Barbara Pflaum

Barbara Pflaum (born January 10, 1912 in Vienna as Hansi Barbara Gebhardt ; † March 24, 2002 in Vienna) was an Austrian photographer and photojournalist .

She was married to the entrepreneur Peter Pflaum , her older sister to the Nobel Prize winner Konrad Lorenz .

Career

Barbara Gebhardt attended the fashion class at the Kunstgewerbeschule of the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry from 1931 to 1934 . After her divorce, she continued her studies in the graphics class from 1948 to 1952 and began to work increasingly in photography as a commercial artist in the early 1950s. From 1955 until her retirement in 1977, Pflaum worked as a press photographer for the weekly newspaper Wochenpresse, where she provided pictures for the domestic , reporting , culture , fashion and chronicle departments . Pflaum is the author of a number of illustrated books, mostly with a connection to Vienna.

Works

• Together with Jörg Mauthe : How is Vienna? E. Hunna, Vienna 1961.
• Die Wienerin , Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 1965
• Together with Ludwig Plakolb : Wien an der Wien . Youth and People, Vienna / Munich 1971.

literature

• Wolfgang Kos (Ed.): Photo: Barbara Pflaum. Picture chronicler of the Second Republic . Brandstätter, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-902510-83-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Barbara Pflaum in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography Barbara Pflaum (PDF; 142 kB)
• Entry on Barbara Pflaum in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Exhibition in the Wien Museum
• Wien Museum: Barbara Pflaum, chronicler of an era town hall correspondence of November 15, 2006 (accessed June 14, 2010)
• Barbara Pflaum's estate is in the Austrian picture agency IMAGNO brandstätter images . The administrator of the estate is Mag. Gerald Piffl.