Robert Conrad

Robert Conrad’s description of himself as Architecture Photographer is almost misleadingly modest. In his work buildings take on a quality of symbolic markers and milestones in cultural landscapes. Architecture is used as a prism through which he observes and reflects on the world around him and the past we leave behind.

Often Robert Conrad’s images are an act of preserving old things from disappearing – capturing dilapidated buildings as a form of protest against forgetting history. Until his death in 2023 Robert Conrad lived and worked  in Berlin.

East Germany & East Berlin

Lychener Strasse
Pfefferberg, Schönhauser Allee, East Berlin

Ghost Stations

Abandoned Train Tunnel near Potsdamer Platz
Bricked up exit of U-Bahnhof Potsdamer Platz
Bricked up Station Hall, Nordbahnhof
Pedestrian Tunnel, Nordbahnhof
Platform, Nordbahnhof
S-Bahnhof Potsdamer Platz
Sealed off U-Bahnhof Nordbahnhof
Station office on Platform
Telephone booth on platform of sealed off underground station
U-Bahnhof Stadtmitte
U-Bahnhof Unter den Linden

Vergessene Orte

Auditorium, Sovjet Officer Quarters, Zossen-Waldstadt
Beelitz Sanatorium
Beelitz Sanatorium #1
Beelitz Sanatorium #4
Former GDR Military Uniforms Supply Depot, Bernau
Power Station Plessa
Sauna Plunge Pool, Basement, South Wing, former GDR Main Directorate Reconnaissance / STASI
STASI Kommando 2 Headquarters
Teufelsberg US 'Listening' Field Station

The Wall

Berlin Wall, Märkisches Viertel
Brandenburg Gate, East Berlin
Death Strip near Brandenburg Gate
Death Strip near Lindenstraße
Field in Stolper Heide
Former Death Strip
Wall along Stahnsdorfer Straße
Wall at Lindenstraße
Wall at Rudower Chaussee
Wall at Staakener Nennhauser Damm
Wall cutting across Lindenstraße
Wall Segment with Graffiti

Italian Modernism

Calambrone