Art guide

An art guide is a guide (reference work) that deals in depth with the art of a region and is mostly used by cultural tourists . Since art, above all, was often of a sacred nature in the past , a subgenre of its own has developed here with the church leader . If only the art presented in an exhibition is described, one speaks of an exhibition catalog .

history

With the advent of tourism , the interest in information about the sights to be found on a trip or an excursion grew . One of the first art guides was the description of the royal capital and residence city of Prague from 1794–1797, including all the interesting sights by Jaroslaus Schaller . The Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler by Georg Dehio has been available in several editions in Germany since 1905 , on which the Reclam publishing house later also relied with its art guides published from 1957.

Well-known art guide literature

• Christian art centers in Austria , Verlag St. Peter Salzburg
• The Christian monument (from 1953), Union Verlag Berlin , since 1990 the Quick Publishing and Steiner in the series Small Kunstführer continued
• Major architectural monuments (1944–1999), now DKV art guide , German art publisher
• HB art guide (1983–1997), HB sales and publishing company Hamburg
• Small art guide (from 1932), Verlag Schnell und Steiner
• Small art guide for Lower Saxony (1953–1993), Musterschmidt-Verlag
• Small art guides to churches, secular buildings and museums , Josef Fink art publisher
• Art guide of the Westphalian Heimatbund (1936–1958)
• East Frisian Art Guide (1962–1990), East Frisian Landscape
• Peda art guide
• Reclam's art guide (1958–1994), Philipp Reclam jun.
• Rheinische Kunststätten , Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection (RVDL)
• Swabian art monuments (from 1962)
• Swiss Art Guide , Society for Swiss Art History
• Westfälische Kunststätten (from 1977), Westfälischer Heimatbund

Art guide today

In addition to printed books, there are now an increasing number of audio guides that can be borrowed or listened to with a mobile phone . Information can also be called up on the smartphone .

See also

• travel Guide

Web links

1. ↑ http://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/search?q=Beschreibung+der+K%C3%B6niglichen+Haupt-+und+Residenzstadt+Prag+sammt+allen+darinn+befindlichen+sehensw%C3%BCrdigen+ Odds
2. ↑ http://www.dehio.org/handbuch/index.html
3. ↑ https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=idn%3D012672041
4. ↑ http://www.schnell-und-steiner.de/kunstfuehrer.ahtml?NKLN=11_RSA