Georg Koppmann, Ruins of St. Michael's Church, organ niche from the St. Michaelis Memorial Folder, Staatliche Landesbildstelle Hamburg, collection on the history of photography, silver gelatin paper, black and white positive process, image size: height: 17.8 cm; width: 24.2 cm, inscribed: recto u.: einbelichtet: G. KOPPMANN & Co. Hamburg 1906. ruins of the Michaeliskirche. Organ niche, architectural photography, reporting photography, ruin church, monastery, hist. Building, locality, street, church interior, historical event, situation, Hamburg, The St. Michaelis Memorial Folder is the last of more than ten portfolios of photographs from Hamburg that Georg Koppmann dedicated to his home town. The folder was published in 1906 on the occasion of the fire in the main church of St. Michaelis. Although the collapsing tower and the burnt-out ruins are the focus of the portfolio, Koppmann supplements it with reproductions of historical engravings, pictures of the intact building and photographs showing St. Michaelis as a Hamburg landmark. At the end of a career spanning more than 40 years, Koppmann not only benefits from his experience as an event photographer, but can also draw on the strengths of his extensive archive of city views. (Sven Schumacher)

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