Erna Wagner-Hehmke

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Erna Wagner-Hehmke (born March 6, 1905 in Breslau ; † June 9, 1992 in Düsseldorf ) was a German photographer .

Erna Wagner-Hehmke studied photochemistry for two semesters at the University of Breslau. In 1925, together with her mentor, the photographer Anne Winterer , she opened the Hehmke-Winterer photography workshop in Düsseldorf, which she continued to run on her own from 1935. After completing the journeyman's examination with distinction, she traveled to Paris to study . There she learned the technique of coloring in Studio Lorell on Boulevard Bertier and trained in portrait photography. In 1932 she passed her master craftsman examination and in the same year married the architect Rudolf Wagner.

Wagner-Hehmke mainly devoted himself to applied photography: object photography , industrial photography and advertising photography . Her work technique is characterized by exactness in the reproduction of forms and objective imagery and can be assigned to the New Objectivity . Wagner-Hehmke photographed numerous personalities of the young Rhineland , including mother Ey , Otto Dix , Tatjana Barbakoff and Louise Dumont and she photographed works by artists such as Jankel Adler . Today, photos of these paintings are the only surviving evidence of lost or destroyed works by Adler.

Wagner-Hehmke was best known for her numerous portraits from the early days of the Federal Republic of Germany of members of parliament and officials of the young state. Her photographs of the work of the Parliamentary Council and the constitution of the Bundestag and Bundesrat in Bonn also formed the image material for political reports. She was commissioned by the North Rhine-Westphalian state government through Hermann Wandersleb .

From 1954 until her retirement, she taught at the Düsseldorf vocational school on Fürstenwall. In the 1950s to 1970s, she created images on various professions for advertising purposes on behalf of the Federal Labor Office. At the end of the 1980s, the House of History Foundation in Bonn took over 4000 photos by Wagner-Hehmke in its contemporary history collections.

Wagner-Hehmke participated repeatedly in exhibitions, including the Photokina from 1950 to 1952 . Her work has received numerous awards, including the silver and gold needle of the guild.

literature

  • Ilsabe and Gerolf Schülke (Red.): Erna Wagner-Hehmke, industrial photographs from the 30s to 50s. Exhibition cat. Eller station, Düsseldorf 1989.
  • Benedikt Wintgens: New Parliament, New Pictures? The photographer Erna Wagner-Hehmke and her view of the Bundestag, in: Andreas Biefang and Marij Leenders (eds.): The ideal parliament. Erich Salomon as a photographer in Berlin and The Hague 1928–1940, Düsseldorf 2014, pp. 293–314.

Web links

Page no longer available , search in web archives: Erna Wagner-Hehmke on the website of the House of History, Berlin@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hdg.de

swell

  1. ↑ Women's Culture Archive University of Düsseldorf , accessed on February 21, 2017
  2. ↑ Women's Culture Archive University of Düsseldorf , accessed on February 21, 2017
  3. ^ Website City of Düsseldorf: Erna Wagner-Hehmke , accessed on February 21, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Wagner-Hehmke, Erna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1992
Place of death Dusseldorf