Museum Fotoatelier Seidel
Art Nouveau photo studio turned museum, with glass-plate negatives and darkroom gear from a family postcard business.
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This guide to the Museum Fotoatelier Seidel in Český Krumlov follows Josef Seidel, who arrived in 1888 to manage a photography shop and built it into a postcard-printing operation employing eleven people, photographing villages across the Šumava hills in runs of hundreds and thousands. It traces the business to his son František, who inherited the studio at twenty-seven and kept the postcard trade running, and to the day in 1948 when the new communist state nationalized most of the family's negatives. You'll see the roughly one hundred forty thousand glass plate negatives still stacked through the building.
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