Façade Alsacienne, Corps de Garde à Colmar
Medium
mammoth untrimmed carbon print
Dimensions
image: 43.8 × 37.5 cm · paper: 46.7 × 40.1 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg
Accession Number
2021.63
Tags
male
About this artwork
This German Renaissance structure was built in 1575 to be the town hall of Colmar but ended up becoming a guard house. Adolph Braun lived in another town in the same province, Alsace, and produced an extensive series of views of monuments and landscapes of the region. He marketed the images not just locally but throughout Europe and North America.