The focus on the face had another dimension. Photographers on the left and right of the political spectrum of the Weimar Republic attempted to classify and order the social world via the face. Individual expression was replaced by ethnic groups or professions. Erich Retzlaff’s popular illustrated books are representative of this. In the 1930s, he […]
KAESTNER – CARICATURES, Carl Friedrich Gauß, around 1795–1798, ink drawing on paper, State and University Library of Göttingen
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CARICATURE OF CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS, Friedrich Eduard Ritmüller, date unknown,Ink drawing over pencil drawing on paper, Art Collection of the University of Göttingen
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CARICATURE OF CARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH OESTERLEY, Friedrich Eduard Ritmüller, date unknown, ink drawing over pencil drawing on paper, Art Collection of the University of Göttingen
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CARICATURE OF FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPH DAHLMANN, Friedrich Eduard Ritmüller, date unknown, ink drawing over pencil drawing on paper, Art Collection of the University of Göttingen
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BUST OF DAVID HILBERT (1862–1943), Professor of Mathematicscast according to the original by Peter Kirchhoff (1928), 1986, plaster, since the damage in 2009 stored in the restoration workshop of the Archaeological Institute.
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BUST OF D. WIESE, date unknown, plaster, Art Collection of the University of Göttingen
When you’re looking at this photograph, can you account for the other people who were involved in the production of the flow channel without whom Ludwig Prandtl, Head of the Aerodynamic Research Station Göttingen, would not have become the “father of flow research”? LUDWIG PRANDTL (1875–1953), 1930s, photograph (reproduction), City Museum Göttingen
THE GÖTTINGEN CHEMIST RICHARD ZSIGMONDY (1865-1929) WITH HIS SPANISH COLLEAGUE ANTONIO DE GREGORIO ROCASOLANO (1873-1941), working with the immersion ultramicroscope, developed by Zsigmondy and the Göttingen company Winkel,, circa 1920, Photograph (reproduction), Museum of Göttingen Chemistry, University of Göttingen
DOUBLE PORTRAIT OF MARGARETHE HERTER AND HER HUSBAND KONRAD HERTER, At the time of the photograph, Konrad Herter was an Assistant at the Zoological Institute of the University of Göttingen 1922, Photograph (Reproduction), Portrait collection of the German Museum Munich
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