- Artist/Maker:
- Markus Brunetti
- Bio:
- German, b. 1965
- Title:
- Bucuresti, Templul Coral
- Portfolio/Series:
- FACADES
- Date:
- 2018-19
- Medium:
- Archival pigment print
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 70 7/8 × 59 1/16 in. (180 × 150 cm) Image: 66 1/8 × 54 5/16 in. (168 × 138 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund
- Accession Number:
- 2019-34
- Copyright:
- © © Markus Brunetti, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Not On View
Markus Brunetti began documenting religious architecture throughout Europe in 2005 in his ongoing project FACADES. Over the course of years, Brunetti digitally photographs a historical building three square feet at a time. The resulting thousands of images are then painstakingly arranged together into a large-scale photographic work, a hyperreal spectacle for the eye.
This composite view is of the Choral Synagogue in Bucharest, one of the only synagogues active in Romania today. It was constructed between 1864 and 1866 to serve a then- robust Jewish community of Bucharest, the majority of whom were killed or fled during World War II. The Moorish Revival-style building survived the war and even the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu’s plans for its demolition in the 1980s. Its design is nearly identical to that of the Synagogue Tempelgasse in Vienna, which was completely destroyed on Kristallnacht, a Nazi pogrom that took place on November 9 and 10, 1938.
This composite view is of the Choral Synagogue in Bucharest, one of the only synagogues active in Romania today. It was constructed between 1864 and 1866 to serve a then- robust Jewish community of Bucharest, the majority of whom were killed or fled during World War II. The Moorish Revival-style building survived the war and even the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu’s plans for its demolition in the 1980s. Its design is nearly identical to that of the Synagogue Tempelgasse in Vienna, which was completely destroyed on Kristallnacht, a Nazi pogrom that took place on November 9 and 10, 1938.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.