Propylaea art history

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The Propylaen Art History (often abbreviated: PKG ) is a German-language standard work on art history and archeology that has been published by Propylaen Verlag .

history

For the first time, Propylaea Art History was published in 24 volumes from 1923 to 1944. The first edition had a print run of 5,000 copies.

Another edition in 18 volumes took place from 1966 to 1983. They were edited with the advice of Kurt Bittel , Jan Fontein , Harald Keller , Fritz Novotny , Otto von Simson , Wolfgang Fritz Volbach , Stephan Waetzoldt and Rudolf Zeitler . This edition was reprinted in 1984–85. In 1990 the publisher brought out a twelve-volume, reduced-price special edition ( ISBN 3-54905113-1 ).

To this day it is regarded as the comprehensive, well-founded work on the development of art in the history of Europe and the world in German. Each volume consists of an approx. 150-page introduction that introduces the history of the respective epoch and the art-historical features of which are highlighted in differentiated aspects in the form of individual articles by various authors. This is followed by a blackboard section with approx. 400 black and white illustrations and approx. 60 color tables, which in turn are explained with accompanying texts and artists' vitae of approx. 250 two-column pages and are provided with further references. Each volume concludes with a detailed appendix with bibliography and index .

Outline of the work

In the second edition, which appeared in 1966, the work comprises 18 volumes, five supplementary volumes and three special volumes.

The main work is divided into two departments. The first section comprises twelve volumes and deals with the art of the classical world, the Middle Ages and the West. The second section comprises six volumes and deals with non-European and prehistoric art.

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  1. Karl Schefold : The Greeks and their Neighbors , 1967.
  2. Theodor Kraus : The Roman Empire , 1967.
  3. Wolfgang Fritz Volbach and Jacqueline Lafontaine-Dosogne : Byzantium and the Christian East , 1968.
  4. Janine Sourdel-Thomine and Bertold Spuler : The Art of Islam , 1968.
  5. Hermann Fillitz : The Middle Ages I , 1969.
  6. Otto von Simson : The Middle Ages II: The High Middle Ages , 1972.
  7. Jan Białostocki : Late Middle Ages and early modern times , 1967.
  8. Georg Kauffmann : The Art of the 16th Century , 1970.
  9. Erich Hubala : The Art of the 17th Century , 1970.
  10. Harald Keller : The Art of the 18th Century , 1971.
  11. Rudolf Zeitler : The Art of the 19th Century , 1966.
  12. Giulio Carlo Argan : The Art of the 20th Century 1880–1940 , 1977.
  13. Machteld J. Mellink and Jan Filip : The early stages of art , 1975.
  14. Winfried Orthmann : The old Orient , 1975.
  15. Claude Vandersleyen : The Art of Egypt , 1975.
  16. Herbert Härtel and Jeannine Auboyer : India and Southeast Asia , 1971.
  17. Jan Fontein and Rose Hempel : China, Korea, Japan , 1968.
  18. Gordon R. Willey : Old America , 1974.

There are also five supplement volumes published from 1977 to 1980.

  1. Beat Brenk : Late Antiquity and Early Christianity , 1977.
  2. Edward Lucie-Smith : Contemporary Art , 1978.
  3. Elsy Leuzinger : Art of Primitive People , 1978.
  4. Helmut Roth : Art of the Migration Period , 1979.
  5. Bernward Deneke : European Folk Art , 1980.

Three special volumes were also published.

  1. Friedrich H. Hofmann : The porcelain of European manufacturers , 1980.
  2. Adolf Feulner : Art History of Furniture , 1980.
  3. Helmut Gernsheim : History of Photography. The first 100 years , 1983.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A short story of a large publishing house. - The Propylaea publishing house.
  2. ^ History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries. P. 475.
  3. ^ Renate Prochno: The study of art history. A practical introduction. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-05-003406-8 , p. 132 u. P. 152. online .