Picture handbook of art monuments
The Bild Handbuch der Kunstdenkmäler is a handbook series published by Reinhardt Hootz since 1958 by the Deutsches Kunstverlag and later also by the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft and partly by the Edition Leipzig (under the series designation Kunstdenkmäler in der Socialist Länder ).
History of the series
The series, which with a total of forty-nine volumes is one of the most extensive of its kind, began in 1958 under the series name Deutsche Kunstdenkmäler - a picture handbook . Initially, nine volumes on the Federal Republic of Germany were published - mainly based on the division of the federal states - followed by four volumes on Austria (from 1965), two volumes on Switzerland (from 1969) and one volume on Trentino / South Tyrol (1973). In 1971 a volume about the Netherlands was published. In cooperation with Edition Leipzig, five volumes on the territory of the former GDR were published from 1970, the division of which corresponded to the boundaries of the districts, with several districts being grouped according to the former countries. Beginning with Hungary (1974, the first volume not originally written in German), publications on the former Warsaw Pact states followed in collaboration with Edition Leipzig and local publishers, in addition to Hungary on the former Czechoslovakia (3 volumes), to former Yugoslavia (2 volumes), on Romania, Bulgaria, on the former Soviet Union (volumes Leningrad, Moscow, old Russian cities, Ukraine and Moldova). From the planned three-volume series on Poland, only one volume (Krakow and south-east Poland) was produced. The series on Italy was completed with volumes on Venice (1974), Veneto (1976), Florence (1983), Sicily (1986), Lombardy - Piedmont - Liguria - Aosta Valley (1987), Rome (2 volumes 1988), Tuscany (1990 ) and Apulia - Basilicata - Calabria (1994). Greece is available in full in two volumes (1982 and 1984). Only two volumes of the planned series on France have been published: Südfrankreich (1989) and Burgundy (1991). In 1992 the Baltic States picture handbook was published, which, unlike the original Russian edition, did not contain Belarus due to the change in the political situation. The series was discontinued in 1995. The volumes in preparation for Paris, Northern Poland, Caucasian Republics and Central Asian Republics have not appeared any more. Three volumes on Spain and Portugal, written by Heinz Schomann and initially intended for the series, were published from 1996 to 1998 in a modified form by the Scientific Book Society as a special edition in their “Special Scientific Series”. Two further volumes, which correspond to the Dehio manual in the picture part of the series and in the text part ( picture handbook Alsace-Lorraine and Byzantium / Constantinople / Istanbul by Walter Hotz ), have appeared outside of the series.
The volumes reached up to four mostly changed editions.
Goal of the series
In the words of the editor, Reinhardt Hootz, it made sense of the series "to create a corpus of the most important art monuments in the picture and thus to give the expert and art lover an impression of the works of art ..."
content
The linen-bound volumes, some of which are also available in paperback, contain, in addition to (mostly) 352 full-page black-and-white photographs, an art-historical introduction, explanations of the illustrations (which are much more concise than in the Dehio manual), an apparatus (chronology , Photo credits, map, partly bibliography). A number of color photographs were also added to the newer volumes and later editions in the West German editions.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scientific Book Society, annual catalog 1994
- ^ Heinz Schomann , Art Monuments of the Iberian Peninsula Part III, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Darmstadt 1998, p. 351, without ISBN
- ↑ Picture Handbook Baden-Württemberg (1959), p. VII