Charlotte Rudolph

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Charlotte Rudolph (born July 11, 1896 in Dresden , † September 2, 1983 in Hamburg ) was a German photographer .

Live and act

After training with Hugo Erfurth, Charlotte Rudolph opened a photo studio in Dresden in 1924 and concentrated on portrait and dance photography. In particular, Rudolph became known through her photographs of dancers such as Gret Palucca , with whom she was close friends, Mary Wigman and Chinita Ullmann .

Her photos of the avant-garde German dancers of the 1920s and 1930s are among the most important documents of expressive dance today . In contrast to other photographers, Charlotte Rudolph did not shoot the dancers in a pose, but in action. Her pictures of Gret Palucca's jumps made a major contribution to Palucca's international fame in 1924 and were also Charlotte Rudolph's breakthrough. As a result, many women went to their studio because they were hoping for such jump pictures from Rudolph.

Charlotte Rudolph continued to work in Germany during the Nazi era, and temporarily in the USA after the Second World War . Her archives and her studio in Dresden , which she took over in 1938 after the death of Genja Jonas , were destroyed in the Second World War when Dresden was bombed on February 13, 1945, but Rudolph's works are in the archive in the German Dance Archive in Cologne, among others of the Akademie der Künste , Berlin, in the archives of the art library of the Staatliche Museen Berlin and in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library ( Hanya Holm Collection ).

Exhibitions

  • Das Lichtbild, International Exhibition, Munich 1930
  • Solo exhibition, Kunstsalon Marta Görtel, Berlin (November) 1930
  • Exhibition together with Hans Robertson , Essen and Mannheim, 1931
  • The face of the Weimar Republic, German Historical Museum Berlin, 2000
  • women lens, Foundation House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin 2001
  • Myth Dresden, German Hygiene Museum Dresden, 2006
  • Big jumps, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, 2006

literature

  • Charlotte Rudolph: dance photography . In: Schrifttanz 2 (1929), Heft 2, pp. 28-29.
  • Charlotte Rudolph: The dance-like photograph. In: Tanzgemeinschaft 2 (1930), 1st quarterly issue , pp. 4–6
  • Christiane Kuhlmann : Moving Body - Mechanical Apparatus. On the medial entanglement of dance and photography in the 1920s using the examples of Charlotte Rudolph, Suse Byk and Lotte Jacobi , Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2003.
  • Christiane Kuhlmann: Charlotte Rudolph. Dance photography 1924–1939 . Steidl, Göttingen 2004. ISBN 978-3-86521-045-6
  • Frank-Manuel Peter :  Rudolph, Charlotte Susanne. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 201 ( digitized version ).
  • Ilaria Puri Purini: Gret Palucca and Charlotte Rudolph. Promotional Strategies to Access Modernism . In: Photography & Culture 9 (2016), pp. 25–38.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Katja Erdmann-Rajski: Gret Palucca. G. Olms, 2000, ISBN 9783487111438 , p. 124. Restricted preview in Google Book Search
  2. ↑ Photos: Artistic dance, Der (Eckstein) - Chinita Ullmann: Brazilian-german genealogies. In: heuser.pro.br. June 25, 2018, accessed October 2, 2018 .
  3. ^ Susanne Beyer: Palucca. The biography . Aviva, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-932338-66-3 , pp. 105 .
personal data
SURNAME Rudolph, Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 2nd September 1983
Place of death Hamburg