Erich Hubala, Otto Mayer, Wolf-Christian von der Mülbe (photographer)
Die Residenz zu Würzburg.
Würzburg: Edition Popp, 1984. First edition inscribed by E. Hubala. 3881551115 320 pages.
Large-format volume, measuring approximately 10" x 12.25", is bound in white cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Name of previous owner appears on title page. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright pages. This work is illustrated with full-page b&w and color photographs, as well as textual illustrations. Text appears in double columns. Dust jacket shows light shelfwear, with minor loss at top edge of spine panel. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
Inscription on title page reads "Herrn Kollegen Christian Otto / mit Grüßen aus Würzburg. / 15.06.84 E. Hubala".
German art historian Erich Hubala (1920-1994) was chair of Medieval and Modern Art History at the University of Würzburg. Christian Otto (1940-2013) was architecture professor at Cornell University and a celebrated scholar of eighteenth- and twentieth-century architecture.
"Die Residenz zu Würzburg gilt als das "Schloß under den Schlössern", als die Vollendung der barocken Baukunst. In hervorragenden Aufnahmen stellt Wolf-Christian von der Mülbe das Gesamtwerk Residenz vor, mit den Augen des Kunsthistorikers sieht Professor Erich Hubala die geniale Konzeption des Schlosses, mit großer Sachkenntnis schildert Otto Mayer die umfangreichen Arbeiten des Wiederaufbaus nach der Zerstörung."
"The Würzburg royal residence is considered the 'castle among the castles', the perfection of baroque architecture. Wolf-Christin von der Mülbe presents the entire work of the "Residenz" in excellent photographs, and Professor Erich Hubala sees the ingenious conception of the building through the eyes of an art historian and  Otto Mayer describes with great expertise the extensive reconstruction work after the destruction of the Second World War."