Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin
1932
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 32.3 × 25.7 cm (12 11/16 × 10 1/8 in.) mount: 45.9 x 35.6 cm (18 1/16 x 14 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Marvin Breckinridge Patterson Fund for Photography
Accession Number
1998.5.1
Art Historical Context
In 1932, German photographer Lotte Jacobi captured the soaring spires of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in this striking gelatin silver print, now housed in the National Gallery of Art. Built between 1891 and 1895 to honor Germany's first emperor, Wilhelm I, the neo-Romanesque church stood as a symbol of imperial grandeur and national pride during the Weimar Republic. Jacobi, from a family of photographers and active in Berlin's vibrant artistic scene, documented the city's architecture with a keen eye for light and form, creating images that evoke both majesty and quiet introspection...