EXHIBITION

NAPLES AND THE SOUTH

PHOTOGRAPHS 1846-1900, COLLECTION SIEGERT

11.11.2011 - 18.03.2012
Neue Pinakothek

In the 19th century, Naples and southern Italy were popular tourist destinations and an attractive source of photographic motifs. In Naples, it was the photographer Giorgio Sommer from Frankfurt am Main in particular, who made use of motifs from this region for a medium that was still emerging.
The emphasis in this exhibition of early photographs from the renowned Dietmar Siegert Collection is on Naples and the surrounding area, Vesuvius and the archeological sites Pompeii and Paestum, as well as Sicily, with views of Palermo, Agrigent and Taormina. In addition to photographs of classical landscapes and cities, genre and everyday scenes will also be shown, alongside unusual pictures such as of the eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 and the photographic documentatioin of the earthquake that destroyed the town Casamicciola in 1883.
'Naples and Southern Italy' is the last of a series of exhibitions from the early days of photography in Italy from the Dietmar Siegert Collection, that began in 1996 with Venice and was continued with Florence and Tuscany in 1997 and Rome in 2005.