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Vorkämpfer für Kunstverleih Champions of picture lending

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Horst Dietze
Horst Dietze*
Affiliation:
Internationales Archiv für Kunstverleih und Bildereien, Forstweg 58, 1000 Berlin 28 Frohnau
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Abstract

Picture lending has, at different times and in different places, been championed by individuals who have regarded it — with some difference of emphasis and interpretation — as a means both of helping artists and of bringing art into people’s lives. Ten such individuals are profiled: Heinrich Schulz; the more radical Otto Nagel, and Rudolf Bosselt, who were active in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s; Franz Roh and Eva Pietzsch, whose work continued into the post-War period in West Germany; Pieter Kooistra, founder of the SBK network in the Netherlands; Knud Pedersen in Denmark; Karl-Heinz Bolay, who became a leading librarian in Sweden; and Heinz Werner and Isolde PreiBler, who championed the cause of picture lending in East Germany, in circumstances which imposed severe limitations on what could be achieved until German unification opened up new possibilities. (An English version follows the German original).

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , 1993 , pp. 29 - 38
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1993

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1 Dietze, Horst. ‘Kunstverleih – warum?’ Art Libraries Journal vol. 12, no. 3, 1987, p.19–23.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 The central German Parliament.

3 Dietze, Horst. ‘Arthur Segal: picture lending and an artist’s life’. Art Libraries Journal vol. 15, no. 2, 1990, p.10–14.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 1927 in Stuttgart.

5 Roh, Franz. Der verkannte Künstler. Studien zur Geschichte und Theorie des kulturellen Miβversändnisses. Munich, 1948.Google Scholar

6 Pedersen, Knut. Kampen mod Borgermusikken. Copenhagen, 1968.Google Scholar

7 Bolay, Karl H. Att låna ut knost. Artoteksverksamhet vid svenska bibliotek. Lund, 1967 Google Scholar.

8 cf Holborn Public Library, see 3 above.

9 The first known German picture lending scheme was the Arnoldische Kunst-und Lesemagazin in Dresden, 1802.

10 See also Becher, Johannes R. ‘Museum der Reproduktionen’. Publizistik III 1946–1951, p.397–399.Google Scholar