http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c87s7qqc Online items available Finding aid for Foto arte minore: Max Hutzel photographs of art and architecture in Italy Martha Steele, Andra Darlington, Laney McGlohon, and Tracey Schuster Finding aid for Foto arte minore: Max 86.P.8 1 Hutzel photographs of art and architecture in Italy ... Descriptive Summary Title: Foto arte minore: Max Hutzel photographs of art and architecture in Italy Date (inclusive): 1960-1990 Number: 86.P.8 Creator/Collector: Hutzel, Max Physical Description: 915 boxes(circa 67,275 black-and-white photographic prints, circa 86,400 black-and-white negatives) Repository: The Getty Research Institute Special Collections 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles 90049-1688
[email protected] URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref (310) 440-7390 Abstract: This collection contains thorough photographic documentation by Max Hutzel of art and architecture in Italy ranging in date from Antiquity to late Baroque. Included are photographs of secular buildings, museum holdings, ancient ruins, and religious institutions covering a broad range of artistic forms and styles, including architecture, paintings, frescoes, sculpture, manuscripts, metalwork and other minor arts. The regions most heavily represented are: the Abruzzi, Lazio (including Rome), the Marches, and Umbria. Request Materials: Request access to the physical materials described in this inventory through the catalog record for this collection. Click here for the access policy . Language: Collection material is in English Biographical / Historical German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until the late 1980s, resulting in a vast body of photographs that he referred to as "Foto arte minore." Over the years he amassed a collection of about one million negatives and sold his photographs to individual scholars for publication and to institutions such as the Biblioteca Herziana, the National Gallery in Washington, and the Kunsthistorische Institut in Florence.