Deutsche Fotothek

The German photo library with more than three million image documents is a universal archive of art and cultural history in the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden ( SLUB ). She specializes in art, architecture and music history, the regional customer Saxony, geography as well as the technical and economic history.

With the " Archives of photographers " SLUB offers in the Deutsche Fotothek a virtual showcase for the works of major German or working in Germany photographers. In addition to own recordings comes a lot of the stocks from the collections of institutions, companies and especially from estates, for example, by Hermann Krone, Christian Borchert, Fritz Eschen, Walter Hahn, Konrad Helbig, Erich Höhne, Erich Pohl, Richard Peter, Abraham Pisarek Roger Rössing and Charles Wilp.

History

Has its origins in the German photo library " Saxon State Image ," which was established in 1924. In 1925, a photo archive, photographic State Archive, founded. In 1944, the inventory of the archive of 47,000 negatives and 65,000 slides was. Housed the Landesbildstelle was in the circus road 40 In the air raids on Dresden in February 1945 it was razed to the outsourced resources.

In the summer of 1946 we opened them on the Ehrlich Straße 1 again. As of 1951, the photo library was housed in the reconstructed Saxon House of the Estates. In the same year, the country's image archive has been assigned as " Landesfotothek " the State Office of folklore and historic preservation. 1952, presented to the photo library as "State Fotothek Dresden " the State Commission on Arts. In 1956 the Ministry of Culture of the photo library was a " German Fotothek Dresden - Central Institute for Cultural Studies image documents " its own statutes. In 1961 she became affiliated with the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek Berlin. Since 1983 it belongs as a separate department for the Saxon State Library State and University Library. Since 1964, the German photo library managed the entire Art Archives of the Academy of Arts of the GDR.

Inventory and usage

The German Photo Library has more than 3.2 million photo documents. Currently, about 1.514 million images from 66 institutions can be researched online (as of December 10, 2013 ).