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A computerised compilation of contemporary art at Dutch exhibitions in the 19th century (CADENS)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Constant Cuypers
Constant Cuypers*
Affiliation:
Institute for the History of Art, Catholic University of Nijmegen, Erasmuplein 1, Nijmegen
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Abstract

CADENS is a project based at the Institute of Art History at the University of Nijmegen. The intention is to provide comprehensive access to information on contemporary art contained in all Dutch 19th century art exhibition catalogues, by means of a computer database. Two publications, a directory of artists and a keyword index, are envisaged.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , 1987 , pp. 42 - 44
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1987

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1. Three widely differing examples are: Graves, A., The Royal Academy of Arts. A complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, I-VIII, London, 1905-1906; Gordon, D.E., Modern Art Exhibitions 1906-1916. Selected Catalogue Documentation, I-II, Munich [1974]. (Materialien zur Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts, Bd. 14/I and II); The Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index, a data base housed at the National Museum of American Art (Smithsonian Institution), Washington DC. (For an abstract of this last project see Corti, L. [ed], Census Computerization in the history of Art, vol.1, Pisa, 1984, p.210–11).Google Scholar
2. Scheen, P. A., Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars 1750-1880, The Hague, 1981.Google Scholar
3. For the significance of this exhibition see the chapter ‘De Kunsttentoonstelling van 1808 en wat haar voorafging’ in Knoef, J., Tusschen Rococo en Romantiek. Een bundel kunsthistorische opstellen, The Hague, 1943, p. 135–52.Google Scholar
4. For example in Koolhaas-Grosfeld, E. and Ouwerkerk, A., ‘Bibliografie van vroeg negentiende-eeuwse Nederlandse kunstkritieken’, Oud Holland, vol.97, 1983, p.98–11.Google Scholar
5. The lexica used for this are the following, in the order given here: Scheen, op. cit. (note 2); Flippo, W.G., Lexicon of the Belgian Romantic Painters, Antwerp, 1981; Berko, P. & V., Dictionnaire des Peintres Belges nés entre 1750 et 1875, Knokke-le Zoute, 1981; Busse, J., Internationales Handbuch aller Maler and Bildhauer des 19. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden, 1977; Thieme, U. and Becker, F., Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler, I-XXXVII, Leipzig, 1907-1950.Google Scholar
6. Nieuws van Archieven, vol.5 no. 7/8, July/August 1986, p.185 and 187–88. Cordial assistance has been forthcoming from, among other libraries, those of the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) in The Hague, the Hague City Archives and the Haags Gemeentemuseum, the Institute of Art History of the University of Amsterdam and the Rijksmuseum.Google Scholar
7. A large part of the work up to now has been done by a group of first degree students in the context of a study project on the Nijmegen Exhibitions of Living Masters (1841, 1843 and 1846) and a volunteer. The persons concerned are Hans van Dijk, Manon Huisman, Nelleke van Laarhoven, Karl Rademacher, Marie-Louise Vromans, Johanna van Well-Jacobs, Elly Willems and Elsbeth Stiekema.Google Scholar