Bernd Lohse

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Bernd Lohse (born October 5, 1911 in Dresden ; † January 26, 1996 in Burghausen ) was a German photographer , photo reporter and publicist .

Live and act

Born the son of a teacher, Lohse first studied history and journalism in Berlin . Before 1939 he worked a lot as a foreign reporter (including reports on France and Scotland ) for magazines such as the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung . He was already taking color photographs as early as 1937 .

During the Second World War , Lohse worked as a photo reporter for a propaganda company . Among other things, in July 1943 he accompanied a unit of Tiger tanks in the Citadel company with the camera. Further photos from these years show the construction of submarine bunkers on the French coast. After the beginning of the war against the Soviet Union in 1941, reports with anti-Bolshevik aims were repeatedly published by him.

In 1947 Lohse became the sole editor of the first photo magazine of the post-war period, Foto-Spiegel (since 1949 “Photo-Magazin”). At the same time he continued to work as a photo reporter. In 1951 he was the first German reporter to visit Japan after the war and took photos in Hiroshima , among other places . Further reports took him to Canada and Australia . In the 1950s and 1960s Lohse also worked as a photographer of works of ancient art and his pictures were published in numerous art books. He gave up his activity as a reporter in the mid-1950s in favor of journalism. Subsequently, he was editor of the magazine "photoblätter" for several years. From 1973 to 1976 Lohse headed the “Photo Museums” section within the German Society for Photography . In this capacity, he promoted research into the history of photography and published his own contributions to the history of photography. In 2005, his 1951 photos of Japan were shown in the Showa-kan Museum in Tokyo . Parts of his estate are in the Prussian Cultural Heritage Picture Archive in Berlin .

reception

Bernd Lohse was a photographer, publicist, photo historian and editor-in-chief of several photo magazines as well as a book producer and nestor of German post-war photography.

His travel reports and later his photo-journalistic work were particularly important. He was one of the first to demand that the history of photography must be more than a history of the technical development of the medium and also depict its cultural significance and development.

Awards

  • 1931 - First prize in the Zeiss Ikon international photo competition

Photo books

  • Harald Busch , Bernd Lohse: Gothic architecture in Europe. Frankfurt am Main 1958.
  • Gerhard Bechthold, Bernd Lohse (ed.): Our home. The district. Landscape, nature, art monuments in the vicinity of the Ruhr area. Frankfurt am Main 1958.
  • Harald Busch, Bernd Lohse: Buildings of Europe. New York 1959.
  • Harald Busch, Bernd Lohse (ed.): Architecture of the Romanesque in Europe , Text: Hans Weigert, Umschau Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1959.
  • Harald Busch, Bernd Lohse: Renaissance architecture in Europe. Frankfurt am Main 1960.
  • Harald Busch, Bernd Lohse: Baroque architecture in Europe. Frankfurt am Main 1961.
  • Harald Busch, Bernd Lohse: Baroque sculpture in Europe. Frankfurt am Main 1964.
  • People like you and me - in yesterday's world. Bernd Lohse 1935–1953. Exhibition catalog. Museum Ludwig Cologne 1989. With a foreword by Siegfried Gohr and texts by Reinhold Mißelbeck , Fritz Kempe and others.
  • Jay Ruby (Ed.): Images of the USA 1920–1940: Three European Photographers: Emil O. Hoppe, Harald Lechenperg, Bernd Lohse. Exhibition catalog. Philadelphia 1985.

Photography journalistic work

  • Georg Basner , Bernd Lohse, Niels Reuter: photography today. Frankfurt am Main 1958.
  • Bernd Lohse: Felix H. Man and the beginnings of modern photo journalism. In: The photo journalist. 4, 1965.
  • Bernd Lohse (Ed.): Hugo Erfurth 1874–1948. The photographer of the golden twenties. Seebruck 1977.
  • Christian Brandstätter (Ed.): Lothar Rübelt - Sport. The most important thing in the world. Documents from a pioneer of sports photography 1919–1939. Foreword by Bernd Lohse. Vienna 1980.
  • Highlights of photography. 30 years of photokina picture shows. The imaginary photo museum. Film as art and document. With an introduction by Bernd Lohse. Catalog of the Cologne Art Association 1980.
  • Wulf Ligges: Landscapes. With an introduction by Bernd Lohse. Cologne 1982.

Web links

Commons : Bernd Lohse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of Bernd Lohse from the lexicon WISSEN.de
  2. ^ Biography of Bernd Lohse on VAN HAM
  3. ^ Biography of Bernd Lohse in Camera, issues 7–12, CJ Bucher, 1976, p. 82
  4. ↑ Color in Photo, Kunsthalle Köln, Foto-Historama Agfa-Gevaert Leverkusen, 1981, 304 pp.
  5. ↑ Bernd Lohse in Westermanns Monatshefte, issues 1–6, 1981, p. 137
personal data
SURNAME Lohse, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer, photo reporter and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1996
Place of death Burghausen