Charlotte Rohrbach

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Charlotte Rohrbach (born March 21, 1902 in Malschöwen near Allenstein in East Prussia ; † February 1, 1981 in Pöcking ) was a German photographer .

life and work

She received her photography training at the Lette Association in Berlin . She took photos for reports, including the first fashion photographs for “ Die Dame ” from 1934 onwards . She became famous with her recordings of Arno Breker's works .

Her photographs have been published in magazines such as Die Kunst im Third Reich and also in book form. Charlotte Rohrbach understood like no other photographer of her time how to set new standards in black and white photography. As a photographer, she has often been compared to the director Leni Riefenstahl . With her reserved manner, Rohrbach was unable to take on a similar official role during the Nazi era as her famous colleague.

After the war, she was a permanent employee at Film und Frau and chief photographer at A&W Architektur & Wohnen . Starting in 1972, Rohrbach received the order from Arno Breker editor Joe F. Bodenstein to continue to record the artistic work of the sculptor in black and white. The Marco-VG exploitation community in Bonn acquired parts of the Rohrbach archive with the right to publish all of the "art and culture documentation" photos it created.


Charlotte Rohrbach was married to the German aircraft designer Adolf Rohrbach (* 1889, † 1939). Their common grave with the stone relief Ikarus by Arno Breker is located in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf . Breker belonged to the couple's circle of friends.

Death mask Liebermann

The lifelong friendship between Charlotte Rohrbach and Breker began in the early 1930s when the young artist moved from Paris to Berlin on the advice of Max Liebermann . At Breker's request, she photographed Liebermann 's death mask , which Breker had removed from the famous painter's death room in Berlin during the Nazi era. A bronze cast of the mask is in the Jewish Museum Berlin.

Publications

  • Werner March : Reichssportfeld building . Recordings by Charlotte Rohrbach. German Art Publishing House, Berlin 1936.
  • Ewald König (Ed.): Arno Breker . Photos by Charlotte Rohrbach with an introduction by Werner Rittich. Publishing house of the German Labor Front, Paris 1943.
  • Ludwig Emanuel Reindl: Arno Breker . Recordings by Charlotte Rohrbach. Film-Foto-Verlag, Berlin; K. Giegler's bookstore, Leipzig 1944.
  • Irene von Tibus: Interiors . Introduction by Wolf von Niebelschütz . Photography by Charlotte Rohrbach. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, Berlin 1960.
  • Gustaf Nils Dorén, Heinz Groth: Long life. A collection of Chinese treasures . Photographed by Charlotte Rohrbach. Reemtsma, Hamburg 1969.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ch.Rohrbah-Archiv, 1973
  2. ^ Stahnsdorf cemetery administration, accessed 1918
  3. ↑ Museum Europäische Kunst (archive), accessed on August 22, 2020


personal data
SURNAME Rohrbach, Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Malschöwen near Allenstein , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH 1st February 1981
Place of death Poecking