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Visual Culture

Grove Dictionary of Art*
(solid scholarly articles written by professional art historians — covers artists, architects, places, regions, countries, styles, genres, epochs, movements, motifs, and concepts — detailed bibliographical references — includes the Bridgman online image library)

LeMO
(multimedia based virtual museum about twentieth-century German history)

Akustische Chronik
(excellent collection of images and audio files covering Austrian cultural history in the twentieth century — hosted by the Technical Museum Vienna, Austria)


Verbotene Bilder, manipulierte Filme
(multimedia project on German film censorship, 1920-1938)

Political Iconography
(project at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg)

archINFORM
(basic information on buildings, architects, locations, etc.)

Iconic Turn
(web site devoted to recent work and research on technical images and their cultural impact — media theory — technoscience — hosted by the Hubert Burda Foundation)

Iconoclash
(famous exhibition at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe, Germany — examines the status of images in science, religion, and art)

Bund Deutscher Architekten
(contemporary German architecture and architectural theory)

Aby Warburg, Mnemosyne-Atlas
(partial online version of one of the most important projects of modern art history — traces the development of pictorial motifs from the ancient Middle East to the modern world — extensive image atlas — text in Italian)

German Emblem Books

The English Emblem Book Project

The University of Glasgow Emblems Website

 

Images

DHM Bildarchiv Fotografie
(photography archive of the German Historical Museum — splendid collection, focusing mainly on 1920s to 1990s)

Farbdia-Archiv: Mitteleuropäische Wand- und Deckenmalerei, Stuckdekorationen und Raumausstattungen
(despite its cumbersome title, this is a comprehensive collection of more than 39,000 images of architectural details — covers historical buildings, castles, churches, etc. throughout Central Europe — hosted by the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich)

Archivision Digital Library
(professional image resource for architecture, gardens, and public art)

Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte

Image Archive of the German Historical Museum (DHM)

Image Archive on Art and Architecture in Germany

International Museum of Photography and Film, George Eastman House