The Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (AKL) presents in each volume around 1.000 biographies of artists from all over the globe and throughout the ages from antiquity to the present. In contains not only painters, sculptors, and graphic designers but gives equal weight to architects, desginers, photographers, video and performance artists. Volume 79 contains, inter alia, entries on Joseph Anton Koch, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, Rem Koolhaas, Jeff Koons, Jannis Kounellis, Alfred Kubin und Kisho Kurokawa.