Hans F. Schweers (EDT) Gemalde in Museen - Deutschland, Osterreich, Schweiz

Annotation

Paintings in Museums presents a systematic index of the entire holdings of works, both on display and in deposits, owned by over 645 museums in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This edition, recording some 36,000 paintings, 8,600 artists and 100 museums more than its predecessor, is also the first one to incorporate museums in Austria and Switzerland. New details on numerous artists and paintings have been added. The addresses of all museums have been updated. Where available, the e-mail and internet addresses have been included for the first time. Paintings in Museums allows users to locate paintings, pastels, gouaches, as well as mixed-media works from all ages, genres and styles - a total of more than 178,000 paintings by some 31,200 artists. Paintings in Museums consists of three parts: Artists and Their Works Iconographic Index Museums and Their Paintings Listing artists alphabetically, Artists and Their Works provides biographical data. Entries record paintings by location, along with work title, year of origin, media and format. Part 2, Iconographic Index, indexes works by nearly 300 motif groups, according to the painting's content and theme. Finally, Museums and Their Paintings lists all paintings by museum.