Provenances, actors and objects in auctioneer's copies of auction and stock catalogues 1860-1950 Unique source material on the German art trade digitally networked

The project continues the work begun in the previous project on the annotated hand copies of the Helbing auction house and takes up the desiderata documented there: on the one hand, the need formulated by the specialist community for searchability and identification of the groups of people involved in the context of historical auctions, in addition to the dealers themselves here above all the consignors and clients, and on the other hand, the facilitation of more in-depth research into auction and trading practices as well as networks and the conditions of the circulation of objects in the late 19th and early 20th century.

The project has three specific goals: 

1. to expand the source base by digitising, indexing and typifying further collections of hand and protocol catalogues of relevant auction houses and art dealers from the years 1860 to 1950 (approx. 1,380 catalogues). 
2. in-depth indexing of the hand copies of the catalogues of the Munich auction house Hugo Helbing (1887 to 1937) digitised within the framework of the DFG project "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)" as well as the newly digitised hand and protocol catalogues. The names on the lists of consignors and auction buyers will be recorded and disambiguated. In addition, the objects offered" outside the catalogue" are to be recorded and thus made findable by machine.  
3. creation of a comprehensive index of the recorded names on the basis of TEI-XML incl. enrichment with GND standard data.