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Benjamin Katz: Berlin Havelhoehe 1960

Hardback

Main Details

Title Benjamin Katz: Berlin Havelhoehe 1960
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Barbara Engelbach
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:160
Dimensions(mm): Height 240,Width 170
Category/GenreArt and design styles - from c 1900 to now
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9783777432878
ClassificationsDewey:759.3
Audience
General
Illustrations 78 Illustrations, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Hirmer Verlag
Imprint Hirmer Verlag
Publication Date 25 July 2019
Publication Country Germany

Description

In the 1950s the hospital Berlin-Havelhoehe (today the Clinic for Anthropo-sophical Medicine) took over the building that had originally been erected as the National Socialist State Academy for Aviation. It was also there that the pilots who had attacked Guernica in 1934 as part of the Condor Legion had been trained. In 1960, Benjamin Katz fell ill with tuberculosis for a period of one and a half years. He stayed in Havelhoehe and produced an extensive collection of photographs during this time. 48 enlargements together with 380 working prints from the negatives on 30 facsimiled DIN-A4 pages document on the one hand the everyday routine as a patient, but also the architecture and the traces of National Socialism.

Author Biography

Barbara Engelbach is curator and head of the collection of contemporary art, photography, and media art at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany.