Fritz Kempe (photographer)

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Fritz Kempe (born October 22, 1909 in Greifswald , † December 27, 1988 in Hamburg ) was a German photographer .

Life

Fritz Kempe grave,
Ohlsdorf cemetery

Kempe learned the photography trade from his father Max Kempe, with whom he also passed the journeyman's examination in 1927. Two years later he opened the Foto-Kempe company in Greifswald with the chemist Gerhard Jacobs. In 1938 he passed the master's examination and founded his own studio for industrial and advertising photography in Berlin. With the beginning of the Second World War he was used as a photo reporter in a propaganda company of the Wehrmacht, including during the German-Soviet War in the area of ​​Army Group Center. This resulted in the propaganda illustrated books The Face of the German Soldier and The Fuhrer's Soldier - The Face of Our Time . From 1945 he lived in Hamburg, where he worked for a welfare organization and at the same time as an editor and writer. From 1949 to 1974 he worked as a director for the State Image Office in Hamburg . Kempe photographed the Hamburg portrait collection and its guests , founded the Hamburg collection on the history of photography in 1952 and worked in this context at the Hamburg Museum of Art and Industry . In 1982 he was awarded the title of professor.

Fritz Kempe was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square Bp 64 (east of Prökelmoorteich ).

reception

As a teacher in the 1950s and 1960s, he played a key role in the development of photography as part of the possibilities of artistic expression in Germany. He was an honorary member of the GDL and received the David Octavius ​​Hill Medal in 1974 and the Senator Biermann Ratjen Medal in 1981 for his artistic services to the city of Hamburg.

His photographic life's work, Hamburger and their guests, includes around 1,300 portraits of personalities from cultural, political and intellectual life.

Awards

Works

  • Film, technology, design, effect , Braunschweig, Georg Westermann Verlag, 1958, 196 pages (also Dutch: Film, Techniek, Vormgeving, Werking , Breda, De Vroente-Kasterlee-Desclee de Brouwer, 216 pages)
  • Learning from master photos , Düsseldorf, Wilhelm Knapp Verlag, 121 pages
  • The face of the German soldier - photos, idea and compilation by Fritz Kempe. Introduction by Hans Baumann , ed. from the High Command of the Wehrmacht, Zeitgeschichte-Verlag, Berlin 1943.
  • The Fuehrer's soldiers - the face of our time , all PK recordings: Fritz Kempe, Propaganda Company of the Army Busch [u. a.], Berlin undated [approx. 1943].
  • The anonymous co-educators of our youth, on the nature and influence of the mass media , Munich, Don Bosco Verlag, 1963, 44 pages
  • in collaboration with Bernhard Meyer-Marwitz: Hamburger: An attempt at a topography , Verlag des Hamburger Journal, Hamburg, [illustrated book] 1963, 144 pages
  • Fetish of the Century, reader for photo enthusiasts , Düsseldorf, Vienna, Econ-Verlag, 1964, 380 pages; Also titled Wonderful World of the camera, a reader for photo enthusiasts expelled
  • The picture and the reality , Grünwald, Institute for Film and Picture, 1974, 141 pages
  • Here we truly see miracles, Biedermeier: At the cradle of photography , Westermanns Monatshefte (5), 1975: 32–43
  • In front of the camera. On the history of photography in Hamburg , Hamburg, Christians Verlag, 1976, 144 pages
  • Art Nouveau Photography in Europe , European Hefts (4) 1976: 41–53
  • Landscape in black + white, nature and human hands: accents of a permanent photo theme , Westermanns Monatshefte (2), 1977: 70–81
  • A Genius' Discovery - William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) , European Hefts (4) 1977: 63–72
  • Photograph. Between daguerreotype and art photography , Museum of Arts and Crafts, 1977
  • in collaboration with Gerhard Kaufmann and Jürgen Meyer: Shipping on old photographs, from the holdings of the Altona Museum , Hamburg, Altona Museum, 1978, 73 pages plus picture catalog
  • Daguerreotype in Germany. On the charm of early photography , Seebruck am Chiemsee, Heering, 1979, 270 pages
  • Art photography around 1900 in Germany and its relationship with other countries , Stuttgart, Institutes for Foreign Relations, 63 pages
  • in collaboration with Erika Kempe and Heinz Spielmann: The Art of the Camera in Art Nouveau , Frankfurt am Main, Umschau Verlag, 1986, 244 pages
  • Evelin Schultheiß (ed.), Kempe, Fritz (epilogue): The old Helgoland, photographed by Franz Schensky , Worpswede, Worpsweder Verlag, 1988, 112 pages

archive

  • Negative archive in the Hamburg Monument Protection Office, picture archive
  • Archive Fritz Kempe in the Museum of Art and Industry Hamburg, photography collection
  • Fritz Kempe Collection in the Photography Collection in the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum, Gottorf Castle, Schleswig

literature

  • Heinz Spielmann : Fritz Kempe, the collector . In: Die Photographische Sammlung, a selection for the 150th anniversary of photography . Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Gottorf Castle, Schleswig 1989, pp. 49–51.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data from Fritz Kempe at VAN HAM
  2. ^ Franklin Kopitzsch and Dirk Brietzke (eds.): Hamburgische Biografie - Personenlexikon . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-7672-1366-1 , pp. 211-212 .
  3. ↑ Fritz Kempe's biography at picture index
  4. ↑ Celebrity Graves
  5. ↑ German Photographic Academy eV ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutsche-fotografische-akademie.com
  6. ^ DGPh research award for the history of photography at the German Society for Photography, accessed on July 15, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Kempe, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1988
Place of death Hamburg