Adalbert Defner

Adalbert Defner (born January 19, 1884 in Millstatt ; † December 15, 1969 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian landscape photographer.

Life

After studying natural sciences at the University of Vienna , where he also received his doctorate, he worked as an assistant at the 1st Zoological Institute in Vienna from 1909 to 1911 before becoming a high school teacher. In the First World War he took part as an army photographer, where he gained extensive experience in photography. After the war he moved to Wernigerode am Harz in the Prussian province of Saxony , where he founded a workshop for artistic and landscape photography in the Hasserode district in 1919. In 1923 he passed the master photographer examination in Magdeburg .

Adalbert Defner returned to Austria in 1925, where he founded a second photography workshop in Innsbruck, which he relocated to Igls in 1929 . When this company was doing well, he closed his photo workshop in Germany in 1930.

In 1960 Defner handed the publishing house over to his son Karl. In 1992 Karl Defner handed the publishing house over to his son Thomas Defner. In 1997 the company building was expanded. The Defner cards are sold in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. The Defner calendars are shipped worldwide.

Today the publishing house in Igls has five employees. Only photographs made by employees of the publishing house are processed.

power

Adalbert Defner achieved supraregional importance through high-quality landscape photographs, which he processed on numerous postcards (so-called Defner cards ) and from 1930 on calendars. The Otto Paulmann publishing house in Wernigerode and from 1952 in Weinheim published the popular Defner calendars .

literature

• R. Larl (Ed.): A. Defner. Light landscape. Photographs from 1919-1969. 1999.

Web links

• Literature by and about Adalbert Defner in the catalog of the German National Library
• History of the publisher
• Website of the Defner Verlag