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# Patrimony in Peril

**Germany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II**

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Cardboard and metal mounts hold Agfacolor film between two pieces of glass in these original 1943/1945 slides. The center slide shows the nineteenth-century murals in Joseph Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry in Berlin.

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
A survey photographer from Berlin, probably Peter Cürlis (1924–1997), is seen reflected in the mirror at far left, standing on a ladder with his camera. Potsdam (Brandenburg, Germany). Stadtschloss, apartment of Frederick the Great, writing cabinet decorations above doorway on north wall (overall on right, detail on left). (Photo by Peter Cürlis, 1943)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Berlin (Germany). Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (formerly Palais des Prinzen Karl and Ordenspalais). The palace was built in 1737 and remodeled by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841) from 1827 to 1828. In 1933 it became Joseph Goebbels’ propaganda ministry, and later it served as the administrative headquarters for the mural paintings survey. The palace was located on the north side of Wilhelms-Platz, which was also the location of the Reich Chancellery and Hitler’s bunker. The palace was destroyed in 1945. (Rare Postcard Collection)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Berlin (Germany). Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (formerly Palais des Prinzen Karl and Ordenspalais), Throne Room. Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), *Antique Cycle*.**These painted friezes continued around the perimeter of the room.

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Berlin (Germany). Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (formerly Palais des Prinzen Karl and Ordenspalais), Throne Room. Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), *Antique Cycle, Dionysus and Courtesan Dancing*, detail of the mural frieze.

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Berlin (Germany). Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (formerly Palais des Prinzen Karl and Ordenspalais), Pompeiian Room. Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), *Mythological Cycle, Europa on the Bull*, detail of wall decoration.

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Berlin (Germany). Altes Museum. This neoclassical building on the north side of the Lustgarten was originally designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841) for the Prussian royal family’s art collection and later became a state museum. It was built from 1824 to 1828 and damaged in 1945. (Wethey Rare Postcard Collection)

For the building’s history, see Image Collections' Holdings.

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Berlin (Germany). Altes Museum, Vestibule. Bernhard Wilhelm Rosendahl (1804–1846), *Scenes after Etruscan Wall Paintings*. This mural cycle represents the progression of the world from chaos to civilization. The mural was destroyed in 1945.

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Berlin (Germany). Altes Museum, Upper Vestibule. *Cycle of Human Life, Men Bringing Ram and Offerings to the Altar.* These frescoes were designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841) and represent the struggle of mankind against barbarians and the elements. This fresco was destroyed in 1945.

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Berlin (Germany). Altes Museum, Upper Vestibule. *Cycle of Human Life, Vase Painter and Draftsman.* These frescoes were designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841) and represent the peaceful avocations of civilization. They were destroyed in 1945. 

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Berlin (Germany). Neues Museum, on right, behind Schinkel’s Customs House. Designed by Friedrich August Stüler (1800–1865), a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), and built from 1843 to 1855, the building was recognized for its artistic internal decorations. It was damaged during bombing of Berlin. (Foto Marburg, detail)

For the building’s history, see Image Collections' Holdings.

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Berlin (Germany). Neues Museum, Niobid Gallery. *Scenes from Classical Literature and Mythology*, partial view of mural cycle. The murals were partially destroyed during the bombing of Berlin.

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Berlin (Germany). Neues Museum, Niobid Gallery. Bonaventura Genelli (1798–1868), *Daedalus Constructs Wings for Icarus*. The murals were partially destroyed during the bombing of Berlin.

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Berlin (Germany). Neues Museum, Dome Hall. Hermann Anton Stilke (1803–1860), *Christianity Adopted as the Religion of the State*. This work in the barrel vault was part of a cycle of paintings that were partially destroyed in the bombing of Berlin. 

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Berlin (Germany). Neues Museum, Dome Hall. *Perseus Frees Andromeda*, partial view of mural cycle. This mural was destroyed during the bombing of Berlin.

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Berlin (Germany). Stadtschloß. Built from 1443 to 1716, this palace was heavily damaged by Allied bombing in 1945, and demolished by the GDR in 1951. (Rare Postcard Collection) 

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Berlin (Germany). Stadtschloß, Knights’ Hall (Old Throne Room), nineteenth-century albumen print from glass collodion negative. (Gramstorff Collection)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Berlin (Germany). Stadtschloß, Knights’ Hall, throne canopy topped by a magnificent crown and intricate vault and wall decorations. Martin Luther stood under this crystal chandelier when he addressed the Diet of Worms in 1521. The chandelier was purchased from the City of Worms by Frederick William III and installed in the Stadtschloß. (Photo by Peter Cürlis, 1943/1945)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Berlin (Germany). Stadtschloß, Knights’ Hall. Johann Friedrich Wentzel (1670–1729),*Assembly of Olympian Gods*, ceiling painting, and the solid silver musicians’ balcony. The *Farbdiaarchiv* slides of the Stadtschloß provide possibly the only color images ever taken of the interior of the massive palace. (Photo by Peter Cürlis, 1943/1945)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Blaubeuren (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). Kloster Blaubeuren, Bathhouse. Peter Struv (active c. 1514), *Illusionistic Arbor with Hunting Scenes.* This view depicts murals in the Benedictine monastery bathhouse, created around 1510. The house is constructed in the *fachwerk* style, with post, beam, and infill. (Photo by Helga Schmidt-Glassner, 1944)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Blaubeuren (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). Kloster Blaubeuren, Bathhouse. Peter Struv (active c. 1514), *Illusionistic Arbor with Hunting Scenes, Young Buck.* This mural is in the Benedictine monastery bathhouse, created around 1510. (Photo by Helga Schmidt-Glassner, 1944)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Blaubeuren (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). Kloster Blaubeuren, Bathhouse, central beam west side. Peter Struv (active c. 1514), *John the Baptist in the Desert*(History of John the Baptist cycle). (Photo by Helga Schmidt-Glassner, 1944)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Blaubeuren (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). Kloster Blaubeuren, Margaret Chapel, south wall, first section. Bernhard Strigel (1460/1461–1528), *Martyrdom of St. Margaret, Angels with the Instruments of Martyrdom*(cycle). (Photo by Helga Schmidt-Glassner, 1944)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Bruchsal (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). Schloß, staircase.****This palace was constructed from 1722 to 1770 as a residence for the Prince-Bishops of Speyer, the only ecclesiastic complex of its kind on the upper Rhine. It is known for the opulent staircase by Balthasar Neumann (1687–1753), who also designed the staircase in the residence of the Prince-Bishops of Würzburg. The palace was destroyed March 1, 1945, but was later restored. (Postcard from the Rudolf Wittkower Collection)

For images of the war-damaged palace, see Image Collections’ holdings and the Monuments Men web feature.

 

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Bruchsal (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). Schloß, staircase dome fresco. Januarius Zick (1730–1797), *History of the Speyer Diocese,* 1751–1754. (Photo by Helga Schmidt-Glassner, 1943/1945)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Bruchsal (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). Schloß, staircase dome fresco. Januarius Zick (1739–1797), *History of the Speyer Diocese,* 1751–1754. After his plans to rebuild the residence attached to Speyer Cathedral were thwarted by Protestant municipal authorities, Prince-Bishop Damian Hugo Schönborn (1676–1743) decided to build an entirely new palace in Bruchsal, 25 km to the south. In this fresco, Damian Hugo plans the new palace with his architects and building contractors beneath a host of allegorical and mythological figures. (Photo by Helga Schmidt-Glassner, 1943/1945)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Bruchsal (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). Schloß, Hofkirche. Cosmas Damian Asam (1686–1739),*The Legend of Saints Cosmas and Damian*, 1730, nave ceiling fresco. Prince-Bishop Damian Hugo spared no expense when he hired one of Germany’s most celebrated fresco artists to decorate the church in the south wing of the new palace. (Photo by Helga Schmidt-Glassner, 1943/1945)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Bruchsal (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). Schloß, Hofkirche. Cosmas Damian Asam (1686-1739), *Saint Luke the Evangelist*, 1730, pendentive fresco. After their total destruction in 1945, the frescoes by Asam were not reconstructed when the church was rebuilt in a spare, modern style in the 1960s. (Photo by Helga Schmidt-Glassner, 1943/1945)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Dresden (Sachsen, Germany). Frauenkirche, south façade. Built from 1726 to 1743, the Frauenkirche was destroyed by Allied bombing in 1945, but rebuilt from 1996 to 2005. Slides showing the eighteenth-century inner dome frescoes in the Zentralinstitut’s *Farbdiaarchiv*were used as templates when the frescoes were reconstructed.

For views of the rebuilt Frauenkirche, see Image Collections' holdings.

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Ingolstadt (Bayern, Germany). St. Maria de Victoria Kirche (Asam Kirche), interior view of nave. Built from 1732 to 1736, this church is a masterpiece of the Bavarian rococo. It was damaged during the war. (Hitchcock Rare Postcard Collection)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Ingolstadt (Bayern, Germany). St. Maria de Victoria Kirche (Asam Kirche), interior east view of the altar with Cosmas Damian Asam’s (1686–1739) fresco *The Incarnation of the Lord*, believed to have been painted in eight weeks in 1734. (Photo by Peter Cürlis, 1943/1945)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Ingolstadt (Bayern, Germany). St. Maria de Victoria Kirche (Asam Kirche), west view of the high altar and partial view of Cosmas Damian Asam’s (1686–1739) fresco completed in 1734, one of the world’s largest flat-ceiling frescoes. (Photo by Peter Cürlis, 1943/1945)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Köln (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany). Dom St. Petrus und Maria, exterior from south. Built from 816 to 1880, the cathedral withstood fourteen direct hits during Allied air raids. (Rare Postcard Collection) 

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Köln (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany). Dom St. Petrus und Maria, interior of the nave from the west. On the left are the stained glass windows of the north aisle. Nineteenth-century albumen print from glass collodion negative. (Gramstorff Collection)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Köln (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany). Dom St. Petrus und Maria. Master of the Holy Kinship,**(active c.1480–1520),*Three Holy Kings Window*, 1508, central section of the second stained glass window west of the crossing in the north aisle. The cathedral apse contains a medieval reliquary with the bones of the Three Kings. (Endangered German and Austrian Stained Glass Survey)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Köln (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany). Dom St. Petrus und Maria. Master of the Holy Kinship (active c. 1480–1520), *Three Holy Kings Window*, 1508. This detail shows the base of the window where sixteen coats of arms identify the founder of the cathedral and his ancestors. (Endangered German and Austrian Stained Glass Survey)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Ludwigsburg (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). Schloβ Ludwigsburg, Middle Courtyard. Architects Philipp Joseph Jenisch (1671–1736), Johann Friedrich Nette (1672–1714), and Donato Giuseppe Frisoni (1683–1735). This palace was built from 1704 to 1733. The view to the north shows camouflage netting used for disguise during World War II air raids.

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Ludwigsburg (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). Schloβ Ludwigsburg. Pietro Scotti (active 1723), *Glorification of Princely Virtue*, ceiling fresco.

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Ludwigsburg (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). Schloβ Ludwigsburg. Luca Antonio Colombo (1674–1737), *Apollo with the Muses* (right), ceiling fresco.

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Potsdam (Brandenburg, Germany). Stadtschloβ. Built from 1662 to 1669 under Frederick William and expanded from 1744 to 1752 under Frederick the Great. This palace was an important example of Frederician rococo. It was destroyed in 1945 and recently reconstructed. (Philbrick Rare Postcard Collection)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Potsdam (Brandenburg, Germany). Stadtschloβ, Marble Hall. Designed by Andreas Schlüter (1664–1714) and Georg Wenceslaus von Knobelsdorff (1699–1753), with a ceiling painting by Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (1719–1795) and a painting on canvas by Paul Carl Leygebe (1664–1756) titled *Triumph of the Great Elector*. The palace was destroyed in 1945. (Photo by Peter Cürlis, 1943)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Potsdam (Brandenburg, Germany). Stadtschloβ, Marble Hall. View shows Andreas Schlüter’s (1664–1714) stucco work in the northeast corner. The palace was destroyed in 1945. (Photo by Peter Cürlis, 1943)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Potsdam (Brandenburg, Germany). Stadtschloβ, Frederick the Great Apartment, Concert Room. View to the northwest corner shows Johann August Nahl the Elder’s (1710–1781) wall and ceiling decoration with rococo ornament and musical instruments. The palace was destroyed in 1945. (Photo by Peter Cürlis, 1943)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Potsdam (Brandenburg, Germany). Stadtschloβ, Frederick the Great Apartment, Concert Room. *Four Chinoiserie Murals: Two Men Playing Music* (cycle). The palace was destroyed in 1945. (Photo by Peter Cürlis, 1943)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Würzburg (Bayern, Germany). Furstbischofliche Residenz, garden façade. Built from 1720 to 1780, the palace was severely damaged in 1945, and reconstructed from 1945 to 1987. (Rare Postcard Collection)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Würzburg (Bayern, Germany). Furstbischofliche Residenz, staircase by Balthasar Neumann (1687–1753). The ceiling fresco by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), an allegory of the planets and four continents created from 1752 to 1753, is considered the artist’s highest achievement. Remarkably, it was not damaged by the devastating March 16, 1945 air strike that burnt out most of the Residenz. (Rare Postcard Collection) 

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Würzburg (Bayern, Germany). Furstbischofliche Residenz, staircase fresco. The fresco by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770) covers an area 59 by 98 feet on the unsupported stone vault ceiling. The stone ceiling protected Tiepolo’s masterpiece from the fire ignited in the roof and attic above it by the 1945 air raid. Later, MFAA Officer John Davis Skilton (1909–1992), a former National Gallery of Art curator, ingeniously organized the building of a temporary roof above the fresco to save it from seeping rainwater. (Photo by Carl Lamb, 1943/1945)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Würzburg (Bayern, Germany). Furstbischofliche Residenz, staircase fresco. In Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s (1696–1770) fresco, the continent of Europe dominates the other three continents in culture and civilization. Here the allegorical figure representing painting indicates with her brush that Würzburg is the cultural center of Europe. Tiepolo and his son Domenico, in a white wig, look on from the far left. (Photo by Carl Lamb, 1943/1945)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Würzburg (Bayern, Germany). Furstbischofliche Residenz, staircase fresco. In the center, the planets are presented as gods and goddesses from classical mythology, such as Luna the moon goddess pictured here. (Photo by Carl Lamb, 1943/1945)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Würzburg (Bayern, Germany). Furstbischofliche Residenz, Mirror Cabinet. Completed from 1740 to 1745, this precious room was one of the most original interiors created for the Würzburg Residenz. It was completely destroyed when roof fires caused by the Allied air raid of 1945 spread down through wood ceilings and floors from the attic. (Rare Postcard Collection)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Würzburg (Bayern, Germany). Furstbischofliche Residenz, Mirror Cabinet. This corner of the ceiling was decorated with gilded stucco and a painted relief of an allegory of Asia. (Photo by Carl Lamb, 1943/1945)

Patrimony in PerilGermany’s Survey of Mural Paintings Threatened During World War II
Würzburg (Bayern, Germany). Furstbischofliche Residenz, Mirror Cabinet. *Personage on a Palanquin borne by Jesters*, 1740s, reverse painting on glass with *verre églomisé* archers in the upper corners. (Photo by Carl Lamb, 1943/1945)

These selected images are part of the historic *‘Führerprojekt’*, also referred to as *Farbdiaarchiv zur Wand- und Deckenmalerei*(*Color Slide Archive of Wall and Ceiling Painting*),****an official Nazi archive of wall and ceiling frescoes that was produced by order of Adolf Hitler at the height of World War II. The department of image collections has a partial archival set of 3,572 35mm color ‘*Führerprojekt’* slides, and 1,038 color slides from a separate stained glass survey, that came to the Gallery via publisher Kurt Wolff in 1951. A more complete set of 39,000 slides can be found in the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich.

In April 1943 Hitler issued the *Führerauftrag Monumentalmalerei* (*Führer’s Order for Monumental Painting*), which charged the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda with implementing and administering a photographic survey. The resulting images were meant to serve as archetypes from which to reconstruct war-damaged artworks after the anticipated *Endsieg* (Nazi final victory). The Ministry officials began by compiling lists of historic buildings within the Third Reich that they deemed to be culturally valuable and worth preserving, and ranked the sites in order of importance starting with those most threatened by potential Allied incursions. They then hired and trained photographers and equipped them with guidelines, cameras, lenses, film, and lighting devices, in some cases military searchlights for oversized ceiling frescoes, and arranged for scaffold builders and ground transportation. The Ministry anticipated that the program would produce a large volume of images, and so for efficiency they used Agfacolor Neu, a pioneering color slide film developed by the German company Agfa in 1936 that reduced processing from 27 to 5 steps.

At the time, the documentation program was considered prestigious and positions were highly desirable because they offered a degree of economic security and physical safety. The photographers came from a wide swath of German society: university professors, students and prominent art historians, photojournalists, chemists, and professionals from motion picture studios such as Rex-Film and UFA. By April 1945, survey photographers had documented the immovable paintings and wall treatments of 480 buildings dating from the tenth to the nineteenth centuries in Germany, Austria, Poland, and Russia. The campaign continued until the defeat of the Third Reich, although many of the photographers by then could barely cover their expenses, and 60 percent of the sites they photographed had been bombed.

Despite poor documentation of some sites and the loss of many slides in the chaos that followed the end of the war, the archive remains an invaluable resource for images of historic wall and ceiling paintings in central Europe.

This feature presents a selection of exterior and interior views of German patrimony in Berlin, Blaubeuren, Bruchsal, Dresden, Ingolstadt, Köln, Ludwigsburg, Potsdam, and Würzburg, where many monuments became casualties of war. All images are from the department of image collections, and from the *Farbdiaarchiv* set specifically, unless otherwise indicated.

See the complete list of sites represented in the Gallery’s *Farbdiaarchiv*.

Patrimony in Peril LectureZentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, MunichList of sites represented in the Gallery’s *Farbdiaarchiv*

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