Ernst Scheel

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Ernst Scheel (born January 3, 1903 in Hamburg ; died January 9, 1986 there ) was a German architecture photographer who mainly worked in northern Germany. His implementation of the work of the New Building in Hamburg during the Weimar Republic made him known.

Life

Scheel grew up in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel and completed an apprenticeship at the local court after attending secondary school on Großneumarkt. He then completed a degree as a graphic designer and typographer at the Altona School of Applied Arts and in 1924 became self-employed as a photographer in his studio on Dovenfleet.

During his studies he made friends with Rudolf Lodders , who worked for the architect Karl Schneider . Schneider took a liking to Scheel's pictures of his buildings and in the following years he placed additional orders that included not only buildings, but also models and furnished model apartments. At the end of the 1920s a monograph of Schneider's buildings was created with numerous photos by Scheel. The collaboration with Schneider ended after his dismissal as professor at the art college in 1933 due to a lack of new orders from Schneider.

For his architectural photographs, Scheel worked with a heavy plate camera with glass negatives, and he also used a Leica . From 1927 he published photo reports in various local publications ( Hamburger Fremdblatt , Hamburger Anzeiger , Hamburger Illustrierte), which made him known to a wider audience. In 1930, the journalist Hugo Sieker conducted a radio interview for NORAG in Scheel's former studio in Burchardstrasse, which was reprinted as a reconstruction in "The New Image" a little later.

The studio was from 1930 to 1943 in the building Osterstraße / Heußweg Arch.Karl Schneider ( photo: 2015 )

At the beginning of the 1930s, Scheel moved his studio into the newly built building complex Osterstraße / Heussweg, which also housed the Emelka cinema , which was documented in an expressive series of photos.

He put his training into practice by designing books and magazines in which his photos, especially from his industrial reports, were published.

Hildebrand Gurlitt , director of the Kunstverein in Hamburg , organized an exhibition of works by the Hamburg secession "Ung Hamburger Konst" in 1931 in Gothenburg , which also included photographs, some of which Scheel contributed to. In the same year an exhibition for Karl Schneider took place at the Kunstverein, which mainly included works by Scheel.

Lodders went into business for himself in the early 1930s and commissioned Scheel several times in the following years to document his work such as the ILO engine works in Pinneberg. As a works architect for Borgward , he commissioned further photos from this activity from 1934 onwards.

After 1933 Konstanty Gutschow awarded various commissions, including pictures of the cactus house and a model settlement house that had been built on the site of today's Planten un Blomen . Gutschow, who was commissioned in 1939 to redesign the banks of the Elbe as part of the expansion of Hamburg into the » Führerstadt «, had Scheel photograph several models of his designs and document the classicist buildings of the Palmaille von Scheel in the inventory, the photos were in one by Erich Elingius published book.

In addition to his reports and architectural photographs, photographs of the interiors of Schneider's model apartments and the Hamburg synagogue, which opened in 1931, were published in various publications.

Scheel was arrested by the Gestapo in 1938 and was in custody for four weeks.

In 1942 Scheel was drafted into the Wehrmacht and posted to the Ukraine, where he headed the image office of the 320th Infantry Division. In the American-English captivity, he took over the management of a hospital in Goslar until 1946.

In 1950 he married Martha Bruns, the widow of a comrade in the war, with whom he had his daughter Petra in 1953.

After the war, Scheel accompanied Bernhard Hermkes' work on the Grindel tower blocks and later on the Audimax, Kennedy Bridge , DESY and the wholesale market hall in Hamburg-Hammerbrook.

The construction company Wayss & Freytag commissioned him with the photographic documentation of some of his projects, including photos of the construction of the Stör Bridge near Itzehoe

Peter Neve was one of the last architects from whom Scheel received significant orders.

In 1974 Scheel ended his work as an architecture and industrial photographer.

He died in Hamburg in 1986.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1931 Karl Schneider special exhibition, Kunstverein Hamburg, with numerous works by Scheel.
  • 1983 Ernst Scheel - architectural photography around 1930 in Hamburg, Kunstverein Hamburg
  • 1985 Exhibition of early works in the Villa Michelsen designed by Karl Schneider, compiled by the gallery owner Elke Dröscher
  • 1992 Exhibition on the hundredth birthday of Karl Schneider in the Museum of Art and Industry in Hamburg with numerous works by Scheel
  • In May - July 2015, an exhibition of Scheel's works was shown in the Free Academy of the Arts as part of the Hamburg Architecture Summer
  • 2001 - Rudolf Lodders 1901 - 1978 An architect in the field of tension between technical progress and modern tradition
  • 2010 - From clinker brick and chrome - pictures with the tripod , Hamburg, Free Academy of the Arts, 2010
  • 2014 - Form and Construction - Four masterpieces by the Hamburg architect Bernhard Hermkes
  • In May - July 2015, an exhibition of Scheel's works was shown in the Free Academy of the Arts as part of the Hamburg Architecture Summer

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rüdiger Jopien: Partner of the artists. Ernst Scheel as a photographer of the art scene of the 1920s and 1930s in Hamburg , in Hans Bunge: Ernst Scheel. Photographer 1903–1986 , p. 241
  2. ↑ Erich Elingius (Ed.): The Palmaille in Altona. A cultural document of classicism. Trautmann, Hamburg 1938.
  3. ^ Rüdiger Joppich: partner of the artist. Ernst Scheel as a photographer of the art scene in Hamburg in the 1920s and 1930s , printed in Hans Bunge: Ernst Scheel. Photographer 1903-1986 , . Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86218-076-9 .
  4. ↑ Hans Bunge: Ernst Scheel, photographer 1903–1986 , p. 38
  5. ↑ Announcement and program. Retrieved January 14, 2016 .
  6. ↑ exhibition page R.Lodders. Retrieved January 13, 2016 .
  7. ↑ From clinker brick and chrome. Retrieved January 14, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Brochure for the 2014 exhibition. Accessed January 14, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Scheel, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1986
Place of death Hamburg