorial collective with international participation. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1983–1990, ISBN 3-363-00113-4 DNB 550909443
  • Volume 1: Aa – Alexander (1983)
  • Volume 2: Alexander – Andrea (1986)
  • Volume 3: Andreace – Ardon (1990)

• Volumes 1–65: Saur General Artists Dictionary . The visual artists of all times and peoples . Co-edited and founded by Günter Meißner. KG Saur, Munich / Leipzig 1992–2010, ISBN 3-598-22740-X ; ISBN 978-3-598-22740-0 DNB 551852658
• from Volume 66: De Gruyter General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2010ff., ISBN 978-3-598-23033-2 DNB 1005588279

• Volume 1 A - Alanson (1992)
• Volume 2 Alanson - Alvarez (1992)
• Volume 3 Alvarez - Angelin (1992)
• Volume 4 Angelin - Ardon (1992)
• Volume 5 Ardos - Avogaro (1992)
• Volume 6 Avogaro - Barbieri (1992)
• Volume 7 Barbieri - Bayona (1993)
• Volume 8 Bayonne - Benech (1994)
• Volume 9 Benecke - Berrettini (1994)
• Volume 10 Berrettini - Bikkers (1995)
• Register for volumes 1–10 (1995)
  • Part 1 countries
  • Part 2 Artistic Professions
• Volume 11 Biklar - Bobrov (1995)
• Volume 12 Bobrov - Bordacev (1996)
• Volume 13 Bordalejo - Brown (1996)
• Volume 14 Braun - Buckett (1996)
• Volume 15 Bucki - Campagnari (1997)
• Volume 16 Campagne - Cartellier (1997)
• Volume 17 Carter - Cesaretti (1997)
• Volume 18 Cesari - Choupay (1997)
• Volume 19 Chouppe - Clovio (1998)
• Volume 20 Clow - Contel (1998)
• Register for volumes 11-20 (1998)
  • Part 1 countries
  • Part 2 Artistic Professions
• Volume 21 Contell - Courtry (1999)
• Volume 22 Courts - Cuccini (1999)
• Volume 23 Cuccioni - Dambsman (1999)
• Volume 24 Damdama - Dayal (2000)
• Volume 25 Dayan - Delvoye (2000)
• Volume 26 Delwaide - Dewagut (2000)
• Volume 27 Dewailly - Dismorr (2000)
• Volume 28 Disney - Donnus (2001)
• Volume 29 Donny - You (2001)
• Volume 30 Dua - Dunlap (2001)
• Register for volumes 21–30 (2001)
  • Part 1 countries
  • Part 2 Artistic Professions
• Volume 31 Dunlop - Ebers (2002)
• Volume 32 Ebersbach - Eimbke (2002)
• Volume 33 Bucket - Engehser (2002)
• Volume 34 Angel - Eschini (2002)
• Volume 35 Eschka - Ezenwa (2002)
• Volume 36 Ezeoke - Faradje (2003)
• Volume 37 Farafonava - Fejérváry (2003)
• Volume 38 Fejes - Ferrari by Kellerhof (2003)
• Volume 39 Ferrari D'Orsara - Filippi (2003)
• Volume 40 Filippi - Fitzner (2004)
• Register for volumes 31–40 (2004)
  • Part 1 countries
  • Part 2 Artistic Professions
• Volume 41 Fitzpatrick - Folger (2004)
• Volume 42 Folgering - Fosman (2004)
• Volume 43 Fosnes - Francone (2004)
• Volume 44 Franconi - Freyenmuth (2005)
• Volume 45 Freyer - Fryderyk (2005)
• Volume 46 Frydl - Gabo (2005)
• Volume 47 Gabor - Gallardus (2005)
• Volume 48 Gallarini - Garcha (2006)
• Volume 49 Garchik - Gáspárdy (2006)
• Volume 50 Gaspare - Geesink (2006)
• Register for volumes 41–50 (2006)
  • Part 1 countries
  • Part 2 Artistic Professions
• Volume 51 Geeslin - Geranzani (2006)
• Volume 52 Gerard - Gheuse (2006)
• Volume 53 Ghevers - Gil Torres (2007)
• Volume 54 Gil Valdez - Giovanni di Cione (2007)
• Volume 55 Giovanni da Civitella - Glandon (2007)
• Volume 56 Glandorf - Goepfart (2007)
• Volume 57 Goepfert - Gomez Feu (2008)
• Volume 58 Gomez de Fonseca - Gordon (2008)
• Volume 59 Gordon - Gracian (2008)
• Volume 60 Graciano - Grau – Sala (2008)
• Register for volumes 51–60 (2009)
  • Part 1 countries
  • Part 2 Artistic Professions
• Volume 61 Grau Santos - Greyer (2009)
• Volume 62 Gruyères - Grondoli (2009)
• Volume 63 Grondona - Grysuk (2009)
• Volume 64 Gryt - Guerrin (2009)
• Volume 65 Guerring - Guntbaldus (2009)
• Volume 66 Gunten - Haaren (2010)
• Volume 67 Haarer - Hahs (2010)
• Volume 68 Hai - Hammock (2011)
• Volume 69 Hammon - Hartung (2011)
• Volume 70 Hartwagner - Hédouin (2011)
• Register for volumes 61–70 (2012)
  • Part 1 countries
  • Part 2 Artistic Professions
• Volume 71 Hedquist - Hennicke (2011)
• Volume 72 Hennig - Heuler (2012)
• Volume 73 Heunert - Höllwarth (2012)
• Volume 74 Hoelscher - Hornstein (2012)
• Volume 75 Hornung - Hunziker (2012)
• Volume 76 Hunzinger - Iza (2013)
• Volume 77 Izaguirre - Jerace (2013)
• Volume 78 Jeraj - Jur'ev (2013)
• Volume 79 Jurgens - Kelder (2013)
• Volume 80 Keldermans - Knebel (2014)
• Register for volumes 71–80 (2014)
  • Part 1 countries
  • Part 2 Artistic Professions
• Volume 81 Knecht - Kretzner (2014)
• Volume 82 Kretzschmar - Lalique (2014)
• Volume 83 Lalix - Leibowitz (2014)
• Volume 84 Leibundgut - Linssen (2015)
• Volume 85 Linstow - Luns (2015)
• Volume 86 Lunt - Mandelsloh (2015)
• Volume 87 Almond Stem - Matielli (2015)
• Volume 88 Matijin - Meixner (2016)
• Volume 89 Mejchar - Minguzzi (2016)
• Volume 90 Minh Cao - Morrillo (2016)
• Register for volumes 81–90 (2016)
  • Part 1 countries
  • Part 2 Artistic Professions
• Volume 91 Morris - Nasedkin (2016)
• Volume 92 Naselli - Nordgren (2017)
• Volume 93 Nordhagen - Ostrog (2017)
• Volume 94 Ostrogovic - Pellegrina (2017)
• Volume 95 Pellegrini - Pinstok (2017)
• Volume 96 Pintaldi - Pretro (2017)
• Volume 97 Pretsch - Rauh (2018)
• Volume 98 Room - Rimpatta (2018)
• Volume 99 Rimpl - Rover (2018)
• Volume 100 Rovere - Samonà (2018)
• Register for volumes 91–100 (2018)
  • Part 1 countries
  • Part 2 Artistic Professions
• Volume 101 Samore - Schleiffert (2018)
• Volume 102 Schleime - Seitter (2019)
• Volume 103 Seitz - Silvestre (2019)
• Volume 104 Silvestrin - Somani (2019)
• Volume 105 Somaré - Steenkamp (2019)
• Volume 106 Steenroet - Stundl (2020)
• Volume 107 Stuntz - Tandy (2020)
• Volume 108 Tanev - Thoman (2020)
• Volume 109 Thomann - Toron (2020)
• Supplement 1 A - Azzopardi (2005)
• Supplementary Volume 2 B - Beran (2007)
• Supplement 3 Beranek - Briggs (2008)
• Supplementary Volume 4 Bright - Casset (2011)
• Supplementary Volume 5 Cassini - Czwartos (2013)

• Saur General Artist Lexicon. Manual . KG Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-22818-X ; ISBN 978-3-598-22818-6 .

• Saur General Artist Lexicon. Bio-bibliographical Index A - Z . 10 volumes. KG Saur, Munich / Leipzig 1999-2000, ISBN 3-598-23910-6 ; ISBN 978-3-598-23910-6

Volume 1 A - Bielitz (1999) Volume 2 Bielke - Danvin (1999) Volume 3 Dany - Gachot (1999) Volume 4 Gaci - Hodson (2000) Volume 5 Hodunov - Laborier (2000)

Volume 6 Laborim - Michallet (2000) Volume 7 Michallon - Pikaar (2000) Volume 8 Pikalov - Schintzel (2000) Volume 9 Schinz - Torricelli (2000) Volume 10 Torrico - Z (2000)

• Saur General Artist Lexicon. Bio-bibliographical Index A - Z . 2nd expanded and updated edition. 12 volumes. KG Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2007–2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24555-8

Volume 1 A - Bartolena (2007) Volume 2 Bartoletti - Brunach (2007) Volume 3 Brunais - Crowdey (2007) Volume 4 Crowdy - Fajana (2007) Volume 5 Fajans - Goeßler (2007) Volume 6 Gößwein - Izzolo (2008)

Volume 7 J - Lemmerz (2008) Volume 8 Lemmi - Morelon (2008) Volume 9 Morels - Popov (2008) Volume 10 Popova - Schrack (2008) Volume 11 Schrade - Tribull (2009) Volume 12 Tribus - Zzürcher (2009)

• General artist lexicon, bio-bibliographical index by profession = The artists of the world bio-bibliographical index by profession . KG Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2002–2003, ISBN 3-598-24690-0

Volume 1 Architect - Building craftsman (2002) Volume 2 Cabinetmaker - Goldsmith (2002) Volume 3 Goldsmith (Croatia) - Graphic artist (Great Britain) (2002) Volume 4 Graphic artist (Greece) - Illustrator (Ukraine) (2002) Volume 5 Illustrator (United States of America) - Master draftsman (Surinam) (2002) Volume 6 Master draftsman (Sweden) - Painter (Barbados) (2003) Volume 7 Painter (Belgium - Georgia) (2003)

Volume 8 Painter (Germany - Great Britain) (2003) Volume 9 Painter (Greece - Netherlands) (2003) Volume 10 Painter (New Zealand - Sweden) (2003) Volume 11 Painter (Switzerland ff.) - Printmaker (Ireland) (2003) Volume 12 Printmaker (Italy ff.) - sculptor (Poland) (2003) Volume 13 Sculptor (Portugal ff.) - no specific profession (2003)

literature

• Alfred Langer: Art Literature and Reproduction. 125 years of Seemann-Verlag in the service of research and dissemination of art . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1983, pp. 154-155.
• Gerhard Keil, Günter Meißner: A - like recognition. The general dictionary of artists in an international professional judgment . In: Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel (Leipzig) 153, No. 37, 1986, pp. 659-660.
• Sebastian Preuß: From the bag archive to the database. Past and future of the Thieme-Becker artist lexicon . In: FAZ May 29, 1991.
• Dieter Tausch: Seaman or Saur . In: From the Antiquariat 1992, 6, p. A 264.
• Eberhard Kasten: The general artist lexicon (AKL). A practical report . In: Klaus Barckow, Walter Delabar (Ed.): New information and storage media in German studies. On the prospects of EDP as an information carrier for literary research . P. Lang, Bern a. a. 1994, pp. 97-112.
• Gert Gröning, Uwe Schneider: Are the Germans better gardeners? Notes on garden history and open space planning in the General Lexicon of Fine Artists (AKL) Vol. 1–15 . In: Kunstchronik 50, 1997, pp. 691–700.
• Dieter Tausch: Don't be afraid of books! On the occasion of the publication of the Allgemeine Künstlerlexikons (AKL), Volume No. 50: ›Gaspare bis Geesink‹ . In: From the Antiquariat 2006, pp. 384–385.
• Klaus G. Saur : Dream job as a publisher . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-50165-0 , pp. 198-202.
• Birgit Thiemann: El arte latinoamericano en el "General Artist Lexicon". In: Patricia Díaz Cayeros, Montserrat Galí Boadella, Peter Krieger: Nombrar y explicar. Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Mexico 2012, ISBN 978-6-07-02-3236-7 , pp. 159-175.
• Dieter Tausch: The AKL and the daisy oracle. In: From the Antiquariat NF 16, 2018, No. 3, pp. 152–153.

Web links

• Page of the general artist lexicon at Verlag Walter de Gruyter
• General artist lexicon - The project: From Thieme-Becker to the artist database ( Memento from October 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). In: degruyter.de

Remarks

1. ^ Lutz Heusinger : Foreword . In: General Artist Lexicon Volume 1, 1992, SV
2. ↑ Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel 158, 1991, No. 31, p. 1274; No. 35, p. 1630; Christoph Links: The fate of the GDR publishers. Privatization and its consequences . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86153-523-2 , p. 161; Klaus G. Saur: Dream job as a publisher . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-455-50165-0 , pp. 198-202.
3. ↑ De Gruyter withdraws from Leipzig. Dismantling on the Pleiße. buchreport.de, January 27, 2011.
4. ^ Editorial realignment of the General Artists' Lexicon. De Gruyter cooperates with the Central Institute for Art History. ( Memento from September 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) degruyter.de, January 19, 2011; Memorandum of the Verband Deutscher Kunsthistoriker eV (Association of German Art Historians) on the conversion or discontinuation of the “General Artist Lexicon” by Verlag de Gruyter , March 25, 2011.
5. ↑ publisher's website .
6. ↑ Access .
7. ^ Reprint in a volume with a different number of pages: Künstlerlexikon der Antike. Over 3800 artists from three millennia . Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 .
8. ↑ Review: Klaus Schreiber, Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 31, 1984, pp. 174–176.
9. ↑ Review: Klaus Schreiber, Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 38, 1991, pp. 178–179.
10. ↑ Review Vol. 1–5: Klaus Schreiber, Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 39, 1992, pp. 337–340.
11. ↑ Review Volume 8–20: Klaus Schreiber, Informationsmittel für Libraries 99-B09-096 .
12. ^ Review of registers volumes 1–20: Klaus Schreiber, Informationsmittel für Libraries 99-B09-098 .
13. ↑ Review: Peter H. Feist, Journal für Kunstgeschichte 10, 2006, pp. 195–198.
14. ↑ The publication of supplementary volumes has been discontinued, artists and supplements not included in the printed work can only be found in the electronic edition.