Page   Outline (of Max Stern's library classification scheme)


1 - 31   1. Monographs (on artists)

32 - 34   2. Netherlandish Painting (Holland, Belgium)

35 - 44   3. German Painting (schools of different regions and periods)
  35   earlier period
  36 - 38   modern period (Romantics, Nazarenes)
  39 - 41   Rhenish art (Cologne, Middle Rhine)
  39 - 40   earlier period
  41   modern period
  42 - 43   South German, Swiss, and Austrian art
  42   earlier period
  43   modern period
  44   German sculpture and applied arts
      earlier period
      modern period

45 - 46   4. Spanish, French, Scandinavian, British art

47 - 48   5. Italian art (incl. Roman)

49 - 53   6. General art histories

54 - 56   7. Art techniques, forgeries, art theory and criticism (art materials, colour theory, psychology of collecting, historical monuments preservation, connoisseurship, philosophy of art)

57 - 58   8. Iconography, portraits, tapestries, patrons and collectors (architecture)

59   9. Dictionaries of art (paintings) prices and patrons

60   10. Biographies and Festschriften of art historians (dissertations)

61 - 62   11. Periodicals

63 - 73   12. Museum catalogues and guides to art monuments (art academies, collectors, galleries)

74   13. Encyclopaedias of artists
     

This outline, translated from the original German, appears on the first page of a list of books in Max Stern's library (the list is in the Dominion Gallery Archives, National Gallery, Ottawa). It was probably made before the books were packed in preparation for Stern's departure from Germany in 1937. The classification scheme was probably invented by Stern.

(SEE ALSO Max Stern's Library).