"Following in the footsteps of Friedrich Hollstein, who began producing volumes on the German school (in 1954) five years after his first volume on the Dutch and Flemish artists, Sound & Vision's first volume of The New Hollstein German series followed three years after the first volume in the accompanying new series. Users of the other new series were familiar with the editors' objectives, namely to update and perfect the information contained in the old volumes compiled by Friedrich Hollstein (1888-1957) himself. The improvements of the Hollstein series in recent years made the shortcomings of the early volumes unacceptable. Only about one-quarter of the catalogued prints were illustrated in them. This alone was enough to make the early volumes obsolete. Moreover, all the serious users agree that the information they contain is often incomplete and sometimes inaccurate"--Publisher