The Image Archive collects and indexes image sources relating to the region of East Central Europe and makes these available to researchers and the interested public. The archive contains all kinds photography, postcards, as well as artwork and drawings from the 16th century to the present day. The holdings of the Image Archive can be divided into four categories according to their provenance: some have been passed down from institutions (archives, monument preservation organizations), others from photographers or companies (agencies, publishing houses); some material has also been obtained from researchers (working in the areas of architecture, history, art history, urban planning) and some has come from private collections. In terms of its thematic scope, the graphic material encompasses the documentation of urban and rural settlements, (cultural) landscapes and both secular and religious buildings, along with their fixtures and features. Furthermore, there are images of historical and festive occasions, but also pictures documenting everyday life as well as portraits of personalities. The image sources complement the holdings of the map and document collections, offering access to knowledge about East Central Europe, both as it was and is today, from a range of different angles.
Materials
Research online
Descriptions of superordinate collections
Descriptions of subordinate collections
Visit
Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz AssociationISIL: DE-2718
Gisonenweg 5-735037 Marburg
Website
Referenced/represented regions
AustriaBelarusCzech RepublicCzechoslovakiaEstoniaGermanyHungaryItalyKaliningrad OblastKönigsbergLatviaLithuaniaPolandRomaniaRussiaSlovakiaUkraineYugoslavia...Topics
ArchitectureArt decoArt nouveauArt, GothicCity planningCivilization, BaroqueClassicismContemporary historyContemporary, TheCultural landscapesCultureEveryday lifeHistorical eventHistoricismHistory, ModernMiddle AgesModernismMonument protectionPaintingPhoto documentationPolitical iconographyPropagandaRenaissanceRomanticismSocialist realismWorld War, 1914-1918World War, 1939-1945...Referenced/represented time period
16th century until todayClassification
Architecture historyArt History and Art ScienceCulture historyIndustrial history, trade and commerceMicro, local or everyday historyMilitary history and history of violenceNationalism History / NationalizationRegional and country historySocial history and social sciencesTraffic history and infrastructure historyUrban and metropolitan history...Languages
CzechEstonianGermanHungarianLatvianLithuanianPolishSlovakUkrainian...In January 1951, the Herder Institute’s image archive recorded its first acquisitions. Since that time, it has been collecting historical as well as contemporary pictorial materials (with the exception of paintings) relating to the countries of East Central Europe. Additions of particular note included parts of the image and plan archives of the last provincial conservator of Lower Silesia, Günter Grundmann, the picture stocks of the two Gdansk-based monument preservationists Willi Drost and Erich Vollmar (which were incorporated into the Erich Keyser collection), and the photo inventory of the architect and architectural historian Paul Campe, who originally came from Latvia. Other significant acquisitions have included the pictorial documentation of the Baltic manor houses that belonged to the former livestock inspector Baron Friedrich von Wolff-Lettien as well as the purchase of the photographic estate of Stefan Arczynski, one of the most important Polish photographers of the second half of the 20th century.
Creation/Production
| Time Event: | 16th century until today |
| Place/Area: | Poland Germany Czechoslovakia Baltic States East Prussia Latvia Hungary Romania Königsberg Gdańsk West Prussia Poznań Estonia Wrocław Kaliningrad Czechoslovakia Estonia Latvia Lithuania Czechoslovakia |
| Photographer: | Arczyński, Stefan + |
| Photographer: | Beyerlein, Hermann + |
| Creator of the collection: | Ballestrem (Count's family) + |
| Creator of the collection: | Boeckler, Erich + |
| Photographer: | Brodt, Hans |
| Photographer: | Campe, Paul + |
| Photographer: | Custodis, August + |
| Photographer: | Clasen, Karl-Heinz + |
| Photographer: | Drost, Willi + |
| Publisher: | Duncker, Alexander + |
| Photographer: | Fischer, Erich |
| Photographer: | Flessing, Hans-Joachim |
| Photographer: | Grundmann, Guenther + |
| Photographer: | Heinke, Artur + |
| Photographer: | Hintzer, Karl + |
| Photographer: | Jagusch, Rudolf |
| Photographer: | Masnovskis, Vitolds + |
| Photographer: | Orth, Hans Joachim + |
| Photographer: | Purvinas, Martynas + |
| Photographer: | Poklekowski, Paul + |
| Photographer: | Simonsen, Julius + |
| Photographer: | Schekanski, Wolfgang + |
| Photographer: | Schumacher, Haro + |
| Photographer: | Stewner, Ernst + |
| Photographer: | Vossbeck, Thomas + |
| Photographer: | Treichel, Alexander + |
| Photographer: | Wiemers, Franz + |
| Photographer: | Wolf-Lettien, Friedrich Baron von + |
Aggregation/Collecting
| Time Event: | 1951 until today |
| Place/Area: | Marburg |
| Creator of the collection: | Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe - Scientific collections, Image Archive |
Literature
DIETMAR POPP: Das Baltikum als Sammlungsschwerpunkt : Baltica im Bildarchiv 2014. [PPN: 442248903]
HeBIS Discovery System (HDS)
DIETMAR POPP: Schlösser und Gärten Schlesiens in Bildmaterialien des Herder-Instituts : visuelle Quellen fur Rekonstruktion und Revitalisierung am Beispiel von Schloss Fiirstenstein und verwandten Objekten 2017. [PPN: 443000212]
HeBIS Discovery System (HDS)
DIETMAR POPP CHRISTIAN LOTZ: Potenziale für neue Forschungen zur Geschichte und Kultur Schlesiens : Perspektiven aus den Wissenschaftlichen Sammlungen des Herder-Instituts fur historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung 2016. [PPN: 442303386]
HeBIS Discovery System (HDS)
ERNST STEWNER: Ein deutscher Fotograf in Polen : Niemiecki fotograf Polski: PIOTR KORDUBA, DIETMAR POPP (Hrsg.): Marburg 2015 (Materialien zur Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte Ostmitteleuropas). [PPN: 356902471]
OPAC
HeBIS Discovery System (HDS)
RAFAŁ EYSYMONTT, DIETMAR POPP, STANISŁAW KLIMEK (Hrsg.): Städte Niederschlesiens im Luftbild , Wrocław [2018?]. [PPN: 430477821]
OPAC
HeBIS Discovery System (HDS)
OTTO ROLLENHAGEN, EWA BARYLEWSKA-SZYMÁNSKA (Hrsg.): Untersuchung und Beschreibung der Danziger Bürgerhäuser : mit besonderer Darstellung der Bauten aus der Zeit der Gotik bis zur Spätrenaissance, Marburg 2008. [PPN: 202656470]
OPAC
HeBIS Discovery System (HDS)
Virtuelle Ausstellungen
100 Years – 100 Pictures – Stefan Arczyński Website
Projekte
Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland: Lesser Poland Website
Upper Silesia from the air Website
Scientific infrastructure for art-historical monuments in East Central Europe / Forschungsinfrastruktur Kunstdenkmäler in Ostmitteleuropa (FoKO) Website
DigiPortA – The digitalization and indexing of pictorial materials in the archives of the Leibniz Association Website
Digital 3D Reconstructions in Virtual Research Environments Website
Digitization and documentation of the Lower Silesian image archive (NBA) Website
Visual History. Institutions and Media of Visual Memory, Subproject Herder Institute: The Historical Image Archive in the Digital Age: Tradition, Collection and Digital Re-Contextualization Website
Links
Description of selected holdings of the Image Archive Website
| ID: | DE-2718/HI000004 |
| Record Type: | Group/Holding |
| List title: | Holdings of the Image Archive |
| Title: | Holdings of the Image Archive of the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe |
| Short Title: | Holdings of the Image Archive |
| Repository Name: | Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Image archive [ISIL: DE-2310] + |
| Source/Rights: | Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association [ISIL: DE-2718] + |
| Image: | Lightbox with slides from the holdings of the Image Archive, Photograph: Claudia Junghänel, 2015, Image Archive, Inventory number: _91A2979, Rights of use: Herder Institute, Marburg |
| Author: | Gorol, Christina |
| Author: | Popp, Dietmar |
| Author: | Bergholde-Wolf, Agnese |
| Reviser/Editor: | Weiss, Sebastian |
| Export date: | 2019-03-05 |
