Portrait Collection Goldberg

In1906, the Berlin industrialist and art patron Adolph Goldberg (d. 1925) published hundreds of images of figures related to the flute – from Pan to Theobald Boehm – which he had gathered from various sources. He had them printed on panels and distributed under the title “Portrait Collection of Outstanding Flute Virtuosos, Amateurs, and Composers”. Only nine of these collections are known to exist worldwide. The Tübingen collection, originally from the possession of the instrument collector Josef Zimmermann (1881-1976), was acquired by Karl Ventzke (1933-2005) and then donated to the University along with the wind instrument collection. A volume with biographies and an index accompanies the images; this has also been preserved in the Tübingen collection.