Albert Hilscher

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Albert Hilscher (born August 19, 1892 in Hanover , † November 12, 1964 in Vienna ) was an Austrian press and sports photographer .

Life

After completing his apprenticeship as a cinema mechanic, Albert Hilscher was self-taught in photography from 1920 . Hilscher was also an active athlete. So he was European champion in diving .

Together with other photographers such as Leo Ernst , Lothar Rübelt , Wilhelm Willinger and other Austrian press photographers, he founded the organization of the Vienna press in 1924 . In 1928 he worked as a press photographer for the Austrian daily newspaper Der Abend .

Together with Leo Ernst he founded the company Ernst & Hilscher and with this was the representative of the American picture agency Wide World Photos for Austria and Eastern Europe. After the “Anschluss” , Ernst had to leave the company as a Jew, and Hilscher continued to run it on his own for the time being. In the first years of the war he worked in a press company.

Albert Hilscher died on November 12, 1964 at the age of 72 in Vienna.

Act

Hilscher is considered the leading photojournalist in the interwar period.

A large part of the photos in the picture archive of the Austrian Society for Contemporary History (ÖGZ) at the Institute for Contemporary History come from Hilscher's estate, which documented the time of the National Socialists up to the occupation from the Justice Palace fire in Vienna via the corporate state .

Hilscher's photos were also published in the illustrated magazine Der Kuckuck (1931).

literature

  • Albertina database, biography bibliography on photography in Austria
  • Otto Hochreiter: History of Photography in Austria , Volume 1, p. 314 ff.
  • Otto Hochreiter: History of Photography in Austria , Volume 2, p. 127.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Press photographers between the world wars (PDF; 626 kB) Diploma thesis by Samanta Benito - Sanchez from 2009, accessed on September 7, 2010.
  2. ^ Albert Hilscher , accessed September 7, 2010.
  3. ↑ Pictures from the western Himalayas to Austrian contemporary history in the online newspaper of the University of Vienna on August 11, 2005, accessed on September 7, 2010.

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personal data
SURNAME Hilscher, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian press photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1964
Place of death Vienna