10.34934/DVN/D0Z6I2 Lemmers, Frederic0009-0005-7394-0567(KBR)Ott, Morgane0009-0008-7270-6244(KBR)Hermans, Sébastien0000-0001-6620-1890(KBR) Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA 2026 This dataset contains the files related to a survey investigating the fine arts in seventeen titles of Belgian family magazines between 1929 and 1936 (FR/NL). The survey took place within the framework of the Artpresse project (2020-2025), which aimed at digitizing and studying a corpus of interwar mass-market periodicals from the perspective of their cultural content, leveraging the periodical collections and digital tools of the KBR. Funded by the Federal Science Policy of Belgium (BELSPO) through its BRAIN-be 2.0 program, Artpresse is a research and digitization project led by the Digitization Department of the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) in collaboration with the Department of Literary Theory and Cultural Studies of the University of Leuven and the Service d'Histoire de l'Art de l'Époque contemporaine of the University of Liège. Focusing on the fine arts scene in Belgium from the 1929 stock market crash to 1936, this survey captures a critical selection of content drawn from magazine titles representative of the ideological and technological trends of Belgium’s interwar illustrated press. From the broader Artpresse corpus (comprising over 700,000 digitized pages on the Belgica Periodicals portal), a specific sub-corpus of 150,592 pages across 4,369 issues was selected for analysis. Within this scope, the dataset comprises 1,542 items identified or interpreted as fine arts content. This structure links specific editorial units with the individual figures identified within them, enabling the systematic documentation of 1,217 distinct artists. The dataset also serves as the foundation for an illustrated and indexed catalog, integrating image files and transcriptions as the primary material for an art historical doctoral research on the representation of arts in a large digitized corpus of illustrated press. Lemmers, Frederic(KBR)