Unique source material on the German art trade: digitization and indexing of auctioneer's copies of the catalogues of the Munich auction house Hugo Helbing (1887 to 1937)

德国艺术品贸易的独特来源材料：慕尼黑拍卖行 Hugo Helbing（1887 年至 1937 年）拍卖师目录副本的数字化和索引

• 批准号: 451092879
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Ulrich Pfisterer
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2019-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/451092879?language=en
• 关键词: Unique; source; material; German; art

The aim of the project is on the one hand the digitization and sustainable online provision of approx. 1,115 auctioneer's copies of the catalogues of the Munich auction house Hugo Helbing (1895 to 1937) on the servers of the Heidelberg University Library. The annotated copies usually contain not only complete information about the consignors - and thus provenances - of the auctioned artworks, but also about the buyers and the prices attained at the auction. This unique source material on the history of the German art trade is of exceptional importance for many research questions. On the other hand, the project will include the scientific description of the annotated catalogue copies, a typification and systematisation of the auction annotations as well as the development and evaluation of a model for their structured recording on the basis of the Heidelberg annotation tool heiANNO. With this editing, the project breaks new ground; there are no models or forerunners that allow orientation or even adaptation. Only the experiences gained by the ZI in a short-term project are comparable. In contrast to this project from 2013, in which the catalogues did not even extend over a decade (1936-1944), the Helbing catalogues run for exactly half a century (1887-1937). Generations of authorized officers, managing directors, partners and employees of Helbing were the authors of the various types of annotations (hand log, estimate prices/limits, over-the-counter sales record, records for authorities such as the Munich police department, etc.). One must therefore assume a much greater variety of entries.The heterogeneity of the annotations first requires the creation of a typology: Which systematics do the entries follow? What type of information has been recorded? These questions can only be answered when all digital copies of all catalogues (with a total of approx. 116,000 pages) are actually available and can be analyzed. In this context, and in the sense of a pilot project, it will also be necessary to develop an understanding of which annotation refers to which circumstances, because the entries do not always refer to consignors, the hammer price and buyers; limits can also be expected - sometimes encoded, in letters such as "RJHE" - or written bids. The greatest care and precision is required in this area because the information is of the highest relevance and ultimately even of legal significance worldwide for the claims of claimants and for provenance researchers to museums and collections.

该项目的目的一方面是数字化和可持续地在线提供约。海德堡大学图书馆服务器上的1115份慕尼黑拍卖行雨果·海尔宾(1895-1937)的目录副本。带注解的复制品通常不仅包含拍卖艺术品的委托人的完整信息--因此也包含来源的完整信息，而且还包含关于买家和拍卖价格的完整信息。这份关于德国艺术品贸易历史的独一无二的素材对许多研究问题具有特别重要的意义。另一方面，该项目将包括对带注释的目录副本进行科学描述，对拍卖注释进行类型化和系统化，并根据海德堡注释工具heianno开发和评价其结构化记录模式。通过这次编辑，这个项目有了新的突破；没有允许定位甚至改编的模型或先行者。只有ZI在短期项目中获得的经验才具有可比性。与2013年的这个项目形成鲜明对比的是，在这个项目中，目录甚至没有超过十年(1936-1944)，而赫宾的目录正好运行了半个世纪(1887-1937)。赫宾的几代授权官员、董事总经理、合伙人和员工都是各种类型注释的作者(手工记录、估计价格/限制、柜台销售记录、慕尼黑警察局等当局的记录等)。因此，我们必须假设词条的种类要多得多。注释的异质性首先需要创建一个类型学：这些词条遵循哪些系统学？记录了哪些类型的信息？这些问题只有在所有目录的所有数字副本(总数约为116,000页)实际上是可用的，可以分析。在这种情况下，在试点项目的意义上，还有必要了解哪些批注指的是哪种情况，因为条目并不总是指发货人、锤子价格和买受人；限制也是可以预期的--有时是以“RJHE”等字母编码的--或书面出价。在这一领域需要最大的谨慎和精确度，因为这些信息对索赔人的索赔以及博物馆和收藏品的来源研究人员来说，具有最高的相关性，最终甚至具有法律意义。