Elfriede Reichelt

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Elfriede Klara Emma Reichelt (born January 30, 1883 in Breslau , † August 22, 1953 in Grünwald near Munich ) was a German art photographer . In her time she was one of the most famous professional photographers in Germany.

Life

Elfriede Klara Emma Reichelt came to Breslau on January 30, 1883 as the second of three daughters of the businessman Oswald Reichelt and Emma Reichelt, née. Quarrel, to the world. The father ran a china shop in the main shopping street in Wroclaw.

Elfriede Reichelt was one of the first women to study from 1906 to 1908 at the Munich "Teaching and Research Institute for Photography" and was a student of the well-known German-American pictorialist Frank Eugene .

After completing her training, the photographer returned to her Silesian homeland to open a studio for artistic portrait photography in Wroclaw . Until the early 1930s, the professional photographer portrayed both the supraregional celebrities of the time and well-known Wroclaw personalities, who often came from the academy and local collectors and aristocrats.

Landscape, still life and nudes were also among her subjects.

Reichelt was allowed to portray Wilhelm II and his family in exile in the Netherlands in the 1920s. A large number of her portrait photos are inventoried in the Deutsche Fotothek . Among them, for example, one that shows the ex-monarch with his little stepdaughter Henriette (1918–1972). It is titled “Doorn. Kaiser Wilhelm II with Princess Henriette Schoenaich-Carolath in her arms ”. Another portrait photo of Elfriede Reichelt shows Henriette von Schönaich-Carolath with the family dog: "Princess Henriette von Schoenaich-Carolath with the shepherd dog" Arno "". This was shown, among other things, in Reichelt's exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Breslau in 1925 and published in the illustrated weekly supplement of the Schlesische Zeitung.

She took part in important photo exhibitions of the era and published her pictures in renowned specialist journals. The photographer was a member of the Deutscher Werkbund and the Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner (GDL).

In 1927 she married the Ulm industrialist Hans Wieland and retired from active professional photography in the mid-1930s. After a few years in Ulm, Reichelt lived in Grünwald near Munich after separating from her husband in 1936 .

She lived there in a large house with a housekeeper and a gardener. During the war years, when her property was also bombed, she took in her great niece Dörte Schreiber there from 1941 to 1943. Elfriede Reichelt had been suffering from bladder cancer for the past few years .

Web links

literature

  • Verena Faber: Elfriede Reichelt (1883-1953). Studio photography between tradition and modernity: With a list of works. Dissertation, LMU Munich: Faculty of History and Art, 2011 (online at: LMU Munich )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Verena Faber: Elfriede Reichelt (1883-1953). Studio photography between tradition and modernity: With a list of works. Dissertation, LMU Munich: Faculty of History and Art, 2011, p. 11
  2. ↑ a b Gasteig, Culture for Munich: The photographic work of Elfriede Reichelt (1883–1953) - Treasures from the photography collection of the Munich City Museum ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 23, 2014) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gasteig.de
  3. ^ Deutsche Fotothek , photos by Elfriede Reichelt (accessed on 23 August 2014)
  4. ↑ Elfriede Reichelt around 1925: “Doorn. Kaiser Wilhelm II with Princess Henriette Schoenaich-Carolath in her arms ”. Münchner Stadtmuseum, photography collection, signature / inventory no .: FM-2005 / 384.358.o Treated in: Verena Faber (2011): Elfriede Reichelt (1883-1953). Studio photography between tradition and modernity. Dissertation, LMU Munich. Vol. 2, Catalog raisonné, No. 472.
  5. ↑ Portrait photo of Elfriede Reichelt in the Deutsche Fotothek, around 1925, title: "Princess Henriette von Schoenaich-Carolath with shepherd" Arno "", Munich City Museum, photography collection, signature / inventory number: FM-2005 / 384.99. Treated in: Verena Faber 2011, Catalog raisonné, No. 436
  6. ↑ Illustrated weekly supplement of the Schlesische Zeitung , No. 49 (Saturday, December 5, 1925), p. 2: "From an exhibition of photographs by Elfriede Reichelt in the Museum of Fine Arts in Breslau."
  7. ↑ Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München on Elfriede Reichelt and Verena Faber's dissertation on her (accessed on August 23, 2014)
  8. ↑ Elfriede Reichelt - Breslau portrait photography between 1910 and 1930 ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Search advertisement from Verena Bader, February 16, 2009 (accessed on August 23, 2014)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.breslau-wroclaw.de
  9. ↑ Verena Faber: Elfriede Reichelt (1883-1953). Studio photography between tradition and modernity: With a list of works. Dissertation, LMU Munich: Faculty of History and Art, 2011, p. 33
personal data
SURNAME Reichelt, Elfriede
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reichelt, Elfriede Klara Emma (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art photographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1953
Place of death Grünwald near Munich