This publication describes a concept for the design of an information system of aesthetics and art based on a system of object-oriented databases with a World Wide Web (WWW) interface for access. At first, this information system was developed for the Art of Cubism, so confined to a rather limited subject. The prototype was implemented within the research project PRISMA (Picture Retrieval and Information System for Modern Arts) at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz because a suitable system of distributed object-oriented databases with a WWW interface was made available there. The purpose of the prototype implementation of the information system is to provide a retrieval tool for aesthetics, allowing a direct access to very different types of data (for example pictures, movies, text files). The user interaction is farmost independent from hard- and software by using just common WWW-browsers. In addition, the structure of the system allows an arbitrary scalability and basically the connection to any number of databases. Besides, an investigation was performed whether the system is useful as a retrieval and information system as well as a documentation tool for educational tasks at universities and as an application to computer based lessons of different disciplines at school and in adult education.