Else Thalemann

Else Dorothea Thalemann (born March 29, 1901 in Berlin as Else Dorothea Moosdorf , † October 19, 1984 in Mölln ) was a German photographer . She became known through industrial and plant photography.

biography

Else Thalemann grew up as the daughter of Otto Moosdorf and his wife Clara in affluent circumstances in Berlin-Treptow . She attended a lyceum there , but dropped out of school before graduation . At the age of 20 she married Wilhelm R. Thalemann. He was a son of her father's cousin. Their first son Wolfgang was born in 1923 and their daughter Brigitte was born a year later. The family then moved into a specially built house in Zeuthen .

Photographic career

Between 1926 and 1928 Thalemann learned photography in a Berlin studio . Her motifs were primarily scenes from everyday life . When Thalemann moved to Berlin-Wilmersdorf with her husband and two children in 1930 , she set up her first own studio with a darkroom there.

During her photographic development, Thalemann made advertising shots for the Berlin photo agency Mauritius as well as shots of landscapes and various scenes of everyday life . During this time she got to know the writer and biosophore Ernst Fuhrmann . He accompanied Thalemann on trips to France , Greece , Spain and Italy . Thalemann always captured her impressions photographically.

From 1934 Thalemann also worked professionally with Fuhrmann. He wrote the text for a book entitled “The Miracle of the Plant”, and she was responsible for the 112 photos. It was important to Fuhrmann that she highlighted the “characteristics” of a plant and emphasized its structure. Thalemann also worked as a carter's assistant for the Folkwang Auriga archive in Essen .

After Fuhrmann emigrated to the USA in 1938 , Else Thalemann went to Switzerland . She lived there for half a year in the anthroposophical Rudolf Steiner Foundation in Dornach and returned to Berlin in 1939 . At that time she hardly took any photos and instead began to devote herself to painting .

In 1945 Else Thalemann divorced her husband and moved to Freiburg . There, in 1946, she accepted an order from a publisher to draw flowers for a lexicon. Thalemann also made many trips, especially often to Greece. This resulted in a brochure about Greek monasteries and saints of the Eastern Church , which she published under her maiden name Dorothea Moosdorf .

In 1980 Thalemann moved to Mölln near Hamburg . She died on October 19, 1984 while traveling in Lauterbach Abbey . Else Thalemann was 83 years old.

estate

In general, little is known about Thalemann's works. This is primarily due to the fact that much of her work has been ascribed to others. In addition, the Allied bombs destroyed Else Thalemann's Berlin studio during the Second World War . Most of their photographic material fell victim to the flames.

Exhibitions

1993: Else Thalemann: Industrial and Plant Photographs around 1930 , Das Verborgene Museum , Berlin
2020, February 2 - May 3: Paris 1930. Avant-garde photography , Chemnitz art collections

literature

Else Thalemann: Industrial and Plant Photographs of the 20s and 30s (Exhibition catalog: Das Verborgene Museum , Berlin , 6.5. – 27.6.1993) Paperback - 1963

Renate Bäuerlein, Angelika Lübcke, Christina Rhein, Waltraud Schade: women's mosaic. Biographies of women from the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick. 1st edition. trafo Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89626-343-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Renate Bäuerlein, Angelika Lübcke, Christina Rhein, Waltraud Schade: Frauenmosaik. Biographies of women from the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick . 1st edition. trafo Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89626-343-9 , p. 240 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Marion Beckers, Elisabeth Moortgat: Else Thalemann. Industrial and plant photographs from the 20s and 30s . Ed .: Das Verborgene Museum. 1st edition. Berlin 1993, p. 3 .
↑ Else Thalemann. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
↑ Else Thalemann. March 2, 2016, accessed February 6, 2020 .
↑ The Highlights of Photography. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
^ Paris 1930. Photography of the avant-garde. February 3, 2020, accessed February 10, 2020 .
^ Marion Beckers, Elisabeth Moortgat: Else Thalemann: Industrial and plant photographs of the 20s and 30s . 1st edition. The hidden museum, 1963 ( amazon.de [accessed February 6, 2020]).

personal data
SURNAME	Thalemann, Else
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Thalemann, Else Dorothea (full name); Moosdorf, Else Dorothea (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	October 19, 1984
Place of death	Mölln

[:1-1] Renate Bäuerlein, Angelika Lübcke, Christina Rhein, Waltraud Schade: Frauenmosaik. Biographies of women from the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick . 1st edition. trafo Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89626-343-9 , p. 240 .

[:3-2] Marion Beckers, Elisabeth Moortgat: Else Thalemann. Industrial and plant photographs from the 20s and 30s . Ed .: Das Verborgene Museum. 1st edition. Berlin 1993, p. 3 .

[3] Else Thalemann. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .

[4] Else Thalemann. March 2, 2016, accessed February 6, 2020 .

[5] The Highlights of Photography. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .

[6] Paris 1930. Photography of the avant-garde. February 3, 2020, accessed February 10, 2020 .

[:0-7] Marion Beckers, Elisabeth Moortgat: Else Thalemann: Industrial and plant photographs of the 20s and 30s . 1st edition. The hidden museum, 1963 ( amazon.de [accessed February 6, 2020]).