Annelise Kretschmer

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Annelise Kretschmer , née Silberbach (born February 11, 1903 in Dortmund ; † August 13, 1987 there ), was a German photographer .

Life

From 1920 to 1922 Annelise Silberbach studied bookbinding and drawing at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich. She then began working as a photo assistant in the studio of the Swiss photographer Leon von Kaenel (1875–1936) in Essen , which she held until 1924. As a master student of Franz Fiedler , she came to Dresden in 1924, where she married the sculptor Sigmund Kretschmer in 1928, with whom she had four children. The parents lived an unconventional view of the family: the mother was the sole breadwinner, the father looked after the children and pursued his artistic activity.

In 1929 the family moved to Annelise's hometown Dortmund, where they opened their own studio. This makes her one of the first women photographers with her own studio in Germany. She devoted herself primarily to the portrait photography of children and cultural workers in the city, but also published regularly in magazines such as Das Atelier . In 1929 she took part in the legendary touring exhibition of the Deutscher Werkbund "Film und Foto" and in 1930 in the exhibition "Das Lichtbild" in Munich. She also traveled frequently to Paris , where she met Florence Henri and Ilse Bing . At that time, her work can be assigned to the New Objectivity style - she experimented a lot with image sections and angles.

After the seizure of power of the Nazis Annelise Kretschmer was exposed to her father Julius Silver Creek hostility and harassment because of Jewish origin. Her photo studio was smeared and she was expelled from the Society of German Photographers , to which she had belonged since 1926. Nevertheless, she passed the master's examination in 1936 and worked in the following years a. a. as a trainer. As a successful portrait photographer and mother of several times, she was largely spared further re-enactments by the Nazi regime. The financial problems resulting from professional bottlenecks were partly alleviated by the support of her wealthy parents as well as friends and influential acquaintances from the Dortmund municipal district. The family spent the last years of the war near Freiburg im Breisgau . Kretschmer's studio in Dortmund was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1944.

After the Second World War , she reopened her destroyed studio in 1950. Her husband Sigmund died in 1953. Together with her daughter Christiane, who was born in 1940, Annelise Kretschmer worked until the 1970s, mainly for customers from industry and business, who sometimes had all family members portrayed by her over the years. In the 1950s and 1960s she also photographed numerous personalities from art and culture. a. Portraits of Albert Renger-Patzsch , Gerhard von Graevenitz , Ellice Illiard and Ewald Mataré . She also worked for various magazines and made portraits of women for the newsreel . In addition, many private photos were taken showing her family and especially her children.

Honors

Since October 8, 2019, Annelise-Kretschmer-Straße on Dortmunder U has been commemorating the artist.

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Ute Eskildsen (Ed.): Profession: Photographer, Annelise Kretschmer, photographs 1927–1937. Goettingen 2003.
  • Marsha Meskimmon; Shearer West: Visions of the "New Woman": women and the visual arts in Weimar Germany . Scolar Press, 1995.
  • Annelise Kretschmer. Photographer . Exhibition catalog, ed. from Museum Folkwang, Essen 1982.
  • Annelise Kretschmer. Photographs 1922–1975 . Exhibition catalog, ed. from the Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum, Cologne. Text and concept: Thomas Linden, Cologne 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Susanne Spröer: Interview with Christiane von Königslöw, daughter of the photographer Annelise Kretschmer: "She had the talent to capture people in the picture." In: Deutsche Welle , September 16, 2016, accessed on September 26, 2016.
  2. ↑ Josée Rodrigo: Annelise Kretschmer (1903-1987). In: 365 artistes. Retrieved September 26, 2016 (French).
  3. ↑ Martina Niehaus: A street on Dortmunder U has been named after a woman who many know. In: Ruhr Nachrichten , October 8, 2019, accessed on the same day.
  4. ↑ Monica Boirar : Annelise Kretschmer - A forgotten master photographer. In: Fotointern.ch , December 4, 2016, accessed on February 26, 2018.
  5. ↑ Review 2019 to 2011 in the exhibition overview of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne, accessed on August 24, 2019.
  6. ↑ Monica Boirar: Book review Annelise Kretschmer - Entdeckungen. In: SCHWARZWEISS , Oct./Nov. 2017, pp. 57–62, Tecklenborg, Steinfurt, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Kretschmer, Annelise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silberbach, Annelise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1987
Place of death Dortmund