Protection of art during war. Reports concerning the condition of the monuments of art at the different theatres of war and the German and Austrian measures taken for their preservation, rescue and research, in collaboration with Gerhard Bersu, Heinz Braune, Paul Buberl [and others]
A 1919 Leipzig report by art historian Paul Clemen, compiled for a German and Austrian audience, documenting damage to churches and monuments in France and Belgium during the First World War and the measures taken to protect them. The plates pair photographs of intact interiors with wrecked nave walls, rubble-strewn floors and a bird's-eye view of Reims, offering a designer ruined Gothic arches, stone debris and cathedral plan imagery to draw on for scenes of devastation.
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