Johannes Felbermeyer

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Johannes Felbermeyer (born January 7, 1903 in Munich , † February 17, 1988 in Rome ) was a German photographer.

Life

Hannes Felbermeyer, the son of Josef and Christiane Katharina Felbermeyer, born. Gross, attended the teaching and research institute for photography in Munich from 1926 to 1928 .

From 1929 he worked as an institute photographer at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome . The stock of the photo library of 16,000 negatives and 77,000 prints in 1932 almost doubled by 1940/41. Photographs of the Campo Santo in Pisa in 1934, of the Arch of Constantine in Rome in 1935, the Arch of Augustus in Rimini in 1938, from the Museum of San Vitale in Ravenna in 1939 and a bronze from 1941 at an antique dealer in Rome could be assigned to him on the basis of dated negative numbers. In the winter of 1943 - before the Allies landed in Sicily - he photographed an ancient mint in the collection of Baron Agostino Pennisi di Floristella . Its castle near Acireale served as a German base and radio station for the connection to Africa. According to the entries in the inventory book, photographs were taken in Pompeii on March 26, 1943 . The negative formats of 9 × 12 cm, 13 × 18 cm or on 35mm film were precisely noted in volume 34 on page 51.

After the Second World War, Felbermeyer took part in the photographic documentation of stolen, recovered and recovered works of art at the Munich Central Collecting Point . His material recordings formed the basis for the art-historical determination and lawful return of an abundance of valuable art treasures. Between 1945 and 1949 he left behind a collection of 900 enlargements and 214 negatives that were digitized by the Getty Center's research department . This "photo library" systematically recorded the cultural assets that were abducted and recorded the practical procedure in this early provenance research . In a photo album on leaving Edwin C. Rae , he documented this work in detail in numerous pictures.

Then he turned back to archaeological photography. He traveled to Pompeii, Herculaneum , Volterra , Tarquinia , Sperlonga and Chiusi to create images for scientific publications for the American Academy in the Villa Aurelia on the Roman hill Gianicolo . With a large format camera , he documented inscriptions on buildings and coins, Greek, Roman and Etruscan sculptures, mosaics , and sarcophagi on the Roman Forum , the Palatine Hill and in Ostia . His work at that time comprised 83 archive boxes with 10,500 black and white photos and 25,000 negatives.

Felbermeyer was buried under a travertine block on the "Cimitero Acattolico per gli stranieri", the Protestant cemetery in Rome.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.arthistoricum.net/themen/themenportale/photographie/recherche/fotoschule/schueler/list/Schueler/F/  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.arthistoricum.net  
  2. ↑ http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/fotothek/rom/page/geschichte
  3. ↑ http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cat552986
  4. ↑ http://archives.getty.edu/R/-?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=5554293¤t_base=GEN01  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Getty Research Institute Digital Collections@1@ 2Template: dead link / archives.getty.edu  
  5. ↑ Archives Library Illinois (PDF; 6.2 MB)
  6. ↑ http://archive.org/stream/memoirsofamerica21ameruoft#page/171/mode/1up Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Vol. 21, 1953, p. 127, footnote 2
  7. ↑ http://www.cemeteryrome.it/infopoint/Risultati.asp?Tipo=2#
personal data
SURNAME Felbermeyer, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1988
Place of death Rome