Pan (magazine)
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Advertising poster 1895/96 by Joseph Sattler
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| description | German art and literature magazine |
| publishing company | Fontane, Berlin |
| First edition | 1895 |
| attitude | 1900 |
| editor | PAN cooperative |
PAN was an arts, crafts and literary magazine that appeared in Berlin from 1895 to 1900 and was founded by Otto Julius Bierbaum and Julius Meier-Graefe . The first issue with the Panskopf designed by Franz von Stuck was published in April 1895.
PAN is considered the most important Art Nouveau organ in Germany. The magazine printed numerous illustrations designed by well-known and still unknown young artists. There were also full-page original graphics, a simple, modern typography as well as vignettes and other decorative elements. Among the best-known artists who published in PAN were Franz von Stuck , who contributed the picture for the title page of the first edition, Félix Vallotton , whose woodcuts only became known to a wider public through publications in PAN , and Thomas Theodor Heine . Other important visual artists of the PAN were Henry van de Velde , Max Klinger , Ludwig von Hofmann , Max Liebermann , Otto Eckmann , Hans Baluschek and Walter Leistikow .
In literary terms, there were stories and poems in the PAN magazine that were assigned to symbolism , naturalism and impressionism , but also many works that could not be assigned to any epoch. The magazine embodied the beginnings of literary modernity in all its diversity as well as in its contradictions. The most important authors included Otto Julius Bierbaum, Max Dauthendey , Richard Dehmel and Arno Holz .
PAN also published reports on developments in the arts and crafts. For example, furniture designs by Henry van de Velde and essays were printed by him. Peter Behrens was represented with two woodcuts, including his famous kiss. Articles on carpets, frames, windows, ex libris, chap books, book covers and other arts and crafts have been published over the years. This largely corresponded to the wishes of the leading figures on the PAN Supervisory Board such as Eberhard von Bodenhausen , Harry Graf Kessler , Wilhelm von Bode and Alfred Lichtwark .
In 1910 the literary magazine PAN was re-established as a bi-monthly publication under the direction of the Berlin art dealer and publisher Paul Cassirer . From 1912 Alfred Kerr was the sole editor ; between 1913 and the final discontinuation in 1915, the magazine PAN appeared only irregularly. The new magazine was very different from the old one in that it only published literature, whereas the original publication also published essays on art history and articles on the arts and crafts. The new magazine was also smaller and less luxurious.
From 1980 a magazine of the same name Pan with the subtitle "Our wonderful world" with an initial print run of 300,000 copies was published by Franz Burda . In 1984 she absorbed the traditional magazine Die Kunst und das Schöne Heim . In the spring of 1992, Pan - Our wonderful world - appeared in the magazine Ambiente - The Art of Living, which is also published by Burda Verlag .
literature
- Donatelle Germanese: Pan (1910-1915). Writer in the context of a magazine. Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-82601755-2 .
- Gisela Henze: The Pan. History and profile of a magazine from the turn of the century. Dissertation. Freiburg im Breisgau 1974.
- Max Koss: The Art of the Periodical. Pan, Print Culture and the Birth of Modern Design. Dissertation. The University of Chicago. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2019. 22585232.
- Anne Schulten: Eros des Nordens: Reception and communication of Scandinavian art in the context of the magazine Pan, 1895–1900. Frankfurt a. M. 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58018-9 .
- Jutta Thamer: Between Historicism and Art Nouveau. to furnish the magazine Pan (1895–1900). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-8204-6659-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich Ott, (Ed.): Harry Graf Kessler, Diary of a Weltmann. Marbach catalogs 43, 1988, p. 45
