Comprehensive scholarly biographical dictionary for painters, sculptors, engravers, architects, and decorative artists. Includes signed articles by prominent scholars, as well as extensive bibliographies, and locations of important collections. Because of long publication run, early volumes more dated than later volumes. Don't miss the handlist of abbreviations at the end of the set if your German is rusty. Millwood, Kraus International, 1992.
Most entries appear in more than one section.
From the Early Renaissance to the Present Day . A comprehensive listing of works by 1,300 painters and a complete guide to their locations worldwide in three volumes. An alphabetical list of all the painters is included in volume 1. Volumes 2 and 3 contain an alphabetical lists by place and institution of all collections mentioned in the list of painters.