Photo archive Photo Marburg

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Location of the picture archive in the art building of the Philipps University of Marburg (formerly Ernst-von-Hülsen-Haus)

The German Documentation Center for Art History - Photo Archive Photo Marburg is one of the largest photo archives for European art and architecture worldwide with around 2 million original photographs. Today the picture archive and research institute belongs to the Philipps University of Marburg .

tasks

The Bildarchiv Foto Marburg fulfills supraregional tasks in its core area by documenting works of European art and architecture , especially those that have been changed or destroyed over time or are threatened in their preservation. With its services and products, the picture archive guarantees the cultural transmission of the objects, which are inalienable components of the cultural heritage due to their high monument value .

In addition to processing its own archive holdings and current new recordings from photo campaigns, Foto Marburg works on the scientific documentation of Western art and architecture as well as their publication on microfiche and on the Internet. By establishing cooperative structures, Foto Marburg supports the documentation work at museums , archives , monument offices , universities and libraries .

Around 3 million photographs of around 1.8 works of art and buildings in Germany and Europe can be researched free of charge on the Internet in the network database Image Index of Art and Architecture operated by the Photo Archive Photo Marburg , especially for research and teaching . In addition to the company's own holdings, around 1.7 million photographs from around 50 partner institutions are available online. Of these, 1.4 million photographs from 15 different institutions were published on microfiche by the Photo Marburg picture archive between 1977 and 2008 as “Marburg Index - Inventory of Art in Germany”. Digital reproductions of these microfiche recordings and a further 300,000 pictures from microfiche publications on art and architecture in Egypt , Armenia , Belgium , the Netherlands , France , Greece , Italy , Austria , Portugal , Spain and Switzerland now form the basis of the image database Imageindex .

Further tasks in the field of cultural-scientific documentation include the sponsorship and technical operation of the German manuscript forum Manuscripta Mediaevalia , the graphics portal and the preparation of a digital, database-supported edition of the Handbook of German Art Monuments (Dehio).

Research with your own professorship is another focus of the institute. The scientists devote themselves to the individual holdings of the picture archive and research the history, practice and theory of the transmission of visual cultural assets. The image archive presents results in publications and projects such as exhibitions or conferences and promotes scientific exchange.

Stocks

The rich collection of the Photo Archive Photo Marburg includes photographs from the 1870s to the present day. Around 2 million original recordings are stored as glass plate negatives, flat films of any format, as small picture negatives, slides and as digital image files. The holdings are publicly accessible in the picture index of art and architecture (see web links ).

The focus of the collection activities are art and architecture in Germany. In addition, the focus of the collection is on the classic art landscapes of France, Italy, Spain, Greece and Egypt. Numerous special collections enrich the collection with valuable documents, e.g. B. to the Baltic States, the Czech Republic or Armenia, with their works of art that are often threatened with decay or destruction.

Foto Marburg has continuously expanded its holdings since it was founded. By taking over archives and collections from well-known photographers, new historical photographs are constantly being added to the inventory. In the 1970s z. For example, the extensive Franz Stoedtner archive or photos by the photographer Walter Hege can be taken over.

Photographs, in particular of difficult to access and endangered cultural assets, are regularly made for the image archive through targeted photo campaigns at home and abroad by external or in-house photographers.

history

In 1913 Richard Hamann , who was appointed professor of art history in Marburg, founded the image archive under the name "Photographischer Apparat" as a teaching and research collection for the art history seminar. Together with this institute, the picture archive was housed in the so-called anniversary building, a building that was inaugurated on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Philipps University in 1927. As an art historian and experienced photographer, Hamann was systematically and enthusiastically expanding the image archive, so that in 1929 the Prussian state established it as the central archive for art documentation. In 1962 the picture archive was incorporated into the Philipps University of Marburg.

Together with the Rheinisches Bildarchiv , Foto Marburg conceived a microfiche edition from 1975, the “Marburg Index - Inventory of Art in Germany”, which was published from 1977 as a sequel with numerous partners and other foreign indices. In 1978 and 1985, a set of rules for computer-aided documentation of art and architecture, the “Marburg Information, Documentation and Administration System (MIDAS)” and the HiDA database system, were developed for the professional recording of the holdings.

Right next to the new German Language Atlas on the edge of the Old Botanical Garden , a new research building is to be built for 18.7 million euros by 2020.

meaning

The documentary photographs stored in the picture archive according to the most modern conservation standards and thus carriers of tradition are, as a collection ensemble, in turn cultural assets of international standing. Many of the works of art and buildings documented in the Photo Archive Photo Marburg have been changed over time, are now destroyed, decayed or their preservation is threatened. Documentary photographs of works of art in private ownership whose current storage location is unknown or which are no longer accessible can also be found in the archive as original recordings. With its photographic collection and services, the facility guarantees the cultural transmission of such works of art and architecture, which are inalienable components of the cultural heritage due to their high monument value. Almost the entire list of European cultural monuments on the UNESCO World Heritage List is covered in the Foto Marburg collection. The photographic images as the carriers of tradition of these cultural monuments in a historical, partly still intact condition are indispensable for research or monument preservation .

For the backup and digital publication of the historical “ color slide archive for wall and ceiling painting ”, the archive received the main prize worth 10,000 euros for special achievements in the category “preservation of works of art and collections” from the Europa Nostra organization.

Cooperations

The Bildarchiv Foto Marburg is a cooperation partner in several research and development projects. The manuscript portal Manuscripta Mediaevalia for the indexing and web-based publication of medieval manuscripts, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), is technically supported from here. Documentary indexing data and images from over 50 cultural and research institutions have been brought together in the Image Index of Art and Architecture in a network database since 1999 and made publicly available on the Internet. From 2009 to 2014 the digital portrait index , a digital research data infrastructure for the indexing, digitization and publication of early modern prints , was developed as a DFG project with partners from libraries and museums under the leadership of the Photo Archive Photo Marburg and has been continued in-house since 2014. Another research data infrastructure is the graphics portal , an online network database for graphic collections. Here you can find more than 300,000 drawings, watercolors, woodcuts, copperplate engravings and etchings from around 25 collections. Since the publication of the graphics portal in November 2017, renowned European collections have been represented, including the copper engraving cabinets of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Prussischer Kulturbesitz, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden or the Hamburger Kunsthalle. The Albertina and the collection of the Museum of Applied Art in Vienna, the graphic collections of the ETH Zurich and the Central Library of Zurich or the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome are also represented. The collections of the Virtual Kupferstichkabinett , a cooperation between the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum Braunschweig and the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel have also been integrated.

literature

  • Jens Bove / Lutz Heusinger / Angela Kailus: Marburg information, documentation and administration system (MIDAS). Manual and CD. Munich 2001.
  • Christian Bracht: Photo Marburg. A classic image archive and the digital world of images. In: Irene Ziehe / Ulrich Hägele (ed.): Digital photography. Cultural practices of a new medium. Visual culture. Studies and materials, Vol. 4. Münster 2009, pp. 157–166.
  • Christian Bracht: Photo Archive Photo Marburg - German Documentation Center for Art History. In: Rundbrief Fotografie 14, 2007, no. 1, pp. 15-19.
  • Lutz Heusinger: Two Union Catalogs of Art, Architecture and Medieval Manucripts in Germany. In: Klaus Dieter Lehmann (Ed.): Digital Resources from Cultural Institutions for Use in Teaching and Learning. A Report of the American / German Workshop The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation / Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Munich 2004, pp. 75–86.
  • Jost Hermand: The art historian Richard Hamann. A political biography (1879–1961). Cologne 2009.
  • Hans-Joachim Kunst among other things: The history of the art history seminar 1933–1945. In: Burghard Dedner et al. (Ed.): German and art studies in the “Third Reich”. Marburg Developments 1920–1950 (Academia Marburgensis Vol. 10). Munich 2005, pp. 27-82.
  • Fritz Laupichler: The Photo Archive Photo Marburg. From the “Photographic Society” to the German Documentation Center for Art History , Marburg: Tectum 2015.
  • Angela Matyssek: Art History as a Photographic Practice. Richard Hamann and Photo Marburg (= humboldt writings on art and visual history; VII), Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag 2009.
  • Angela Matyssek: No singular. Photography and overview. In: Paths to Modernity. Richard Hamann as a collector. Ed. from the Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Philipps University of Marburg. Munich 2009, pp. 190–215.
  • Angela Matyssek: Limits of the Photographic Document. In: Carqué, Bernd; Mondini, Daniela; Noell, Matthias (Ed.): Visualization and Imagination. Material relics of the Middle Ages in pictorial representations of the modern age. Göttingen 2006 (= Göttingen Talks on History 25), pp. 599–643.
  • Angela Matyssek: Photography is seeing. Art historical research and image practice with Richard Hamann and Photo Marburg. In: Photo History 97, May 2005, pp. 69–79
  • Michael H. Sprenger: The Art History Seminar and the Prussian Research Institute of the University of Marburg in National Socialism. In: Nikola Doll / Christian Fuhrmeister / Michael H. Sprenger (eds.): Art history in National Socialism. Contributions to the history of a science between 1930 and 1950. Weimar 2005, pp. 71–84.
  • Michael Sprenger: Richard Hamann and the Marburg art history between 1933 and 1945. In: Art and Politics. Yearbook of the Guernica Society 5, 2003, pp. 61–92.
  • Judith Tralles: The photo campaigns of the Prussian Research Institute for Art History Marburg during the Second World War. In: Nikola Doll / Christian Fuhrmeister / Michael H. Sprenger (eds.): Art history in National Socialism. Contributions to the history of a science between 1930 and 1950. Weimar 2005, pp. 263–282.
  • Science between East and West. The art historian Richard Hamann as a border crosser. Edited by Ruth Heftrig and Bernd Reifenberg. Marburg 2009.
  • Brigitte Walbe: The Photo Archive Photo Marburg in the Art History Institute of the Philipps University of Marburg and the recording of architectural monuments in the former GDR. In: Photo History, Vol. 14, H. 53, 1994, pp. 47-54.

Web links

Commons : Ernst-von-Hülsen-Haus  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Bildarchiv Foto Marburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Hitzeroth: A second research building is being built. (No longer available online.) In: Oberhessische Presse . April 27, 2015, archived from the original on November 27, 2017 ; accessed on November 20, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Dr. Viola Düwert: Bildarchiv Foto Marburg and Central Institute for Art History receive the EUROPA NOSTRA Prize. In: Information Service Science . May 7, 2007, accessed May 11, 2007 .