Andreas Gehrke
Quelle Versand
64 pages / 27 images
16.5 × 21.5 cm
Edition of 300, numbered
Foreword: Christine Dissmann
Design: Katrin Oeding
ISBN 978-3-9815735-2-7
Quelle Versand
1956 – 2009 Nürnberg
Part of photographer Andreas Gehrke’s powerful narrative series on dormant modernist buildings. Vacant work spaces that once hosted business enterprises playing a significant role in shaping the political, social and economic face of post-war Germany.
Founded in 1927, Quelle was Germany’s biggest mail order catalogue company and one of its largest department store chains. This purpose-built building by former Bauhaus student Ernst Neufert in Nuremberg was Quelle’s mail order HQ from 1956 until the company’s insolvency in 2009.