Pressehaus Drahtverband, Düsseldorf, Seitliche Ansicht von der Straße, Architekt Bernhard Pfau

Wire Association Public Relations Building, Street Front from a Side View, Düsseldorf, Architect Bernhard Pfau, ca. 1938

ArtistHugo Schmölz, Sonthofen 1879–1938 Köln

Gelatin silver print

State/print versionprinted ca. 1938

Image dimensions22,6 x 14,8 cm

Status

on display, room 025

About the workHugo Schmölz was a leading architectural photographer in the 1920s and 1930s. Even during the National Socialist era, he documented historical and contemporary buildings throughout the country on behalf of the manufacturing and construction industries. Early in his career he developed an exposure technique for taking detailed photographs of dark interiors. In these views of a building by the Düsseldorf architect Bernhard Pfau, Schmölz highlighted the characteristics of the architecture of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), which contrasts interestingly with the portrait of Adolf Hitler.

AccessionAcquisition 2019

Provenance[...]; 2019 acquired by Kicken Berlin

Inventory numberF.2019.1603

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

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