SCHMÖLZ, Hugo & Karl Hugo SCHMÖLZ - Köln an der Seine. Der Kölner Pavillon auf der Pariser Weltausstellung 1937

"Paris, in the summer of 1937. For the last time, the nations have an apparently peaceful meeting at the world exhibition.

Nazi Germany is represented by a giant tower by Albert Speer with a swastika.

As the only city in the world, Cologne - encouraged by the French - is also building its own pavilion with a café terrace on the Seine.

While the war has long been prepared in secret, the people of Cologne conjure up international understanding there. Here is the brutal appearance of German fascism,

there its cozy, cozy version.

All of this is captured by the young photographer Karl Hugo SCHMÖLZ, who will document Cologne's post-war architecture twenty years later.

Mario Kramp reconstructs a forgotten episode of German-French history on the basis of previously unevaluated sources from Paris, Berlin and Cologne." (publisher's note, © Greven Verlag, 2019)

Catalog volume for the exhibition in the Cologne City Museum:

August 24, 2019 to December 15, 2019