Else Seifert

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Else Seifert, self-portrait with a filter held in front of the left eye. In the background a photograph of the Elbe island in front of Pillnitz Castle , 1954

Else Seifert (born December 9, 1879 in Dresden ; † June 23, 1968 there ) was an architectural photographer from Dresden .

Life

Else Seifert was born in Dresden in 1879 as the daughter of the businessman Karl Robert Seifert (d. 1880) and his wife Klara Amalie Juliane (d. 1918). She attended elementary school for eight years, then the Froebel seminar for a year . A brief training in accounting followed . She worked as an educator in Kassel for three years and in commercial practice for ten years. From 1909 to 1924 she worked as a trade teacher at the municipal girls' trade and trade school in Dresden. During the First World War she got involved as a volunteer child welfare worker.

She came to photography by chance. She got her first phone without having asked for it. Already in 1909 Else Seifert had turned to amateur photography and joined the Dresden Photographic Society. In her free time she studied two semesters of practical photography and one semester of architecture at the Technical University of Dresden . Still lifes in the style of New Objectivity were created .

In 1924 she went to Italy. She earned her living there as a nurse until 1925, at the same time she began taking photographs professionally. One result of these efforts was her "Capri Book" with texts by Heinrich Lersch , which was published in 1926 by Wolfgang Jess Verlag in Dresden.

In April 1930 she was commissioned to document the 1930/1931 hygiene exhibition in Dresden. In 1936 she took photos here as part of the Reichsgartenschau .

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When Else Seifert died in Dresden on June 23, 1968, her own attempts to put her photographic estate in safe hands while she was still alive had failed. After her death in 1969, a large part of her work (approx. 960 negatives and 1080 positives) was given to the German Photo Library of the Saxon State Library . On the occasion of her 125th birthday in 2004, the Deutsche Fotothek began to process the estate, which can be viewed on the local website today.

literature

  • Exhibition review in: DNN November 9, 2004
  • Katja Dannowski: The work of the Dresden photographer Else Seifert , in: Dresdner Geschichtsbuch 16, pp. 181–207
  • Artist on the Dresden Elbe slope. Volume 2, p. 428, Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag

Web links

Commons : Else Seifert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Katja Dannowski: The work of the Dresden photographer Else Seifert , in: Dresdner Geschichtsbuch 16, Ed .: Stadtmuseum Dresden ; Dresden 2011, p. 197
  2. ↑ Katja Dannowski: The work of the Dresden photographer Else Seifert , p. 201.
  3. ^ Katja Dannowski: The work of the Dresden photographer Else Seifert , p. 183.
personal data
SURNAME Seifert, Else
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seifert, Clothilde Elsa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architecture photographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1968
Place of death Dresden