Pan (magazine)

PAN is the most important organ of Jugendstil in Germany. The magazine printed many designed by well-known, but also of yet unknown young artists illustrations. There were also full-page Original graphics, a simple, modern typography, as well as vignettes and other decorative elements. Among the most famous artists, published in the PAN, were Franz von Stuck, who contributed the image for the title page of the first edition, Félix Vallotton, whose woodcuts were known through publications in the PAN only to a wider public, as well as Thomas Theodor Heine. Other important visual artists of the PAN were Henry van de Velde, Ludwig von Hofmann, Max Liebermann, Otto Eckmann, Hans Baluschek and Walter Leistikov.

Literary found in the journal PAN stories and poems that are associated with the symbolism, naturalism, and impressionism, but in addition also many works that can be assigned to any era term. The magazine represented the beginnings of literary modernism in all its diversity as well as in their inconsistency. Among the most important authors included not only Otto Julius Bierbaum, Max Dauthendey, Richard Dehmel and Arno Holz.

1910, the literary journal PAN was re-established as a semi- monthly under the direction of the Berlin art dealer and publisher Paul Cassirer. The sole editor was from 1912 Alfred Kerr, between 1913 and the final adjustment in 1915 appeared the magazine PAN only irregularly.