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Monograms have been used as signatures by artists and craft workers on paintings, sculptures and pieces of furniture, especially when guilds enforced measures against unauthorized participation in the trade. A famous example of a monogram serving as an artist's signature is the "AD" used by Albrecht Dürer.
Falk, Peter H. Dictionary of Signatures & Monograms of American Artists: From the Colonial Period to the Mid 20th Century. Madison, Conn: Sound View Press, 1988. Falk, Peter H, Audrey M. Lewis, Georgia Kuchen, and Veronika Roessler. Who Was Who in American Art, 1564–1975: 400 Years of Artists in America. Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1999.
The Benezit Dictionary of Artists (in French, Bénézit: Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs) is an extensive publication of bibliographical information on painters, sculptors, designers and engravers created primarily for art museums, auction houses, historians and dealers.
Dictionary of National Biography (Smith, Elder & Co., 1885–1901). Comprehensive biographical resource including British and Irish artists up to the year 1900 or so. Cyclopedia of painters and paintings, by J. D. Champlin & C. C. Perkins (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1913). Illustrated with b/w drawings of art, artists and their monograms:
The dictionary is still available in a standard hardcover edition, though the leather-bound version appears to be out of print. Various smaller specialized redactions have been published, such as The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, (Editor, Gordon Campbell, OUP 2006, ISBN 0195189485), The Grove Dictionary of Materials and Techniques in Art (OUP 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-531391-8), From David ...
Steinfeld, Cecilia; William H. Goetzmann (Intro), Art for History's Sake The Texas Collection of the Witte Museum 1993; Falk, Peter Hastings, Dictionary of Signatures & Monograms, 1988; Zellman, Michael David, 300 Years of American Art, (two volumes), 1986; Dawdy, Doris, Artists of the American West:A Biographical Dictionary (3 volumes), 1985
As a graphic artist, Pfisterer made art calendars (Greifenstein calendar, Wetterau-calendar, Brühl-Edition). He worked for banks, Lufthansa, Steigenberger Frankfurter Hof, Hotel Jäger, and Karstadt. He was an art editor for Walter De Gruyter, Scientific Edition. He wrote the Dictionary of Monograms 2 (1995) and Dictionary of Signatures (1999 ...
Art Signature Dictionary – signatures and monograms 20 examples of genuine signatures and monograms by John Bauer. John Bauer Museum Archived 2005-10-28 at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish) Pictures by John Bauer at Project Runeberg (in Swedish) 11 Illustrations from Die Göttersage der Väter (1911)