The database Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon -- World Biographical Dictionary of Artists Online is the most extensive, up-to-date and authoritative art-history reference database.

Artists from all over the globe and throughout the ages from antiquity to the present are recorded in this major database. Right from the start it already contains:

• about one million biographical profiles of artists from the three great standard works on the history of art, the Thieme-Becker, the Vollmer and the Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon (AKL)
• 173,000 full text articles from the volumes of the Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon published
• approximately 240,000 entries on artists from the AKL editorial archive not published in the printed edition
• approximately 363,000 short biographical entries from the AKL's Bio-Bibliographical index A-Z (AKL-Index) for the letters not yet covered by AKL articles

A multitude of search criteria allow quick and easy access to profiles of painters, graphic artists, sculptors, architects, craftsmen -- exponents of the visual arts of all cultures from ancient times to the present day. The database is always brought up-to-date when the latest CD-ROM edition Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon -- Internationale Kunstlerdatenbank is released.