Bedrooms - Germany

Bedrooms in Germany (19 photographs).

I started to take photographs of bedrooms which are originally from the 1930's and 1940's. Many of these bedrooms were still in the original condition as they were furnished at that time, when the young couple married and moved together in their new home.
The same bed-linen, the same wallpaper.
Usually the parents bought the bed, which was made by a local carpenter. The pictures on the wall shows to which religion the couple belonged. The roman catholic preferred the pictures with a Madonna, the protestant with Jesus and/or angels. The pictures were sold by merchants from house to house. They had up to ten different religious scenes for sale.
The woman slept on the right side of the bed, the man on the left. The small crosses on the wall are given to the couple for marriage and will given to them when they die.
Some alarm clocks shows the time of death of the partner, sometimes they remove the bed-linen or left the bed as it was.
All of the owners are in their 80s and 90s and many of them never thought to change their bedrooms or replace the beds with modern ones, only if they were too sick and need special beds.

The photographs are available in a limited edition of Diasec Prints in the size 50 x70 cm including a white border around the photographs.