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This online edition of the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon International Artists Database is the most extensive, up-to-date and authoritative art-history reference database. It contains information on visual artists from all over the world and throughout the ages, from antiquity to the present. The database makes the complete articles from all published volumes of the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (AKL) searchable, plus gives access to short biographical information (index data) extracted from articles in the AKL and the well-known reference works Thieme-Becker (A to Z) and Vollmer (A to Z). For the part of the alphabet not yet covered by the AKL, it contains short biographical information from the AKL’s Bio-Bibliographical Index A-Z (AKL Index). For the letters of the alphabet of the included AKL volumes, the database also includes artist entries from the AKL editorial archive relating to artists who did not meet the dictionary’s inclusion criteria (AKLArchiv).