The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 13, 2025
Airship Hindenberg: View Inside the Engine
c. 1936
(German, 1905–1970)
Image: 23.4 x 17.4 cm (9 3/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.134
© Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler, D-77654 Offenburg, Germany
Location: Not on view
Description
Tritschler shows the Hindenburg, based in Friedrichshafen, Germany, in flight during its first trip to South America. The photographer, who had been hired to document the voyage, used a Leica, a relatively new German 35 mm camera. Its small size and light weight allowed it to be handheld at many different angles and to be used in restricted, unstable places such as this engine compartment, which would have been quite difficult to photograph in flight with a bulkier camera requiring a tripod. One year later, while attempting to dock in New Jersey, the Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed. The accident extinguished confidence in the use of rigid airships for passenger travel.- November 23, 2000(Villa Grisebach, Berlin, Nov. 23, 2000, no. 1498, sold to David Raymond)2000-2007David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY2007-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. Reproduced: p. 5, no. 2; reproduced and mentioned: p. 237.
- Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
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