Emil Brunner (photographer)

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Photo by Emil Brunner: excavations from 1975 in the Betschwanden church

Emil Brunner (born November 10, 1908 in Diesbach ; † September 18, 1995 ) was a Swiss photographer .

Life

Brunner was the son of a throttle master (master of the spinning machines). He attended schools in Diesbach, Härkingen , Baden and Winterthur . From 1925 to 1929 he completed an apprenticeship as a ship construction draftsman at Sulzer AG in Winterthur. In addition, the works photographer Emil Wiederkehr trained him to be a photographer. After completing his apprenticeship, he photographed the clean-up work and the reconstruction of the former battlefields of the First World War in France and Belgium for six months .

In the 1930s and 1940s he ran his own photo shop in Baden and traveled all over the world as a freelance photo reporter: Iceland , Svalbard , Africa , South America , Antarctica , Alaska , Finland , Tahiti , etc. The aircraft pioneer Walter Mittelholzer brought him photography from the Plane at. In the winter of 1944/1945 he was a war reporter on the Western Front . In 1948 he moved to Braunwald .

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The reports from foreign countries and continents are countless. There are mountain photos of the passionate mountaineer from his homeland. In his oeuvre, people are very important, an example of which are photographs of the Grisons mountain children.

His photographs have appeared in Life , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Atlantis , Le Vie del Mondo, Schweizer Illustrierte , Westermanns Monatshefte , Harper's Bazaar , Holiday (Magazin), etc. Low-altitude photos from Scandinavia and the Sahara have been published in magazines around the world. His estate is at the Swiss Foundation for Photography in Winterthur (Hugger Collection).

Exhibitions

  • May 17 to September 14, 2008: Zwitserse bergkinderen. Kunsthal Rotterdam , Rotterdam, NL
  • October 5 to November 17, 2002: A thousand looks. Children's portraits by Emil Brunner. Bündner Oberland 1943/43. Bündner Kunstmuseum , Chur: traveling exhibition, including in the Chasa Jaura Museum , Valchava

literature

  • Country spirit and Jewish stamp. Memories of a Generation 1930–1945. Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85791-414-9 .
  • A thousand looks. Children's portraits by Emil Brunner. Bündner Oberland 1943/43. Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2002, ISBN 978-3-85791-410-2 .
  • Mountain children. From the archive of a photo reporter 1943/44 , Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 978-3-85791-473-7 .
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personal data
SURNAME Brunner, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss photographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Diesbach
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1995