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Berggasse 19: Inside Freud’s Office (with Diana Fuss) – Joel Sanders Architect. In May of 1938, on the eve of Sigmund Freud’s expulsion from Vienna and flight to London, Freud’s colleague August Aichhorn met with the photojournalist Edmund Engelman at the Café Museum on Karlsplatz to make a proposal.

Would it be possible, Aichhorn wondered, to take photographs of Freud’s office and apartment without drawing the attention of the Gestapo who, since Hitler’s annexation of Austria two months earlier, had been keeping the home of one of Vienna’s most famous Jewish intellectuals under constant surveillance? The purpose of this photographic documentary was to provide an inventory of Berggasse 19 so exact that, as Aichhorn envisioned it, the home of psychoanalysis might be painstakingly recreated as a museum after the impending war. Engelman, a mechanical and electrical engineer who ran a local photography shop on the Karntnerstrasse, agreed to try to provide a pictorial record of Berggasse 19. 1. 2. Three Pipe Problem: The windows of the mind. Rooms with a view Window frames Gustave Caillebotte’s Young Man at His Window (1876) is a favourite work by one of my favourite artists.

Placing a male figure inside a new Parisian apartment, Caillebotte shows him looking out of an open window, over a chunky balustrade, and down onto the street below. Hands in his pockets, the young man’s pose is confident and alert—perhaps even a little predatory. We quickly surmise that he was probably only recently sitting in that plush armchair behind him; and that it may have been a glimpse of something or someone in the street that prompted him to stand to attention.