Reclam's art guide

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Reclam's art guide is the name of a series of books published by Reclam Verlag in Stuttgart between 1958 and 1994 .

In contrast to the Handbook of German Art Monuments founded by Georg Dehio , which is still being continued today by the Deutscher Kunstverlag , Reclam's art guide was aimed at a "broader, art-interested audience." The series enjoyed great popularity at times, so that several volumes appeared in several (up to 9), repeatedly expanded and revised editions.

In contrast to the Handbook of German Art Monuments, the art guides of the Reclam Verlag also listed a number of contemporary buildings as well as the most important museums and collections with a selection of their exhibits . In addition, unlike the Dehio, the books contained a number of black and white illustrations. The handy format corresponded to the editions of Reclam's universal library , the volumes are also referred to as part of the universal library with number.

The first volume of Reclam's art guide was published in 1957 on the state of Bavaria . In the same year Baden-Württemberg followed with the Palatinate and Saarland , in 1959 the Rhineland and Westphalia and finally in 1960 as Volume 4 Lower Saxony with the Hanseatic cities of Bremen and Hamburg . This covered the western German federal states. Later the volumes were subdivided more and more. In 1967, for the first time, a separate volume was dedicated to the state of Hessen . The volume Lower Saxony, Hanseatic Cities, Schleswig-Holstein now appeared as volume no. 5 in the series. In 1979, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland left the Baden-Württemberg band and in 1980 were also given their own edition. In 1983, the volume of the state of Bavaria, which is particularly rich in architectural monuments, was divided.

In 1961, Reclam's art guide jumped the German borders for the first time with two volumes on Austria . In the period that followed, further volumes appeared on several neighboring European countries, for example for Italy (from 1962), France (from 1965), Switzerland and Liechtenstein (from 1966), Turkey (1976), Denmark (1978), Sweden , Finland (both 1985) and Spain (from 1986). The foreign volumes in particular enjoyed great esteem among experts, because "as a substitute for missing manuals of the Dehio type, Reclam's art guides had an irreplaceable function for non-German-speaking countries, which was also recognized by art historians in the countries concerned."

The East German regions were not processed. Only the volume on Berlin , published for the first time in 1977 , included the eastern part of the city and part of the territory of the GDR .

Towards the end of the 1970s, the appearance of the series changed significantly. The linen cover was replaced by a plastic cover and the dust jacket was set off in orange and blue. Later, the dust jacket was completely dispensed with and the volumes were provided with a plastic cover in orange and blue. At the beginning of the 1990s, they finally switched to bringing out some titles in a much larger format. The volumes Berlin (1991) and Florenz were published in this format . However, there was no longer a complete revision of the series. With the new edition of the Rome volume (1994), the art guide series was finally completely discontinued, presumably because the sales figures were far below expectations.

Volumes

Germany

  • I: Bavaria (1957, 3rd edition 1959, 5th edition 1964, 6th edition 1966)
  • II: Baden-Württemberg, Pfalz, Saarland (1957, 2nd edition 1958, 3rd edition 1960, 4th edition 1962)
  • III: Rhineland and Westphalia (1959, 2nd edition 1961, 3rd edition 1964)
  • IV: Lower Saxony, Hanseatic cities, Schleswig-Holstein, Hesse (1960, 2nd edition 1962)

Distribution from 1967:

  • I: Bavaria (7th edition 1970, 8th edition 1974)
  • II: Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland (5th edition 1967, 6th edition 1971)
  • III: Rhineland and Westphalia (4th edition 1969, 5th edition 1975)
  • IV: Hessen (3rd, revised edition 1967, 4th edition 1971)
  • V: Lower Saxony, Hanseatic cities, Schleswig-Holstein (3rd edition 1967, 4th edition 1971, 5th edition 1976)

Final split:

  • I, 1: Bavaria South: Upper Bavaria, Lower Bavaria, Swabia (9th edition 1983)
  • I, 2: Bavaria North (9th edition 1983)
  • II: Baden-Württemberg (7th edition 1979, 8th edition 1985)
  • III: North Rhine-Westphalia (6th edition 1982)
  • IV: Hessen (5th edition 1978, 6th edition 1987)
  • V: Lower Saxony, Hanseatic cities, Schleswig-Holstein (6th edition 1984)
  • VI: Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland (7th edition 1980, 8th edition 1990)
  • VII: Berlin (1977, 2nd edition 1977, 3rd edition 1987, 4th edition 1991 in larger format)
  • In 1980 an art guide on the city of Cologne was published as volume 10299 of the Universal Library on the 100th anniversary of the cathedral's completion. The basis was the article about Cologne written by Fried Mühlberg for the 1975 volume "Rheinlande und Westfalen"

Denmark

  • (1978)

Finland

  • (1985)

France

  • I: Paris and Versailles (1970, 2nd edition 1979)
  • II: Alsace (1980)
  • III: Lorraine (1983)
  • IV: Provence, Cote d´Azur, Dauphiné, Rhone Valley (1967, 2nd edition 1975)
  • V: Burgundy (1987)

Italy

  • I, 1: Lombardy (1981)
  • I, 2: Piedmont, Liguria, Aosta Valley (1982)
  • II: Northern Italy (1965), later divided into two volumes:
    • II, 1: Venice, Brenta Villas, Chioggia, Murano, Torcello (2nd edition 1974, 3rd edition 1985)
    • II, 2: Südtirol, Trentino, Venezia Giulia, Friuli, Veneto (2nd edition 1974, 3rd edition 1981)
  • III, 1: Florence and Fiesole (1962, 2nd edition 1969, 3rd edition 1975, 1993 edition in larger format)
  • III, 2: Tuscany (1984)
  • IV: Emilia-Romagna, Marche and Umbria (1971, 3rd edition 1987)
  • V: Rome and Latium (1962, 2nd edition 1969, 3rd edition 1974, 4th edition 1981; 1994 edition as Rome Art Guide in larger format)
  • VI: Naples and the surrounding area (1971, 2nd edition 1983)

The volume "Florenz" was published in 1971 in an English translation by the Phaidon Press, London.

Austria

  • I: Vienna, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Burgenland (1961, 2nd edition 1963, 3rd edition 1968, 4th 1974, 5th edition 1981)
  • II: Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Carinthia, Styria (1961, 2nd edition 1962, 3rd edition 1968, 4th 1974, 5th edition 1981)

Sweden

  • (1985)

Switzerland and Liechtenstein

  • (1966, 2nd edition 1968, 3rd edition 1979)

Spain

  • I: Madrid and Central Spain (1986)
  • II: Andalusia (1992)

Turkey

  • Istanbul, Bursa, Erdine, Iznik (1976)

References and comments

  1. ^ Angela Karasch: Monuments inventories. A typology based on selected new publications. In: Informationsmittel für Libraries Vol. 3 (1995), Heft 3, S. 403
  2. ↑ Review of: Art Guide Florence. In: Information material for libraries 3rd year (1995), volume 3
  3. ↑ Review of: Art Guide Florence. In: Information material for libraries 3rd year (1995), volume 3
  4. ↑ cf. on this the back of the dust jacket of the Lower Saxony, Hanseatic Cities, Schleswig-Holstein edition of 1984