Pan

This short-lived journal carried many avant-garde writings, poems, and paintings. The art critic Julius Meier-Graefe, who had done much to secure funding and royal patronage, was its first editor. However, within months of the first issue he was dismissed, marking the internal wrangling with which Pan was beset during its brief existence. It carried articles by contemporary and highly influential figures in art and design such as the designer Henry van de Velde and the philosopher Nietzsche. After its demise in 1900, Pan's graphic work was purchased by Hamburg Museum alongside other Art Nouveau materials, including artefacts from the Paris Exposition of 1900.

Pan, a literary periodical founded in 1895 in Berlin by O. J. Bierbaum and others and from Heft 3 (1895) edited by Cäsar Flaischlen. It ceased to appear in 1900. A second periodical entitled Pan appeared from 1910 to 1914; it was run by A. Kerr and notably promoted avant-garde literature. (Kerr was its editor from 1912.)

'Cover by Joseph Sattler for 1895/96 issue

Pan was an arts and literary magazine, published from 1895 to 1900 in Berlin by Julius Otto Bierbaum and Julius Meier-Graefe. The magazine was revived by Paul Cassirer in 1910, published by his Pan-Presse.

Pan played an important role in the development of Art Nouveau in Germany. The magazine printed a number of illustrations by both well-known and unknown young artists. Among the best-known artists who contributed to the periodical were Franz von Stuck, Felix Vallotton, and Thomas Theodor Heine.

Pan also printed stories and poems, in the emerging Symbolist and Naturalist movements; authors published included Otto Julius Bierbaum, Max Dauthendey , Richard Dehmel and Arno Holz.

Under Cassirer contributors included Frank Wedekind, Georg Heym, Ernst Barlach, and Franz Marc. Alfred Kerr took over the publication of the magazine in 1912 and it appeared only sporadically until its demise in 1915.

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