Aura Hertwig

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Photo work by Aura Hertwig: Lovis Corinth in Berlin 1904

Aura Hertwig (born June 6, 1861 in Posen as Aurelie Antoinette Paschke ; died September 28, 1944 in Lossow ) was a German photographer . After their marriage, she also called herself Aura Hertwig-Brendel.

Life

Kurt Kroner and Ella Kroner (1909)
Photography by Arthur Schnitzler
Emanuel von Seidl , 1906

Around 1900 she began to work as an art photographer in Berlin , where she photographed Gerhart Hauptmann and Lovis Corinth ; In Vienna she also took photos in literary circles, including Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Arthur Schnitzler and Hermann Bahr . She was a member of several photographic associations , including the Free Photographic Association Berlin , the Dresden Society for the Promotion of Amateur Photography and, from 1903, an external member of the Free Association of Amateur Photographers Hamburg . She married the painter Karl Alexander Brendel on October 29, 1910 in Charlottenburg . Around 1912 she ran a studio at Hardenbergstrasse 24. She subsequently lived with her husband in Buschmühle near Frankfurt (Oder) . After her death entry at the Lossow registry office, she died at the age of 83 on September 28, 1944 in her apartment in Lossow, Lebus district , now part of Frankfurt (Oder). Cardiac insufficiency is given as the cause of death.

gallery

literature

  • Journal: "The Art in Photography, Volume IV, 1900, Delivery 2", Berlin 1900, published by Martin Oldenbourg
  • Photographische Rundschau and photographisches Centralblatt, magazine for friends of photography, edited and directed by Dr. R. Neuhaus and F. Matthies-Masuren with the participation of outstanding specialists, 18th year, printed and published by Wilhelm Knapp, Halle a. S. 1904, issue 5
  • Photographische Rundschau and photographisches Centralblatt, magazine for friends of photography, edited and directed by Dr. R. Neuhaus and F. Matthies-Masuren with the participation of outstanding specialists, 19th year, printed and published by Wilhelm Knapp, Halle a. P. 1905
  • Exhibition catalog for art photography around 1900 in Germany, Stuttgart 1982, pp. 57–60
  • Janet E. Buerger: "The Last Decade: The Emergence of Art Photography in the 1890s", Rochester 1984, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, ISBN 0-935398-09-0
  • Photo history 27/1988, p. 27
  • Exhibition catalog art photography around 1900, The Ernst Juhl Collection, Hamburg 1989, p. 231

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Schnitzler mentions in his diary on March 9, 1903, February 16, 1904, November 25, 1905, and March 9, 1906 that he had himself photographed by her.
  2. ↑ Document No. 13/1944 of September 28, 1944
  3. ↑ Life and death dates from the kind information provided by the Frankfurt (Oder) City Archives, June 9, 2016

Web links

Commons : Aura Hertwig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Hertwig, aura
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paschke, Aurelie Antoinette (full name); Hertwig-Brendel, Aura (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Poznan , Germany
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1944
Place of death Lossow , Germany