View of the principal façade of the Alte Oper [Old Opera] (also known as Das Opernhaus [The Opera House]), Opernplatz, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

People:

C. Hertel (photographer)
Eduard Giesenberg (architect)
Albrecht Becker (designer)
Richard Lucae (architect)

Title:

View of the principal façade of the Alte Oper [Old Opera] (also known as Das Opernhaus [The Opera House]), Opernplatz, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Date:

between 1884 and 1886

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 9.6 x 14.9 cm sheet: 10.0 x 14.9 cm

Reference number:

PH1984:1179

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

stamped - in typescript and blue ink, on the print, verso, l.c.: "Steinweg, Hôtel Schwan / Gustav Keller, Optiker / Frankfurt a.M." [oval shaped stamp with "Gustav Keller, Optiker" in superimposed rectangle] imprinted and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on the sheet, l.l.: "C. Hertel, Mainz"; and c.: "Nr. 642a." and with title imprinted - in typescript, in the image, c.r.: "DEM WAHREN SCHOENEN GUTEN." [above the main entrance]

Location:

Frankfurt am Main; Germany;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrance
figures (representations)
parapet
street lighting units
statues
columns (architectural elements)
pediments
opera house
porte-cochères

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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