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Unique source material on the German art trade digitally networked: Provenances, actors and objects in hand and protocol catalogues of auction and inventory catalogues 1860-1950

The DFG project, which will be carried out jointly by the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich and Heidelberg University Library from summer 2024, continues the work begun in the previous project on the annotated manuscript copies of the Helbing auction house and takes up the desiderata documented there: On the one hand, the need formulated by the specialist community for searchability and identification of the groups of people involved in historical auctions, in addition to the dealers themselves, especially the consignors and clients, and on the other hand, the facilitation of in-depth research into auction and trading practices and networks and the conditions of the circulation of objects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. and the early 20th century.

The project pursues three specific goals:

the expansion of the source base through the digitisation, library indexing and typification of further holdings of hand and protocol catalogues of relevant auction houses or art dealers from the years 1860 to 1950 (approx. 1,380 catalogues).
the in-depth indexing of the catalogues digitised as part of the DFG project ‘Unique source material on the German art trade: digitisation and indexing of auctioneer's copies of the catalogues of the Munich auction house Hugo Helbing (1887 to 1937)’ as well as the newly digitised hand and protocol catalogues. The names on the lists of consignors and auctioneers will be recorded and disambiguated. In addition, the objects offered ‘outside the catalogue’ are to be recorded and thus made automatically findable.
creation of a comprehensive index of the recorded names on the basis of TEI-XML including enrichment with GND standard data. The project pursues three specific goals:

The digitisation and online publication of the following collections is planned:

Amsler & Ruthardt, Berlin (approx. 110 catalogues, period: 1862-1929)
Auktionshaus Rudolf Bangel, Frankfurt a. M. (approx. 860 catalogues, period: 1883-1928)
Kunsthandlung Julius Böhler, Munich (9 catalogues, period: 1937-1938)
Galerie Heinemann, Munich (289 catalogues, period: 1880-1935)
Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin (approx. 100 catalogues, period: 1913-1940)
Karl & Faber auction house, Munich (29 catalogues, period: 1927-1948)
Antiquariat Jacques Rosenthal, Munich (114 catalogues, period: 1917-1950)
Münchener Kunstversteigerungshaus Adolf Weinmüller, Munich and Vienna (70 catalogues, period: 1936-1944)
Galerie Wimmer, Munich (3 albums, period: unknown, ca. 1900-1945)

Unique source material on the German art trade digitally networked: Provenances, actors and objects in hand and protocol catalogues of auction and inventory catalogues 1860-1950

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