Adolf Buck

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Adolf Buck (born March 4, 1896 in Stuttgart , Kingdom of Württemberg ; † May 3, 1952 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) was a German photographer who worked in Schaan , Liechtenstein between 1932 and 1945 . As documents of contemporary history, his photo and film recordings shape the visual collective memory of Liechtenstein .

Life

Advertisement for the opening of the business in the Liechtensteiner Nachrichten of April 30, 1932

Adolf Buck was born on March 4, 1896 in Stuttgart, where he spent his school days and completed an apprenticeship as a photographer. As a young man, he had to take part in the First World War . After the end of the war, he moved to Vorarlberg in the early 1920s and ran a photo shop in Bregenz from 1922 to 1932 , where he had also married. He moved to Schaan with his wife and two sons in 1932 and reopened a photo shop there at Bahnhofstrasse 237, which he was able to expand with a photo laboratory in Bahnhofstrasse in 1937. The «Postcard Publishing House A. Buck» also belonged to his company.

In Buck's Schaaner time, in addition to portraits and wedding pictures, numerous landscape shots and photo reports as well as documentary film recordings were made, for example of the construction of the Liechtenstein inland canal or the homage of the Liechtenstein people to the new Prince Franz Josef II on May 29, 1939. His photographic work was carried out at the Liechtenstein National Exhibition of 1934 awarded the gold medal.

At the time of National Socialism in Germany , Buck was a member of the German NSDAP local group Liechtenstein. After the end of the Second World War , he was taken into French custody in Feldkirch in 1946 because he was accused of spying for German Reich agencies . However, there was no conviction.

Buck was subsequently expelled from Liechtenstein and moved to Argentina in 1950 . He settled in Buenos Aires , where he died on May 3, 1952 at the age of 56. His postcard publisher was sold in 1953 to Andreas Eberle in Triesenberg , who continued the company.

Works and exhibition

Adolf Buck's works can be found in the Liechtenstein State Archives in Vaduz , in the Schaan municipal archive and in the Ewald Eberle private archive (estate). In 1998 the gallery “domus” in Schaan showed some of his works as part of the exhibition “Adolf Buck, Peter Ospelt, Karl Steiger. Photographs - Retrospective ». The collection of postcards in the Vorarlberg State Library contains 69 landscape and city photos by Buck.

literature

  • Emanuel Vogt: Mier z Balzers. As it used to be with us . tape 3 . Vaduz 1998, p. 95 f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report on Buck's death in the Liechtenstein Fatherland on May 17, 1952
  2. ↑ Günther Meier: Prince Franz Josef II. And the people swear loyalty . In: Liechtensteiner Volksblatt . May 29, 2019 ( online [accessed July 7, 2019] with a photo of Adolf Buck).
  3. ↑ a b Buck, Adolf. Bern Office for the History of Photography, accessed on July 7, 2019 .
  4. ^ Josef Eberle: Photography. In: Historical Lexicon of the Principality of Liechtenstein .
personal data
SURNAME Buck, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart , Kingdom of Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1952
Place of death Buenos Aires , Argentina