[CHINA] Ernst OHLMER (1847-1927) - 圓明園歐式宮殿殘蹟.... - Lot 298 - Morel de Westgaver

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[CHINA] Ernst OHLMER (1847-1927) - 圓明園歐式宮殿殘蹟.... - Lot 298 - Morel de Westgaver
[CHINA] Ernst OHLMER (1847-1927) - 圓明園歐式宮殿殘蹟. [Remains of European architecture in Yuanmingyuan]. Teng Gu, 1933. 230 x 270 mm, paperback, black spine, first cover illustrated with photograph (foxing on plate, tears and small tears in margins). [19] leaves. Title and introduction in Chinese, colophon printed on 3rd cover. 1 plan of the summer palace and 14 collotypes, captioned in Chinese. Freckles, small marginal loss affecting the whole album. A major photographic testimony published thanks to a discovery by the Chinese art historian Teng Ku in Ernst Boerschmann's collection during a stay in Germany in 1932. He had the work printed in 1933 by the Shanghai Commercial Press. The book contains 14 collotypes (one of which is also reproduced on the cover) of the Yuanmingyuan, the former Summer Palace, 12 of which are taken from Ohlmer's original glass plate negatives; the other 2 come from a work by E. Favier. The Yuanmingyuan, "garden of perfect clarity", the most prestigious of the Qing emperors' summer palaces, was a vast complex located 12 km northwest of Beijing, and the favorite residence of the emperors. The "sacking of the Summer Palace" by British and French forces took place in 1860, during the Second Opium War. Ohlmer defied the ban on entering the place and took these photographs in 1873. It is for this reason that he is considered as the first German photographer in the history of Chinese photography. Thiriez Régine. The European Palaces of Yuanmingyuan through photography: 1860-1940. In: Arts asiatiques, tome45, 1990. pp. 90-96.
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