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Collection Photo, Print, Drawing Exterior and interior views, architectural and sculptural details of churches in Southern Germany, ca. 1944

About this Item

Title

  • Exterior and interior views, architectural and sculptural details of churches in Southern Germany, ca. 1944

Summary

  • Black and white photographs show exterior views and details of interior decorations and sculpture of the Abbey church of Vierzehnheiligen in Upperfranconia. Also includes exterior views of the Abbey church of Ottobeuren in Southern Bavaria with interior views of its library, Kaisersaal and interior decoration. Also exterior views of the Tübinger Stift in Tübingen with an interior view of the chapel. Associated with the "Führerauftrag Monumentalmalerei," an official German project to photograph immovable works of art threatened by bombing during the war, 1943-45.

Names

  • Schmidt-Glassner, Helga, 1911-1998, photographer
  • Geiges, Leif, photographer
  • Wolff, Kurt, 1887-1963, DLC, collector
  • Führerauftrag Monumentalmalerei, associated name

Created / Published

  • ca. 1943-1945.

Headings

  • -  Evangelisches Stift in Tübingen (Germany)--1940-1950
  • -  Benediktiner-Abtei Ottobeuren--1940-1950
  • -  Basilika Vierzehnheiligen (Vierzehnheiligen, Germany)--1940-1950
  • -  Buildings--Germany, Southern--1940-1950
  • -  Churches--Germany, Southern--1940-1950
  • -  Interiors--Germany, Southern--1940-1950
  • -  Architectural elements--Germany, Southern--1940-1950
  • -  Sculpture--Germany--Ottobeuren--1940-1950

Format Headings

  • Photographic prints--1940-1950.

Genre

  • Photographic prints--1940-1950

Notes

  • -  Title devised by Library staff.
  • -  Ink stamps on back of prints identify 26 photographs by Helga Glassner of Stuttgart and 23 by Leif Geiges of Freiburg i.B.
  • -  Guide to the Special Collections of Prints & Photographs in the Library of Congress / compiled by Paul Vanderbilt. Washington, D.C. : 1955, no. 250
  • -  Purchased; Kurt Wolff; 1950.
  • -  Forms part of the Führer-Projekt collection (Library of Congress).

Medium

  • 49 photographic prints ; 23 x 17 cm. or slightly smaller.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 5334 (F) [P&P]

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2005695382

Rights Advisory

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Wolff, Kurt, Dlc, Collector, and Associated Name Führerauftrag Monumentalmalerei, Schmidt-Glassner, Helga, and Leif Geiges, photographer. Exterior and interior views, architectural and sculptural details of churches in Southern Germany. Ottobeuren Southern Germany Germany, ca. 1943. to 1945. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2005695382/.

APA citation style:

Wolff, K. & Führerauftrag Monumentalmalerei, A. N., Schmidt-Glassner, H. & Geiges, L., photographer. (ca. 1943) Exterior and interior views, architectural and sculptural details of churches in Southern Germany. Ottobeuren Southern Germany Germany, ca. 1943. to 1945. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2005695382/.

MLA citation style:

Wolff, Kurt, Dlc, Collector, and Associated Name Führerauftrag Monumentalmalerei, photographers by Schmidt-Glassner, Helga, and Leif Geiges. Exterior and interior views, architectural and sculptural details of churches in Southern Germany. to 1945. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2005695382/>.