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List Of German Women Photographers
This is a list of women photographers who were born in Germany or whose works are closely associated with that country. A * Louise Abel (1841–1907), German-born Norwegian photographer * Gertrud Arndt (1903–2000), created self-portraits from around 1930 * Ursula Arnold (1929–2012), street scenes in Berlin and Leipzig during the German Democratic Republic * Ellen Auerbach (1906–2004), see United States B * Tina Bara (born 1962), freelance artistic photographer * Uta Barth (born 1958), art photography * Carla Bartheel (1902–1983), film actress and photographer * Hilla Becher (1934–2015), together with her brother Bernd, produced typologies of industrial buildings and structures * Bertha Beckmann (1815–1901), possibly Germany's first professional woman photographer * Katharina Behrend (1888–1973), see Netherlands * Sibylle Bergemann (1941–2010), chronicler of social life in East Germany * Ella Bergmann-Michel (1896–1971), abstract painter, photographer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of , with a population of almost 84 million within its 16 constituent states. Germany borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilie Bieber
Emilie Bieber (1810–1884) was a German photographer who opened a studio in Hamburg as early as 1852.Rita Bake, "Emilie Bieber" Hamburg.de. Retrieved 8 March 2013. Biography On 16 September 1852, Bieber opened a daguerrotype studio at 26, Großen Bäckerstraße in Hamburg at a time when photography was practiced almost exclusively by men. As a result, she was one of the first women to become a professional photographer in Germany. Initially her business did not do well. Just as she was on the point of selling it, she received encouragement from a |
Wanda Von Debschitz-Kunowski
Wanda von Debschitz-Kunowski (née Wanda von Kunowski; 8 January 1870 – 23 April 1935) was a German portrait photographer based in Munich. Life Kunowski was born in Hammer, Kreis Czarnikau, province of Posen, she was the daughter of August von Kunowski and Helene von Bethe. She was the first wife of Wilhelm von Debschitz; there were three children born of that marriage, including daughter Wanda Ziegert von Debschitz and Irene von Debschitz who would later marry Bauhausler Xanti Schawinsky. From 1902 through 1914, she worked at the Debschitz School, first in the metal workshop (1902-1905) and later teaching photography (1905-1914). By 1921, she had opened her own photography studio in Berlin. Her work included nudes, and dancers. Debschitz-Kunowski's vision was known to have differed with that of the photographer Cami Stone, wife of Sasha Stone Sasha Stone may refer to: * Sasha Stone (blogger) (born 1965), American blogger, founder of Awards Daily blog * Sasha Stone (ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemarie Clausen
Rosemarie Clausen (née Rose Marie Margarethe Elisabeth Kögel); (5 March 1907 – 9 January 1990) was a German photographer. She worked as theatre and portrait photographer and received several awards for her work. Life Born in near Berlin, Clausen was a granddaughter of the Oberhof and Domprediger and daughter of the pastor and school councillor Rudolf Kögel and his wife Sabine, née Gehring. In 1934, she married the journalist and film producer Jürgen Clausen (1905–1944), who was killed as a pilot of a night fighter during the "Big Week". Clausen, who originally wanted to become a portrait painter, completed an photographer apprenticeship with Marie Böhm, the head of the renowned studio Becker & Maass, and after three years passed the assistant examination with distinction at the Lette-Verein in Berlin. Afterwards, she worked from 1929 until autumn 1933 as assistant to the theatre photographer Elli Marcus and after her emigration with her own studio in Berlin-Schm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladys Chai Von Der Laage
Gladys Chai von der Laage (born Chai Ng Mei on 22 February 1953) is a German sports photographer of Malaysian Chinese origin. She has previously competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics as a Malaysian pentathlete. Early life Chai Ng Mei was born on 22 February 1953 to Chinese parents. Career When she was 14 years old, Chai won a silver in the high jump event of the 1967 Southeast Asian Games. She trained in West Germany in 1971. The following year, she represented Malaysia in the women's pentathlon event of 1972 Summer Olympics but was forced to retire because of an injury. Chai won four golds at the 1973 and 1975 SEA games; 2 each in high jump and pentathlon. She finished in the ninth place at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games's women's high jump event and bagged another gold medal in the high jump event of 1979 Southeast Asian Games. Later she became a sports photographer and was awarded the German Athletics Association's Media Prize in 2016 after more than twenty years of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traude Bührmann
Traude Bührmann (born 26 November 1942, in Essen) is a German writer, journalist, photographer and translator. Biography After high school, Bührmann made a commercial apprenticeship and a two-year stay in London and Paris After that, she became a foreign correspondent for local journals. In the early 1970s, she spent several years in Nepal and India and publishes photo and experience reports. Back in Germany, from 1973 to 1977, she completed her sociology studies in Berlin. From 1976 to 1979, she served as editor of the feminist magazine '' Courage: Berliner Frauenzeitung'' and other international journals. She also worked as a freelance journalist, writer and photographer and wrote texts and made image contributions for documentaries and anthologies. In 1984, Bührmann co-founded the West Berlin '' Lesben.Kultur.Etage Araquin''. Her first novel, ''Flüge über Moabiter Mauern'', was published in 1987. In 1989, she translated, among other novels, Nicole Brossard's ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Käthe Buchler
Käthe Buchler (1876–1930) was a German photographer. Biography Buchler née von Rhamm was born on 11 October 1876 in Braunschweig, Germany. A self-taught photographer, her husband gave Buchler her first camera (a binocular Voigtländer) in 1901. During World War I Buchler recorded daily life in Braunschweig including war efforts, orphaned children, and wounded soldiers. Buchler worked mainly with black and white film but also experimented with the new Autochrome process. Buchler died on 14 September 1930 in Brunswick. In 2003 the archive of 1,000 black and white prints and 175 color autochrome plates was donated to the ' (Museum of Photography Braunschweig). In 2017 and 2018 an exhibition of Buchler's work ''Beyond the Battlefields:Käthe Buchler’s Photographs of Germany in the Great War'' was shown at the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Birmingham. Gallery Käthe Buchler – Braunschweig in World War I (2).jpg, Braunschweig in World War I Käthe B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Breslauer
Marianne Breslauer (married surname Feilchenfeldt, 20 November 1909 – 7 February 2001) was a German photographer, photojournalist and pioneer of street photography during the Weimar Republic. Life Marianne was born in Berlin, the daughter of the architect Alfred Breslauer (1866–1954) and Dorothea Lessing (the daughter of art historian Julius Lessing). She took lessons in photography in Berlin from 1927 to 1929, and she admired the work of the then well-known portrait photographer Frieda Riess and later of the Hungarian André Kertész. In 1929 she travelled to Paris, where she briefly became a pupil of Man Ray, whom she met through Helen Hessel, a fashion correspondent for the ''Frankfurter Zeitung'' and family friend. Man Ray encouraged Breslauer to "go her own way without his help." A year later she started work for the Ullstein photo studio in Berlin, headed up by Elsbeth Heddenhausen, where she mastered the skills of developing photos in the dark-room. Until 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Bossard-Biow
Jenny Bossard-Biow (1813 – after 1858) was an early German female photographer, possibly the first woman in Germany to have worked with the daguerreotype Daguerreotype (; french: daguerréotype) was the first publicly available photographic process; it was widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. "Daguerreotype" also refers to an image created through this process. Invented by Louis Daguerre an ... process. She was the sister of the photographer Hermann Biow who had established a studio in the Altona district of Hamburg in 1841. When he moved to Dresden in 1848, Bossard-Biow continued to run the Hamburg studio. References Pioneers of photography 1813 births German women photographers Photographers from Hamburg 19th-century German photographers Year of death missing 19th-century women photographers {{Germany-photographer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Bohm
Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was a German-born British photographer based in London, known for her portraiture, street photography, early adoption of colour, and photography of London and Paris; she is considered one of the doyennes of British photography. Life and career Bohm was born Dorothea Israelit in June 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a German-speaking family of Jewish-Lithuanian origins. From 1932 to 1939 she lived with her family in Lithuania, first in Memel (now Klaipėda) and later in Šiauliai. She was sent to England in 1939 to escape Nazism: first to a boarding school in Ditchling, Sussex, but soon to Manchester, where her brother was a student, and where she met Louis Bohm (whom she would marry in 1945).Dorothy Bohm,Manchester Memoir (2007), Manchester Art Gallery. Accessed 1 July 2012. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna And Bernhard Blume
Anna Blume (née Helming; 21 April 1936 18 June 2020) and Bernhard Johannes Blume (8 September 19371 September 2011) were German art photographers. They created sequences of large black-and-white photos of staged scenes in which they appeared themselves, with objects taking on a "life" of their own. Their works have been shown internationally in exhibitions and museums, including New York's MoMA. They are regarded as "among the pioneers of staged photography". Anna Blume Born Anna Helming in Bork, Westphalia, Prussia, Germany, on 21 April 1936, she later described her childhood as happy. She studied art at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf from 1960 to 1965, like her future husband. When they got married in 1966, she enjoyed having the same name as Kurt Schwitters' imaginary figure, Anna Blume. The couple lived and worked together in Cologne. She gave birth to twin girls in 1967. Until 1985 she worked as a crafts and arts teacher at a Gymnasium. Anna Blum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilse Bing
Ilse Bing (23 March 1899 – 10 March 1998) was a German avant-garde and commercial photographer who produced pioneering monochrome images during the inter-war era. Biography Background and early life Bing was born to a wealthy Jewish family of Frankfurt merchants as the daughter of the merchant Louis Bing and his wife Johanna Elli Bing, nee. Katz. At the age of 14, she was given a Kodak box camera, which she used to take her first self-portrait. Bing began studying mathematics and physics at Frankfurt University in 1920, but shortly afterwards turned to art history and the history of architecture. She spent the winter semester of 1923/1924 at the Kunsthistorisches Institut Vienna. In 1924, Bing began a dissertation on the architect Friedrich Gilly (1772-1800). The first photo works were created as part of this work after she bought her first camera, a Voigtländer (9x12cm), for documentation purposes. It was during her time that Bing developed her lifelong interest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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