Sigmund Freud: Berggasse 19, Vienna
Photographs and Epilogue by Edmund Engelman
Introduction and Legends by Inge Scholz-Strasser
4to. pp. 111. b/w illustrations. bibliography. hardcover (near fine - covers bit scuffed, light wear to edges). New York: Universe Publishing, [1998].
ISBN-10: 0789302543 / ISBN-13: 9780789302540
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On a wet May morning in 1938, a young photographer named Edmund Engelman was invited by a coworker of Prof. Dr. Sigmund Freud to photograph the renowned psychoanalyst's cherished winter residence at number 19, Bergasse, in Vienna's 9th district.
This volume brings together for the first time in book form the fruits of Engelman's singular project and provides a precious visual chronicle of Sigmund Freud's private life. This remarkable collection features some of the only extant photographs of Freud's storied analyst's couch, along with distinguished pictures of his coveted library, his collection of Near Eastern art, and several rare photographs of Freud himself just weeks before the Nazi occupation forced him to leave Vienna forever. Published on the occasion of an exhibition of Engelman's photos traveling to the Library of Congress and the Jewish Museum, Bergasse 19 is an unprecedented look into the personal universe of this remarkable figure whose name became a byword for modern psychology.