Graphic materials

The exhibition offers unique visual materials from the collections of Johann Christoph Brotze,  Ernest Felsberg and Art Cabinet of University of Latvia. Worthy of note are pictures of Baltic places – photos, postcards and prints of  cities and settlements in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania from the 19th century to 1940.  The exhibition features steel-engraved reproductions of the views of heritage value of Vidzeme, Kurzeme and Estonia („Album baltischer Ansichten” by  W.S. Stavenhagen), postcards of cities in Kurzeme and Lithuania from the first half of the20th century, photographs of buildings and their interiors in Riga and Cēsis (e.g., the interior of the hotel „Roma”). The images have visually recorded events and objects of historical significance, physically vanished now and irreversibly perished.

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