Digitisation and specialist indexing of the Collection of Architect Albrecht Haupt

The GESAH and GESAH+ projects were carried out as a joint project of the German National Library of Science and Technology - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and Hannover University Library (TIB) and the Department of Architectural and Urban History, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH) and funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeisnchaft (DFG) from 11/2019 to 02/2026. The aim of the projects was to make the Albrecht Haupt collection available online. This comprises three sub-collections: loose prints and drawings, bound graphic volumes within Haupt's library, and the so-called travel sketches.

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News (project completed)

From Stockholm to Milan in just a few clicks

Four volumes of drawings from 19th-century architects' estates are now available online on the TIB SAH portal.

New publication: Paper on GESAH Graphic Arts Ontology in the Art Libraries Journal 2025

In our paper we describe the ontology and its implementation within the digital collection of Albrecht Haupt on TIB SAH digital. The paper is published with open access.

OAI-PMH endpoint provided

An OAI-PMH endpoint is now available for better interoperability between our collection and other repositories.


Architekturzeichnungen der Sammlung Albrecht Haupt, ed. by Markus Jager and Simon Paulus, Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2023