In 2024 , the Deutsche Fotothek celebrates its 100th anniversary. In twelve exhibitions in Dresden and elsewhere, as well as in numerous events , we will look back on an eventful history and what defines our profile as an archive of photographers today: being a central location for the preservation, research and communication of photographic heritage.
All information on the anniversary yearThe Deutsche Fotothek at SLUB Dresden is one of the most important image archives in Europe with a collection of around seven million photographs and an online offering of currently around 2,355,000 image media. Our aim is to preserve and activate important examples of analogue and digital photography through online presentation, exhibitions and publications.
Archiv der Fotografen — Archive of photograhers
With the Archive of Photographers, the Deutsche Fotothek offers a showcase for the works of important German photographers or photographers working in Germany — from the Deutsche Fotothek's holdings and from the collections of its partners .
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Christian und Helga von Alvensleben
August Kotzsch
Susan Lamèr
Gaby Sommer
New at Deutsche Fotothek
Original prints of around 75 portraits by Fritz Kempe were donated to the Deutsche Fotothek collection in September 2024. The estate of publisher and photographer Hansgert Lambers, who died on 23 June 2024 and left behind impressive city and street photographs spanning seven decades, was newly added to the archive of photographers. At the end of 2023, it was agreed to take over the archive of Barbara Metselaar Berthold, one of the great photographers of the GDR, who died in Berlin on 21 September 2024. Few photographers in the GDR have searched for traces of individual confrontation with the agony of the system as insistently as she did.
Hansgert Lambers
Fritz Kempe
Barbara Metselaar Berthold
Fotothek classic
Townscapes, art, architecture or portraits - these and other thematic focuses characterise the Fotothek's holdings from the period from 1924 to the early 2000s. Browse through these central subject areas of our historic collection or simply use the search slot at the top.
Places
Art
Architecture
Portraits
Topics
The thematic approach presents results from third-party funded projects such as "Weltsichten" and "Die Gute Form" as well as portfolios compiled by individual photographers and selected focal points of the collection of the Deutsche Fotothek and its partners .
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Weltsichten — Worldviews
Christian und Helga von Alvensleben
Die gute Form — Good Design
Sorbian Culture
Portals
The Map Forum is an information portal of libraries, museums and archives within our image database, which is maintained by the Deutsche Fotothek and funded by the DFG. It currently offers over 32,000 of the most important high-resolution digitised cartographic sources.
Our portal for Architectural and Machine Drawings presents 108,000 sheets from the collections of the SLUB Dresden, the architecture museums of the Technical University of Berlin and the Technical University of Munich, the so-called Mecklenburg Planschatz and the results of our DFG project "Architektur- und Ingenieurzeichnungen der deutschen Renaissance".
Kartenforum — Map Forum
Architectural and Machine Drawings
