Anne Winterer (21 September 1894 – 17 August 1938) was a German photographer known for her industrial and cultural work. Her rediscovered work is in the German
New Objectivity
The New Objectivity (in german: Neue Sachlichkeit) was a movement in German art that arose during the 1920s as a reaction against expressionism. The term was coined by Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub, the director of the ''Kunsthalle'' in Mannheim, wh ...
style and records particularly people's work at the time.
Life
Winterer was born in
Konstanz
Konstanz (, , locally: ; also written as Constance in English) is a university city with approximately 83,000 inhabitants located at the western end of Lake Constance in the south of Germany. The city houses the University of Konstanz and was t ...
in 1894 where she decided to become a photographer. She trained and qualified in 1915. That year she spent three months working in
Furtwangen
Furtwangen im Schwarzwald (; Low Alemannic: ''Furtwange im Schwarzwald'') is a small city located in the Black Forest region of southwestern Germany. Together with Villingen-Schwenningen, Furtwangen is part of the district (German: Kreis) of Sc ...
before she moved to
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in ...
. She worked at two studios where she took both portraits and industrial subjects.
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In 1924 she met Erna Wagner.][ She first trained and then went into partnership with opening a joint studio in Düsseldorf in 1925. Together they won prizes for their work. In 1926 they took a gold medal at the Düsseldorf Exhibition in a scientific category. During the 30s her work was featured in the magazine "Atlantis" and she recorded industrial subjects as well as local cultural events][ in the New Objectionist style.][ In 1935 her partnership ended and she returned to her home town. From there she started to travel to Austria, Portugal and Switzerland which she recorded with her camera.][ Meanwhile, her former partner continued their previous business. She had now married, but the business retained the name of "Hehmke-Wintering".][Anne Winterer]
matthias-dudde.de, Retrieved 23 May 2016
Winterer died of cancer in Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitu ...
in 1938. Her photographic legacy has been rediscovered by historian Matthias Dudde.[Anne Winterer]
Photographers of the Rhineland, Retrieved 23 May 2016 Her rediscovered work records particularly people's work at the time.[talk on Winterer by Dude]
LWL.org, Retrieved 23 May 2016
References
External links
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1894 births
1938 deaths
People from Konstanz
Photographers from Baden-Württemberg
German women photographers