Carl Dransfeld

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Chilehaus in Hamburg

Carl Dransfeld (born November 11, 1880 in Berlin , † November 9, 1941 in Hamburg ) was a German photographer and lithographer . He gained importance through his architectural photographs . Together with his brother Adolf, a painter, Carl Dransfeld ran a photo studio.

Life

In 1902, Carl Dransfeld and his brother Adolf founded the Gebr. Dransfeld photography studio in Berlin , and two years later they relocated to Hamburg. Fritz Schumacher's commission to photograph his buildings for his book Staatsbauten made the studio famous and received numerous commissions from Hamburg architects, including Fritz Höger , Hans and Oskar Gerson , Gustav Oelsner , to document their buildings.

The most famous picture was taken in March 1924 of the Chilehaus , shortly before its completion. It dramatically stages the eastern tip of the building and depicts it from a low point of view with a special lens. The Chilehaus thus became the most depicted German architectural motif of the 1920s, which was also used by many artists in their own works. The German tourism industry also used it as a popular figure abroad. Most of the euphoric reports about the office building were based on this photo alone. These impressions were far more spectacular than the daily view of the original conveyed. However, the depiction of the Dransfeld brothers alone shaped the view of the Chilehaus for decades, as the former head of Hamburg's monument preservation, Manfred F. Fischer , proves: “It was not the Chilehaus as architecture, but the photo of it that made art history. The invented reality was stronger than the reality. "

In 1928 he was able to move into his own studio in Fritz Höger's apartment building on the corner of Winterhude's market square in Hamburg-Winterhude . His brother had died the previous year and Carl continued to run the company on his own. When the house was bombed out in 1943, the glass negatives in the archive were destroyed. Around 1,300 negatives on the public buildings have been preserved and are in the Hamburg State and University Library .

Martha, Carl Dransfeld's wife, survived her husband, who died in 1941, by several years.

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Web links

Commons : Carl Dransfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  1. Digital copies of photo plates from Carl Dransfeld
  2. Carl Dransfeld - architectural photography ; all 1307 preserved image plates sorted and annotated

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Manfred F. Fischer: The Chilehaus in Hamburg. Architecture and vision. With 28 plates by Klaus Frahm, Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-7861-2299-7 , p. 81
  2. ^ Hermann Hipp: Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. History, culture and urban architecture on the Elbe and Alster . Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-1590-2 . P. 402
  3. ^ Person search for the Hamburg State Library
personal data
SURNAME Dransfeld, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1941
Place of death Hamburg