Hermann Claasen
Hermann Claasen
Fronleichnamsprozession, Köln
1946
Gelatin silver print, printed later (copy print of a photo montage). 21.2 x 60.5 cm (21.7 x 60.5 cm). Signed in felt tip pen, photographer's stamp as well as numbered in an unknown hand in ballpoint pen on the verso.
Provenance
From the photographer to the present owner; private collection, Rhineland
Literature
Hermann Claasen, Gesang im Feuerofen. Köln. Überreste einer alten Deutschen Stadt, Dusseldorf 1947, ill. pp. 30
Hermann Claasen assembled two shots of a Corpus Christi procession through the ruins of the war-ravaged city centre of Cologne into an impressive panoramic view, which he presented on a double page spread in his book ‘Gesang im Feuerofen’ (1947).
