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The stern Photo Archive of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has been launched online. The library thus makes one of the most important visual archives of the Federal Republic accessible to the public. At stern-fotoarchiv.de the first 250,000 pictures of the total of around 15 million pictures are available for scholars, the public and commercial use. The portal is under construction and is expanded continuously.

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has managed to complement its extensive Japanese collection by an outstanding work: The woodblock print "Thunderstorm in the foothills of the Fuji" by Katsushika Hokusai (1760 – 1849), the great master of Japanese coloured woodblock printing, could be bought from a Japanese private collection.