China The Great Wall At Nankou Pass Gate Vintage Coll. E. BOERSCHMANN 1916
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China The Great Wall of China at Nankou Pass, gate
photo by E. Herold1916
From the former collection of
Ernst Boerschmann (18 February 1873 - 30 April 1949) Ernst Boerschmann was a German architect, photographer and sinologist. Born in Priekulė, Lithuania, Klaipėda Region, Lithuania. His brother Friedrich Börschmann (1870-1841) was a physician and social democratic members. Boerschmann attended the Humanistische Gymnasiu...m in Memel. He entered the Technical University of Berlin in 1891, majoring in architecture, where he graduated in 1896. After college, he joined the Staatsexamen and graduated in 1901 as an assessor in the Prussian building administration.
From 1902 to 1904, he was an engineer on Ostasiatischen Besatzungsbrigade (Occupation brigade) in China. Here became interested in classical Chinese architecture.In 1906, Boerschmann began his first expedition with the financial support of the German Empire. With the status of a scientific adviser to the German legation, he traveled to fourteen of the eighteen ancient Chinese provinces.On this trip he recorded many Buddhist pagodas with cameras and drawings, which formed the material for his later publications.
In Berlin, where he had been working since 1921, he had been teaching at the Technical University of Charlottenburg since 1925; here he received 1927 the title of a professor.
From 1933 to 1937, Boerschmann started his third trip to China. On this trip, he brought in many documents, photos, building plans and inscriptions.He photographed himself and bought vintage photographs from other photographers.
He returned to Germany in 1940 and became a lecturer at the Humboldt University of Berlin on Chinese architecture. In 1943, his apartment was destroyed by wars.
Boerschmann dies 1949. Some years ago the heirs could not keep the photoarchive together.A large part is now in the collection of Kunstbibliothek Berlin, which madean exhibition in 2012.
Dr. Edward Koegel, the expert on Boerschmann, published 2015 a scientific examination of the great importance of Boerschmann, a major book with 592 pages:The Grand Documentation: Ernst Boerschmann and Chinese Religious Architecture (1906–1931)
Boerschmann himself published several books on Chinese traditional architecture:Ernst Boerschmann: Chinesische Architektur. 2 Bände, Berlin, 1925. Wasmuth Verlagrnst Boerschmann: Baukunst und Landschaft in China. Eine Reise durch zwölf ProvinzBerlin, 1926. Wasmuth Verlag
ca. 5.6 x 3.4 inchesvery good condition, mint
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