Friedhof Bei Salò | Cemetery near Salò

Friedhof Bei Salò | Cemetery near Salò

Poplar trees surround this view of a cemetery in the town of Salò, on the banks of Lake Garda in Italy.

Dr. A. Richter

From Lipiny, in Southern Poland, (German: Lipine) no biographical details for this amateur photographer are known at this writing. Primary sources show he was referred to as “Direktor Richter” in the photographic press; “A. Richter” and “Dr. A. Richter”. Insight welcome.

Salò is a town and comune in the Province of Brescia in the region of Lombardy (northern Italy) on the banks of Lake Garda, on which it has the longest promenade. The city was the seat of government of the Italian Social Republic from 1943 to 1945, a state often referred to as the “Salò Republic” (Repubblica di Salò in Italian). -Wikipedia (2024)

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Friedhof Bei Salò | Cemetery near Salò
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Dimensions

Image Dimensions13.2 x 23.2 cm Lieferung 4 | Fourth Issue

Support Dimensions26.4 x 34.9 cm cropped to plate marks

Print Notes

Recto: engraved: u.l.: Die Kunst in der Photographie 1904.; u.r.: Verlag von Wilhelm Knapp in Halle a/S.; l.l.: Richter, Lipine.; title, centered, lower margin: FRIEDHOF BEI SALÒ.; l.r.: Meisenbach Riffarth & Co., hel. u. impr.; non-printed loose tissue guard.

Published

Photographische Mitteilungen, September, 1903, full-page halftone, Friedhof Bei Salò, Von A. Richter in Lupine, p. 282

Photographische Rundschau, May 1903, full-page halftone, Friedhof Bei Salò, Richter, Lupine, p. 107