Salzburg by Harald Keller, with photographs by Walter Hege. Published 1956 by Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH, Munich-Berlin. Part of the respected “Deutsche Lande, Deutsche Kunst” series.

This is a historically significant posthumous publication. All photographs were taken specifically for this book by Walter Hege in the summer of 1955, the final year of his life. Hege (1893 to 1955) was one of Germany’s foremost architectural and art photographers of the 20th century, celebrated for his landmark publications on the Naumburg and Bamberg cathedrals and the Acropolis. He died before this book was published, making it his final completed photographic project.

Black cloth boards in Very Good condition with gold-stamped Salzburg coat of arms on front and gold spine lettering. Original photographic dust jacket present with corner wear and tears to lower rear panel. Interior pages clean with mild age toning.

Features a personal gift inscription in German dated Salzburg 1967.

Original unused 1956 Deutscher Kunstverlag publisher’s reply card tucked inside, a 70-year-old piece of intact original ephemera.

Text in German with full-page black and white photographic plates documenting Salzburg’s baroque architecture and sculpture.

A rare and collectible example of postwar German art book production by a photographer of lasting historical importance.