Materials on the Prehistory and Early History of Photography in

A reply from the owner of the Diorama, Carl Gropius, in Berlin in 1862, to an inquiry about the estate of C.F. Schinkel and his trips to Italy. Comprising: 1) Embossed letterhead of "CARL GROPIUS BERLIN im Diorama", dated 29 Jan. 1862, and another blank letterhead. – 2) Lithograph with the portrait of C. F. Schinkel, 11 x 17 cm, by H. Schütze, Lith. Inst. of B. Kehse & Sohn, Magdburg. – And: 3) Album of the XXII. Animal Studies (depictions of young dogs), by C. Reinhart in Rome, 1815, with three original etchings signed in plate by the artist, one dated Roma 1815, published in Frankfurt am Main by Johann Friedrich Wenner. – Note: Johann Christian Reinhart (1751 in Hof – 1815 in Rome), royal Bavarian court painter and friend of Schiller, was the undisputed center of ex-patriot German artistic life in Rome. He became known for his realistic depiction style, and later for his turn to romanticism. According to rdklabor.de/wiki/Diorama: Schinkel's trip to Italy in 1805 prompted his friend Wilhelm Ernst Gropius to set up a mask factory for "Italian masks" and in 1807 to open a mechanical theater, in which life-sized marionettes (presumably with dialogue) acted in front of Schinkel's illuminated panoramic optical perspective images. This was followed in 1808 by the Panorama of Palermo and in 1821 Daguerre opened his diorama in Paris. According to Stephan Oettermann (1980), "Das Panorama", p. 158–160, on Schinkel's Panorama of Palermo (1808): "The greatest influence on the development of the diorama was the Berlin court theater painter Carl Wilh. Gropius. Karl Friedr. Schinkel, who devoted himself to panorama painting in the first years after his Italian trip, had a decisive influence on his artistic activity." After Gropius' son, Carl, had visited Paris and the diorama several times, a similar building was constructed in Berlin according to Schinkel's plans. It was thanks to his panoramas that Schinkel was able to start a family, achieve recognition from the king and ultimately become a well-known architect. His connections to the Gropius family were based on photography. The silk manufacturer J.C.Chr. Gropius, a friend of Schinkel, sent one of the first mass-produced cameras from Paris to the Schinkel building of the Berlin Trade Institute (Bauakademie) in August 1839, and Carl Gropius' brother George printed the "Practical Description of the Daguerreotype" in 1839 in his publishing house there. On 21 September 1839, it was announced at the meeting of German natural scientists and doctors in Pyrmont that Wagner and Pistor had succeeded in taking daguerreotype photographs in Berlin, which had previously been announced to the press by George Gropius in the Bauakademie. For almost 50 years (1885–1933), the building was the headquarters of the Royal Prussian Messbild-Anstalt, renamed the Staatliche Bildstelle in 1921. In 2019, the Federal Foundation Bauakademie was founded as the sponsoring organization for the reconstruction of the building.

布雷克拍品等级是为了方便竞买人判断拍卖品的成色而设置的。布雷克等级用1到6级来标注外观和功能的成色，(从非常好到非常差)。 在目录图册里用括号里的2个数字来表示，前一个数字表示外观成色的级别，后一个数字表示功能成色的级别。如(3/2)表示外观成色是3(满意的)，功能成色2(好)。 成色 定义参照下列标准： 1 - 非常好 (未使用过，没有使用痕迹) 2 - 好 (新，极少的使用痕迹) 3 - 满意的 (普通的使用痕迹) 4 - 及格的 (明显的使用痕迹，某个非主要部件是后配的) 5 - 有缺陷的 (极明显的使用痕迹, 某个主要部件是后配的，功能上有缺陷，需要修理) 6 - 非常差 (严重破损, 缺少重要部件)