1927 · Power Station Switch Room · Work 1222 of 1,871
The switch room of a lignite power station in Lusatia on a grey spring morning, soft daylight through a skylight dome onto terracotta floor tiles, along the walls dark green panels with square instruments and beige stone-coloured generator panels with large round brass instruments, every dial a blank face with plain marks, every panel plain and unmarked, above them on the cream wall a painted black diagram of thin lines and small circles, in front a long black control desk with a cream top, toggle switches, indicator lamps and handwheels, two black enamel pendant lamps, a switchman in a grey work coat seen from directly behind with his hand on a toggle.