Object record
The visible SCHIEL 45 signature, Königs Hotel / Ratskeller lettering and the complete contents list establish the artist and title. The portfolio title joins two descriptions: ‘Fachwerkbau — Der alte Ratskeller.’
SeriesFamily-held objects and volumes
- Archive reference
- RB-SCAN-043
- Date
- Images made in 1945; Bestehorndruck portfolio issued circa 1945–1946
- Medium
- Bestehorndruck reproduction on heavy card stock, after a drawing or painting
- Physical dimensions
- Approximately 40.5–41.5 × 29–30 cm in complete-copy descriptions; this family sheet has not been independently measured
- Digital image
- 1682 × 2600 pixels
- Evidence status
- Documented family-held portfolio sheet; artist and portfolio identified; acquisition history open
- Uncertainty
- The original tiny plate number was apparently cropped from the scan's narrow right edge. The title is secure even though no separate printed title is visible on the sheet.
- Source and provenance
- One-page PDF scan of a family-held card-stock portfolio sheet, supplied to Rabbi Daniel Dolph Reichenbach by email and accessioned on 26 August 2026.
- Custody history
- Daniel Reichenbach reports that his grandfather Dolf bought the portfolio sheets and that Daniel's father retained the eight now scanned. Daniel's aunt has confirmed that she holds another print from the set; that sheet has not yet been photographed or identified. No receipt, inscription or dated family record currently establishes when or where Dolf acquired them.
- Credit
- Reichenbach Family Archive; artwork credited to the named artist; Bestehorndruck, Halberstadt
- Rights
- Family-held copy displayed at reduced resolution for historical identification, education and commentary. Copyright in the underlying artwork is not claimed by the Reichenbach Family Archive; no independent reuse rights are granted.
- Image treatment
- Full captured sheet rotated upright and reduced to a 1682 × 2600-pixel WebP access image. The captured borders, foxing, staining, tears and edge losses are retained; no cleanup, restoration, replacement or generative alteration was made. The source scan itself appears to crop part of the narrow right edge.
Portfolio and artist research
Several sheets are signed and dated 1945, and a separately catalogued Bestehorndruck plate is described as issued in 1945. Gemm's official biography dates his initiation of the twelve-view memorial portfolio to 1946, so the catalogue preserves the 1945–1946 publication uncertainty.
- Buchfreund — Ernst Datan portfolio plate, Bestehorndruck, issued 1945
- Walter Gemm biography — twelve-view memorial portfolio initiated in 1946
- City of Halberstadt — Walter Gemm, ‘Chronist mit Stift und Pinsel’
- ZVAB — complete twelve-title contents list
- Kunst- und Auktionshaus Quedlinburg — complete twelve-sheet portfolio
Permanent citation
How to cite this object
Chicago-style suggested citation
Reichenbach Family Archive. “Edwin Schiel — Fachwerkbau: Der alte Ratskeller.” Images made in 1945; Bestehorndruck portfolio issued circa 1945–1946. RB-SCAN-043. https://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/rb-scan-043.
Permanent URLhttps://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/rb-scan-043