The Allgemeines Ku nstlerlexikon (AKL) is the most extensive, up-to-date and authoritative art-history reference work on artists. It is by no means limited to only the most famous artists: artists all over the globe and throughout the ages from antiquity to the present are recorded in this major encyclopedia. And it contains not only painters, sculptors, and architects, but gives equal weighting to sculptors in marble, restorers, and calligraphers, or craftsmen, to name but a few of the many hundreds of artistic professions found in the AKL.