Adolf Schneeberger (born in
Choceň
Choceň (; german: Chotzen) is a town in Ústí nad Orlicí District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 8,500 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
Villages of Březenice, Dvořisko, Hemže, Nová Ves, Plchůvky and Podráže ...
, 1897 -
Prague, 1977) was a
Czech photographer.
He studied engineering and photography at the
Czech Technical University in Prague, 1914. He was the founder of the
Czech Photographic Society with
Jaromir Funke Jaromír, Jaromir, Jaroměr is a Slavic male given name.
Origin and meaning
Jaromír is a West Slavic given name composed of two stems ''jaro'' and ''mír''.
The meaning is not definite:
*Polish ''jary'' (archaic) = „spry, young, strong“; ''m ...
and
Josef Sudek
Josef Sudek (17 March 1896 – 15 September 1976) was a Czech photographer, best known for his photographs of Prague.
Life
Sudek was born in Kolín, Bohemia. He was originally a bookbinder. During the First World War he was drafted into the A ...
in 1924.
Selected Public Collections
*Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, USA
*National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
Books of Adolf Schneeberger's works
*Dufek, Antonín: ''Adolf Schneeberge '' Prague: Odeon, 1983.
*Josef, Váša: ''Fotografická tvorba Adolfa Schneebergera'' FAMU Praha, 1978
*Adlerová Alena, Alborch Carmen, Bydžovská Lenka, Dufek Antonín, Frampton Kenneth, Kubová Alena, Lahoda Vojtěch: '' The Art of the Avant-garde in Czechoslovakia 1918 - 1938 '' Institut Valencia d´Art Modern, 1993
*Birgus, Vladimír: Czech Photographic Avant-Garde, 1918–1948, Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2002
External links
Adolf Schneeberger: Sbírka fotografií skupiny PPF
1897 births
1977 deaths
Photographers from Prague
Czech Technical University in Prague alumni
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