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Schostal
Schostal Photo Agency (Agentur Schostal) was an Austrian press photo agency, named for its founder, Robert F. Schostal. Photographers The Agency represented 408 photographers. Some are still of renown, such as Trude Fleischmann, Kitty Hoffmann, , Dr , Karel Hájek, Imre von Santho, Heinrich Hoffmann, Georges Sand, , Bert Longworth, Germaine Krull, Yva, Madame d'Ora and Lotte Jacobi. Especially for the latter Jewish photographers, Schostal was one of the few business to circumvent the Nazi Reich Chamber of Culture (Nationalsozialistische Reichskulturkammer) ban on their employment. History Schostal Photo Agency (Agentur Schostal) was founded by cousins Robert and Walter Schostal in 1929, with the aim of producing and distributing photographs both locally and globally. There was a family background in the sale of photography; their aunt, Regine Mattersdorf, owned Magazin Metropol in Vienna, financed by their father, from which she sold postcards, a business that Robert, then 19, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Kallmus
Dora Philippine Kallmus (20 March 1881 – 28 October 1963), also known as Madame D'Ora or Madame d'Ora, was an Austrian fashion and portrait photographer. Early life Dora Philippine Kallmus was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1881 to a Jewish family. Her father was a lawyer. Her sister, Anna, was born in 1878 and deported in 1941 during the Holocaust. Although her mother, Malvine (née Sonnenberg), died when she was young, her family remained an important source of emotional and financial support throughout her career. She and her sister, Anna, were both "well-educated," spoke English and French, and played the piano. They had also traveled throughout Europe. She became interested in the photography field while assisting the son of the painter Hans Makart, and in 1905 she was the first woman to be admitted to theory courses at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt (''Graphic Training Institute''). That same year she became a member of the Association of Austrian photographers. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trude Fleischmann
Trude Fleischmann (22 December 1895 – 21 January 1990) was an Austrian-born American photographer. After becoming a notable society photographer in Vienna in the 1920s, she re-established her business in New York in 1940. Early life Born in Vienna in December 1895, Fleischmann was the second of three children in a well-to-do Jewish family. After matriculating from high school, she spent a semester studying art history in Paris followed by three years of photography at the '' Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt für Photographie und Reproduktionsverfahren'' in Vienna. She then worked for a short period as an apprentice in Dora Kallmus' fashionable ''Atelier d'Ora'' and for a longer period for photographer Hermann Schieberth. In 1919, she joined the ''Photographische Gesellschaft in Wien'' (Vienna Photographic Society). Career In 1920, at the age of 25, Fleischmann opened her own studio close to Vienna's city hall. Her glass plates benefitted from her careful use of diffuse artificial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Hájek
Karel Hájek (22 January 1900, Lásenice – 31 March 1978, Prague) was a Czechoslovak photographer who was represented by Schostal Photo Agency (Agentur Schostal).Rebecca Madamba (2008) The Schostal Agency: A Finding Aid for the Schostal Agency Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Thesis of the Honours Bachelors of Arts, Studies in Arts and Culture, Concentration in Curatorial Studies, Brock University. Among his best known photographs is the one of Klement Gottwald and Vladimir Clementis on a balcony in 1948 from which Clementis was later erased. Gallery File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-09018-0009, Schnelltriebwagen Berlin-Prag, Louis Fürnberg spricht.jpg, German writer Louis Fürnberg giving a speech in front of the portraits of Klement Gottwald and Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Hoffmann (photographer)
Heinrich Hoffmann (12 September 188515 December 1957) was Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle. Hoffmann's photographs were a significant part of Hitler's propaganda campaign to present himself and the Nazi Party as a significant mass phenomenon. He received royalties from all uses of Hitler's image, even on postage stamps, which made him a millionaire over the course of Hitler's rule. After the Second World War he was tried and sentenced to four years in prison for war profiteering. He was classified by the Allies' Art Looting Investigators to be a "major offender" in Nazi art plundering of Jews, as both art dealer and collector and his art collection, which contained many artworks looted from Jews, was ordered confiscated by the Allies. In 1956, the Bavarian State ordered all art under its control and formerly possessed by Hoffmann to be returned to him. Life and career After completing his pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lotte Jacobi
Lotte Jacobi (August 17, 1896 – May 6, 1990) was a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black-and-white portrait photography, characterized by intimate, sometimes dramatic, sometimes idiosyncratic and often definitive humanist depictions of both ordinary people in the United States and Europe and some of the most important artists, thinkers and activists of the 20th century. Work Jacobi's photographic style stressed informality, and sought to delve deeper into the traits of her subjects than traditional portraiture. She made a point of photographing subjects in their own environments, and talking to them while she worked. She explained the reasoning behind her approach this way:I just try and get people to talk, to relax, to be themselves. I don't like a passive, bored subject. I do portraits because I like people, and I want to bring out their personalities. Many photographers today, I think, are bringing out the worst part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imre Von Santho
Imre Szántó, worked professionally as ''Imre von Santho'', (1895, Budapest – 1957, Frankfurt/Main) was a Hungarian fashion photographer and illustrator, based in Berlin and Vienna between the wars. Career In the 1920s, he worked as a fashion illustrator and he produced erotic illustrations, which he signed ''I. de Chanteau''. In the 1926 Handbuch des Kunstmalers (Directory of Berlin artists) he is shown at W15 Fasanenstrasse 33. He worked for the Agentur Schostal in Berlin from 1929 onwards. In the years between the wars, the Agentur Schostal had its head office in Vienna, with branches in Paris, Milan, Berlin and Stockholm. It was particularly successful in the 1930s up until the declaration of the Second World War. The main customers were print media, including magazines such as Die Dame, Die Woche and Uhu in Germany and Moderne Welt, , and Wiener Magazin in Austria, to which Schostal supplied images relating to culture, fashion and glamor. Its images also appeared in U.S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva (Italian Magazine)
''Eva'' was a weekly women's magazine which was published between 1933 and 1968 in Milan, Italy, with a two-year interruption. Its subtitle was ''settimanale per la donna italiana''. ''Eva'' was one of the leading illustrated magazines (Italian: Rotocalchi) of the period. History and profile ''Eva'' was launched by Ottavia Vitagliano in 1933, and its first issue appeared in April that year. Its publisher was Edizioni Vitagliano based in Milan. In 1964 Rusconi acquired the magazine and owned it until 1968 when it was folded. The magazine temporarily ceased publication between 1943 and 1945. It had 11 black and white pages at the start. Its page number was expanded to 32 in the period between 1952 and 1953. The magazine was published in oversize tabloid format using a velvet-like rotogravure printing. Content ''Eva'' was a mainstream women's magazine and covered articles on fashion, beauty hints, material on home and family. During its early phase ''Eva'' covered news about royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annabella (magazine)
''Annabella'' was an Italian women's magazine which existed between 1933 and 1983 with a one-year interruption from 1944 to 1945. History and profile The magazine was launched by Angelo Rizzoli in 1933 with the title ''Lei: rivista di vita femminile'' as a weekly. The first issue appeared in mid-July 1933. The publisher was Rizzoli company, and like other Rizzoli magazines it consisted of 16 pages with full-bleed photographs on the front and back covers. Also, like its sister magazines it was printed in a certain color which was sepia for ''Lei''. During the initial period it targeted the bourgeoisie housewives and featured articles on beauty, fashion, cooking, domestic decoration, and current events. In November 1938 it was renamed as ''Annabella'' due to the opposition of the Fascist authorities over the use of ''Lei'' as a magazine title. It was temporarily closed between July 1944 and 5 July 1945. In the post-war period the magazine adopted a conservative stance. ''Annab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mass Media Companies Established In 1929
Mass is an intrinsic property of a body. It was traditionally believed to be related to the quantity of matter in a physical body, until the discovery of the atom and particle physics. It was found that different atoms and different elementary particles, theoretically with the same amount of matter, have nonetheless different masses. Mass in modern physics has multiple definitions which are conceptually distinct, but physically equivalent. Mass can be experimentally defined as a measure of the body's inertia, meaning the resistance to acceleration (change of velocity) when a net force is applied. The object's mass also determines the strength of its gravitational attraction to other bodies. The SI base unit of mass is the kilogram (kg). In physics, mass is not the same as weight, even though mass is often determined by measuring the object's weight using a spring scale, rather than balance scale comparing it directly with known masses. An object on the Moon would weigh less t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austrian National Library
The Austrian National Library (german: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) is the largest library in Austria, with more than 12 million items in its various collections. The library is located in the Neue Burg Wing of the Hofburg in center of Vienna. Since 2005, some of the collections have been relocated within the Baroque structure of the Palais Mollard-Clary. Founded by the Habsburgs, the library was originally called the Imperial Court Library (german: Kaiserliche Hofbibliothek); the change to the current name occurred in 1920, following the end of the Habsburg Monarchy and the proclamation of the Austrian Republic. The library complex includes four museums, as well as multiple special collections and archives. Middle Ages The institution has its origin in the imperial library of the Middle Ages. During the Medieval period, the Austrian Duke Albert III (1349–1395) moved the books of the Viennese vaults into a library. Albert also arranged for important works from La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Gallery Of Ontario
The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO; french: Musée des beaux-arts de l'Ontario) is an art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The museum is located in the Grange Park neighbourhood of downtown Toronto, on Dundas Street West between McCaul and Beverley streets just east of Chinatown and just west of Little Japan. The museum's building complex takes up of physical space, making it one of the largest art museums in North America and the second-largest art museum in Toronto after the Royal Ontario Museum. In addition to exhibition spaces, the museum also houses an artist-in-residence office and studio, dining facilities, event spaces, gift shop, library and archives, theatre and lecture hall, research centre, and a workshop. It was established in 1900 as the Art Museum of Toronto, and formally incorporated in 1903, it was renamed the Art Gallery of Toronto in 1919, before it adopted its present name, the Art Gallery of Ontario, in 1966. The museum acquired the Grange in 1911 and late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 Disestablishments In Austria
Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British Railways. * January 4 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic, named the ''Union of Burma'', with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President, and U Nu its first Prime Minister. * January 5 ** Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (''Tournament of Roses Parade'' and the ''Rose Bowl Game''). ** The first Kinsey Reports, Kinsey Report, ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'', is published in the United States. * January 7 – Mantell UFO incident: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of an unidentified flying object. * January 12 – Mahatma Gandhi begins his fast-unto-death in Delhi, to stop communal violence during the Partition of India. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
