Ludwig Rotthowe

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Ludwig Rotthowe (* 22. January 1937 in Telgte , † 18 October 2017 ibid ) was a German railway photographer of the 20th century. He worked full-time as a photographer, initially in Telgte and later in Münster . He had been retired since 2000.

Life and work as a photographer

Rotthowe began an apprenticeship as a photographer in Telgte in 1952, and in the same year he took his first train photos. Inspired by illustrated books of sophisticated landscape photography and the work of the railway photographers Jean-Michel Hartmann and Toni Schneiders , he developed his own style of photography. For him, it's not about individual vehicles, but above all about staging the railway in the landscape. Rotthowe used telephoto lenses at an early stage to enhance the picture's message.

Rotthowes first publications were landscape photographs in daily newspapers. Since 1964, his characteristic railway pictures have also appeared, first in magazines and later in books. In addition to numerous individual images in specialist books on various railway topics, four of their own illustrated books were also published.

Publications (monographs)

  • Ludwig Rotthowe: Steam locomotive romance in Westphalia. EK-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. (Undated)
  • Ludwig Rotthowe: Steam Locomotives - 1956–1976. 2nd edition Freiburg i.Br. (1977) ISBN 3-88255-213-1
  • Ludwig Rotthowe (photos) / Wolfgang Fiegenbaum (texts, picture editing): By rail through Germany - on the move with DB diesel and electric locomotives. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne / Mainz (1983) ISBN 3-17-008129-2 ; Special edition Transpress-Verl., Stuttgart (2000), ISBN 3-613-71130-3
  • Ludwig Rotthowe: On rails through Westphalia - master photos of the railways from 1952 to 1985. Edited and explained by Jürgen-Ulrich Ebel , Aschendorff, Münster (2008) ISBN 978-3-402-00247-6

literature

  • Burkhard Beyer: The design of the train in the landscape. The photographic work of Ludwig Rotthowe , in: industrie-kultur 2009, issue 3, pp. 42–43, ISSN  0949-3751
  • Karlheinz Haucke: The flying Ludwig. A railway photographer from the Münsterland , in: Modelleisenbahner Jg. 57, 2008, Issue 3, pp. 16-23, ISSN  0026-7422
  • Wolfgang Klee: Like no other [obituary Ludwig Rotthowe], in: Eisenbahngeschichte Jg. 15 (2017), No. 85 (December 2017 / January 2018), p. 57, ISSN  1611-6283
  • Jürgen-Ulrich Ebel: Ludwig Rotthowe †, in: Eisenbahn-Kurier Jg. 52 (2017), No. 12 (December 2017), pp. 34–35, ISSN 0170-5288

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Rotthowe obituary notice.
  2. ↑ http://www.wn.de/Muenster/2008/12/Nachrichten-Muenster-Eisenbahnliteratur-Einzigartiges-Dokument-der-Technikgeschichte
personal data
SURNAME Rotthowe, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German railway photographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Telgte
DATE OF DEATH 18th October 2017
Place of death Telgte