A gun blast from Munich! - The oldest photograph in Germany has been found in a museum.
At the German Museum in Munich, they stumbled upon an incredible discovery - the earliest photograph made in Germany. This photo depicts the iconic Frauenkirche church, has a size of 4x4 centimeters, and was captured by chemist and mineralogist Franz von Kobell (1803 - 1882) in March 1837, two years before the official announcement of photography's invention!
This small revelation in the world of photography history has left quite an impression. The general belief is that the technology was born on August 19, 1839, in Paris when Louis Daguerre (1787 - 1851) unveiled his invention to the public - the Daguerreotype, the first commercially usable photographic process. With this method, negatives couldn't be created on metal surfaces.
Eager to uncover more about the early years of photography, researcher Cornelia Kemp, from the German Museum, had been digging through Kobell's archived recordings for her book "Light-Image-Experiment." In her exploration, she discovered something remarkable: Kobell had shot a total of 14 images between 1837 and 1839, featuring the Frauenkirche, the famed cafe house "Tambosi," and Schloss Nymphenburg.
The reason no one noticed these photos before
The tiny pictures were attached to cardboard and then framed. The notes on the backside were seemingly uninteresting, so they lay undisturbed for over 100 years in the museum's archive. Kemp states, "We can say for sure: These are the oldest photos in Germany, and they were taken in Munich."
The public exhibition of these originals will likely have to wait. The Frauenkirche photo needs to return to a climate-controlled room to ensure it stays safe and undamaged. The fragility of the image makes it impossible to display without endangering it.
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Source: symclub.org
