Christian art paper for church, school and home

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Title page of the first edition from 1858

The Christian Art Journal for Church, School and Home was an art magazine for Protestant Christians that appeared in Stuttgart from 1858 to 1919.

Overview

Journal title Christian art paper for church, school and home
genus Art magazine
Readership Evangelical Christians interested in art
founder Carl Grüneisen , Karl Schnaase , Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
editor Carl Grüneisen, Karl Schnaase, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Carl Gottfried Pfannschmidt , Heinrich von Merz , Johannes von Merz , Markus Zucker , David Koch , Oskar Thulin
History of publication [1.] 1858, October - [20.] 1878
21.1879 - 61.1919, December
62.1927, August
Not published: 1920 - 1927, July
Frequency of publication monthly (with exceptions)
publishing company 1858-1873 Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart; 1874-1907 Steinkopf, Stuttgart; 1908-1910 Callwey, Munich; 1908-1919 Verlag für Volkskunst Richard Keutel, Stuttgart; 1927 Publishing House for Folk Art and Education Richard Keutel, Lahr in Baden
Page size at least 196 pages, from 1904 at least 384 pages per year
(except 1858 and 1927; without lists and enclosures)
Side dishes 1911-1912: pamphlet of the Volkskunstbund (6 issues)
also: picture supplements and sheet music
ISSN 0930-4223
ZDB ID 515444-3
abbreviation CKBK

The Christian Kunstblatt was founded and published in 1858 under the aegis of Carl Grüneisen together with Karl Schnaase and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. In 1857, Grüneisen, together with others, was in charge of founding the Association for Christian Art in the Protestant Church of Württemberg , of which he was the first chairman until his death. The association was directed against a state-organized church building program and had set itself the goal of influencing Protestant church building and the church members' understanding of art.

The magazine wanted to address Protestant Christians who were interested in art, but were not professionals. This is also what the subtitle of the magazine "for church, school and home" should express. Most of the longstanding publishers changed over the years when a previous editor died or left because of overwork. The magazine continued to appear in the same number of pages during the First World War until it was discontinued in 1919.

editor

  • Carl Grüneisen

  • Karl Schnaase

  • Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld

The magazine was founded in October 1858. The founding editors were:

The initiative for founding the magazine came from Carl Grüneisen, the son of the first editor of the Morgenblatt for educated estates , for which he also made art historical contributions. He wrote the programmatic foreword to the first edition of the magazine (Grüneisen 1858).

Changes of publisher took place when a publisher died or left due to overwork. Over the years, the following editors joined the founders of the magazine:

  • the painter Carl Gottfried Pfannschmidt (1819-1887) in Berlin
  • the Protestant theologian Heinrich von Merz (1816-1893), senior consistorial councilor in Stuttgart
  • the Protestant theologian Johannes von Merz (1857-1929), son of Heinrich von Merz
  • the library director Markus Zucker (1841-1915) in Erlangen
  • the Protestant theologian David Koch (1869-1920), pastor in Unterbalzheim , in Stuttgart from 1910
  • the Protestant theologian and archaeologist Oskar Thulin (1898-1971) in Halle

David Koch was sole editor from 1904 until his death in 1920 (the last volume was published in 1919).

The following table shows the list of publishers and the period of their effectiveness.

From To editor
1858 1871 Carl Grüneisen, Karl Schnaase, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
1872 Carl Grüneisen, Karl Schnaase
1873 1875 Carl Grüneisen, Karl Schnaase, Carl Gottfried Pfannschmidt
1876 1877 Carl Grüneisen, Carl Gottfried Pfannschmidt
1878 1887 Carl Gottfried Pfannschmidt, Heinrich von Merz
1888 1893 Heinrich von Merz
1894 1900 Johannes von Merz
1901 1903 Johannes von Merz, Markus Zucker
1904 1918 David Koch
1919 NN
1927 Oskar Thulin

History of publication

In the founding year 1858, the Christliche Kunstblatt appeared in six issues from October of that year. From 1859 to 1919 a monthly issue was delivered, occasionally and last year also a double issue for two months. With the 1919 year, which was still fully published, the magazine was discontinued due to publishing problems. It appeared again with a booklet in August 1927, but was not continued.

In the first 21 years the volumes remained unnumbered, from 1879 the volume number was given on the title page of the individual issues, from 1904 also on the title page of the volume. Since the editors counted the year volume 1879 as the twentieth year, the first year 1858 should actually have been assigned the number 0. Usually, however, the two years 1858 and 1859 are subsumed together under the year number 1.

Frequency of publication

Starting in 1860, twelve issues were sent out annually, with a volume of around 192 pages per year. From 1904 the number of pages was increased to at least 384 per year.

In the early years of 1858-1859, a booklet with a length of 8 pages was sent out every 14 days. From 1860–1862 the issues were delivered monthly as double numbers and with a length of 16 pages. From 1863 to the discontinuation of the magazine in 1919, deliveries were usually carried out monthly, with the individual issues being labeled with the month number, from 1903 with the month name. A monthly issue consisted of 16 pages until 1903, 32 pages from 1904 and 32–64 pages from 1913. In August 1927, after a seven-year break, the last issue with 36 pages was published. The page numbers of a volume were numbered consecutively.

From To period Number of pages
per issue 		Number of pages
per volume 		Counting
the booklets
1858 14 days 8th 54 Number 1-6
1859 14 days 8th 196 Number 1-24
1860 1862 month 16 196 Double number 1 / 2-23 / 24
1863 1902 month 16 196 Number 1-12
1903 month 16 196 January December
1904 1919 month 32 384 January December
1913 1918 month 32-48 384 January December
1919 2 months 64 384 January / February – November / December
1927 month 36 - August

program

In the programmatic foreword to the first edition of the Christian Art Journal (Grüneisen 1858), Carl Grüneisen formulated the guiding principles on which the publication of the magazine was based. According to the editors, art should be “in the willing service of Christianity”. The magazine should not become a “lecture hall for art philosophy, antiquity and art criticism”, rather it should “have a practical, instructive and edifying effect” and serve the “interest and understanding of the Christian people”. The task of the sheet should be the "description of important older and more recent works of architecture, sculpture and painting, as well as the reproductive drawing arts". The traditional “puritanical zeal” should also be counteracted, which in its hostility to art is “the ruin of beautiful churches, the decline of magnificent sculptures, [...], the deformity of modern restorations and the like. like. had the consequence ".

When David Koch became sole editor in 1904, he too wrote a programmatic introduction that he titled “Our Entrance” (Koch 1904). In his opinion, the main aim of the magazine should be "the utilization of art for life". With the “redesign of the art paper” it should be taken into account that architecture has the task of “creating new places of worship which correspond to the spirit and purpose of the evangelical confession”. Koch wanted to set up a kind of “consultation room” in the magazine, in which the “lay people interested in Christianity - and the pastors” could have a say and ensure that “some direct words from the mouth, from the pen of our artists” find their place would. The magazine should pay attention to “the freedom of art”, but “the ideal of Christian art [must] be the German type of representational values ​​of Christian art”, a motto that corresponds to the national ethos of the time.

distribution

Publicly accessible information about the distribution of the Christian Art Journal is only available for the years 1859-1861 (see literature, statistics ). According to this, there were 1446 subscribers in 1859, 1348 in 1860 and 1274 in 1861, so the 1859 circulation decreased by around 100 copies a year. The magazine found most buyers in the years 1859-1861 in the "home state" Württemberg (around 200), in Saxony (over 100), in Bavaria (around 100) and in Prussia (around 500).

A large part of the Württemberg subscribers were members of the Association for Christian Art in the Protestant Church of Württemberg , just as the Association for Christian Art in Berlin purchased over 200 copies. Apparently the magazine was automatically delivered to the members of the Volkskunstbund like a club magazine. This emerges from a message that appeared in the Christian Kunstblatt in 1911: “The previous form of membership [...] remains with a federal contribution of 8 marks - for which the Kunstblatt including pamphlets is supplied [...]. "

Title page and cover

For almost half a century, from 1858 to 1903, the title page remained unchanged, then it changed its appearance four times under the editorship of David Koch. Two variants of the front cover are known during Koch's editing.

  • Title page 1858-1903

  • Title page 1904-1907

  • Title page 1908

  • Title page 1909-1911, 1915-1919

  • Title page 1912-1914

  • front cover from 1913

  • front cover from 1915

  • front cover 1927

Directories

All years are provided with a table of contents. Registers are missing from 1908, lists of illustrations from 1879 (exceptions: see below).

Contents. Until 1907, the table of contents, which was sometimes also referred to as the content display or content , consisted of a 1- or 2-page table of contents of the individual booklets, with the article headings per booklet and without page numbers being strung together. From 1908 onwards, the volumes were provided with a structured, 5- to 7-page table of contents with page numbers. In each issue, the table of contents was divided into groups (essays, picture supplements, text images, sheet music supplements). Instead of a list of illustrations, the illustrations were listed in booklets under the heading of picture supplements or text images.
See also: literature, table of contents .

Register. Up until 1907 and, as an exception, again in 1911, each year had a register. The names of the registers changed, whereby the term register and mostly also the identifying words subject and name or person were included. The registers contained keywords from the individual booklets in alphabetical order. The quality of the registers varies; sometimes they were very short and sometimes very long.
See also: literature, register .

Illustrations directory. From 1859 to 1878, each year was accompanied by a list of illustrations (“List of Illustrations”), except for the years 1862 and 1870-1871. The images are listed alphabetically by keywords and with page numbers.
See also: literature, list of illustrations .

  • Table of contents 1862

  • Table of contents 1908
    (1st page)

  • Register 1885
    (1st page)

  • List of Illustrations 1863

Lists, registers, extracts

  • Christian art paper for church, school and home, list of illustrations 1858-1919 ( PDF ).
  • Christian art paper for church, school and home, table of contents 1858-1919, 1927 ( PDF ).
  • Christian art paper for church, school and home, register 1858-1919 ( PDF ).
  • Carl Grüneisen: Foreword . In: Christian Art Journal for Church, School and House 1.1858, Pages 1–5 ( PDF ).
  • Carl Grüneisen: Statistics of the distribution of the Christian art paper for 1859, 1860, 1861 . In: Christian Art Journal for Church, School and House 2.1860, page 15, 3.1861, page 16, 4.1862, page 32 ( PDF ).
  • David Koch: Our entrance . In: Christian Art Journal for Church, School and House 46.1904, Pages 1–6 ( PDF ).
  • NN : D. David Koch † [Nekrolog] . In: Christian Art Journal for Church, School and House , 61.1919, page 321. ( PDF ).

literature

Web links

Commons : Christian art paper for church, school and home  - collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the catalog of the journal database (ZDB) the publication history is “1. [1911]; 2.1911 - 6.1912 [?] ". In fact, the numbers 1-6 were added to the years 1911 and 1912. In the 1913 table of contents, an article in volume 4 (page 113 ff.) Is referred to as number 8 and an article in issue 8/9 (page 285 ff.) Is referred to as pamphlet of the Volkskunstbund number 8 and 9, respectively. A number 7 is not mentioned.
  2. ↑ Source: Theologische Realenzyklopädie , List of Abbreviations.
  3. ↑ See Metzinger 1992 and NN 1919.
  4. ↑ David Koch died on May 17, 1820. The last double issue 11/12 of 1919 contains the necrology in Koch (by an unnamed author, probably by the publisher not named in 1919), so that one must assume that the issue was only delivered after Koch's death. In the necrology it says: "He [Koch] himself put together the material for this last issue" (NN 1919).
  5. ↑ Minimum information, often a few more pages. The title page and table of contents were numbered with Roman numerals and are not included here (up to 1907 IV pages, from 1908 VIII pages).
  6. ↑ From October.
  7. ↑ Only the August issue appeared.
  8. ^ The association for Christian art in the Protestant Church of Württemberg had 420 members in 1859 (1875 1220, 1877 1196).
  9. ↑ Since the covers are mostly missing in the library volumes that were viewed for examination, only two variants of the front cover from the time of Koch's editing can be shown.