Orbis pictus: world art library

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Orbis pictus: Weltkunst-Bücherei is a series of books published by Paul Westheim on the art history of the various peoples of the world. It has been published by Ernst Wasmuth Verlag in Berlin since the early 1920s . Various scholars and collectors from different fields have contributed to it. Some volumes appeared without a year.

Overview

  • 1. Indian architecture. Preface by Paul Westheim
  • 2. Old Russian art. Fannina W. Halle
  • 3. Archaic sculpture of the Greeks. Woldemar Graf Uxkull-Gyllenband - digitized
  • 4. The Chinese landscape painting. Alfred Salmony
  • 5. Asian monumental sculpture. Karl With
  • 6. Indian miniatures of the Islamic period. Sattar Kheiri - digitized
  • 7. African plastic. Carl Einstein
  • 8. Ancient Mexican Art History. Walter Lehmann
  • 9. The art of the Hittites. Otto Weber
  • 10. Oldest German painting. Heinrich Ehl
  • 11. Medieval ivory work. Wolfgang Fritz Volbach
  • 12. Chinese small plastic. Otto Burchard
  • 13. Masks. Rudolf Utzinger
  • 14. Islamic architecture. Sattar Kheiri
  • 15. Classicism in France. Westheim, Paul (foreword)
  • 16. The earlier Japanese woodcut. Carl Einstein
  • 17. Northwest American Indian Art. Leonhard Adam
  • 18. The old French tapestries. Florent rock
  • 19. Assyrian sculpture. Otto Weber
  • 20. Early German stone sculptures. Heinrich Ehl