Descriptive Summary
Adminstrative Information
Biographical/Historical Note
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Weltausstellung in Wien 1873
Dates: 1873
Collection Number: 2002.R.13
Extent:
16 photographs
(1 box)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Abstract: Sixteen photographs credited variously to György Klösz, Oscar Kramer, and Joseph Löwy. The photographs document exhibition
buildings and exhibits of the 1873 Vienna International Exhibition.
Language: Collection material is in
English,
German,
French
Adminstrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Weltausstellung in Wien, 1873. Research Library, The Getty Research Insititute,
Accession no. 2002.R.13
Acquisition Information
Received in 2002.
Processing History
Processed by Shilpa Rele
Biographical/Historical Note
Photographs in this collection are by György Klösz, Oscar Kramer and Joseph Löwy (1832-1902). Not much is known about Kramer
and Löwy other than that they were both Austrian and that Kramer was active from 1867 to 1869.
The Hungarian photographer György Klösz (Johann Georg Justus Kloess) was born in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1844. Klösz moved
to Vienna after his education and worked in a photography studio. In the 1870s he was one of the first Hungarian photographers
to take photographs outside of the studio. He captured almost 260 photographs of the city of Budapest.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection is comprised of sixteen photographic prints of exterior and interior views of the Vienna International Exposition.
Included are a view from the west of the Industry Palace, which was one of the largest civic buildings built in Vienna at
the time; the South gate to the Industry Palace; the Monaco, Kaiser, Swedish Hunt, and the Russian Kaiser Pavillions; and
the east gate to the Art Hall. Three photographs show sculptures by Italian artists.
Fourteen mounts bear a letterpress crest above the image with text: Viribus Unitis. The photographs are numbered and captioned
in the negative in German. All but two mounts are printed with the name of the exposition in German, French and English below
the image, along with the credit: Photographie und Verlag der concessionirten Wiener Photographen-Association. Titles and
signatures are transcribed from the negative. None of the photographs are dated. Cataloger’s notes are in brackets.
Arrangement
Items arranged by exterior and interior views of exhibition buildings.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Klösz, György
Kramer, Oscar
Löwy, Joseph, 1832-1902
Vienna International Exhibition (1873)
Subjects - Topics
Sculpture—Italy—19th century
Exhibition buildings—Austria—Vienna
Subjects - Places
Vienna (Austria)—Description
Genres and Forms of Material
Albumen prints—Austia—19th century
Contributors
Klösz, György
Kramer, Oscar
Löwy, Joseph, 1832-1902
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