Edmund Engelman
La Maison de Freud - Berggasse 19 Vienne
Seuil 1979
Photobook
Softcover, 144 p.
61 × 46 x 41 cm
Texts in French
Vienna, May 1938. Swastika flags fly over the Austrian capital. Dr. Sigmund Freud and his family are under close surveillance by the Gestapo. In a few days, they will be leaving for exile. A departure for London that urgent diplomatic intervention had managed to extract from the ruling powers. It was in this twilight atmosphere that a young photographer, Edmund Engelman, arrived one morning on the first floor of the building at 19 Berggasse, the “mountain street,” where Freud was ending forty years of life in Vienna. His intention was to photograph every detail of every room in the apartment, including the furniture, paintings, objects, and antique collections. In a rush and with passion, thwarting the mistrust of the Nazi henchmen, Engelman completed his task. But he had to wait until after the war and find his negatives before this extraordinary document on the archaeology of a place, the most famous and least known in psychoanalytic geography, could finally be published: Sigmund Freud's house in Vienna.
A visit in Freud's working spaces and intimacy, as a museum catalog, richly illustrated by black and whites plates.
Photographs and texts by Edmund Engelman translated by Edgar Rosis.
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