Eva-Maria Czakó

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Eva-Maria Czakó (born December 19, 1918 in Karlsruhe ; † June 16, 2012 in Berlin ) was a scientific photographer .

Career

After studying art history in Berlin, Marburg and Munich and an apprenticeship as a photographer in the Photo Archive Photo Marburg , Eva-Maria Czakó was employed by Professor Richard Hamann from spring 1945 to document the works of art that were brought to Marburg in the art collection point set up there as part of the restitution efforts of the Americans . In autumn 1945 she was transferred to the Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point on behalf of the American military government, which had meanwhile been established in the Museum Wiesbaden , where she and her colleague Christine Joost took pictures of the stored works of art until 1949. It provided a detailed photo report on the 200,000 art treasures recovered from the tunnels of the Merkers salt mine in Thuringia, as well as on the conservation and art-historical work to save them.

In December 1948, on the occasion of an exhibition of 43 paintings, 155 drawings and 80 etchings by Rembrandt in the Wiesbaden art collection point , Czako took the official group photo with the political guests.

From 1954 to 1963 the professional photographer worked for the German Archaeological Institute in Athens . The scientific series "Lichtbilder von Arcadien" (Lichtbilder von Arcadien), which contains images of research projects and objects from archaeological museums in Greece with a focus on sculpture, was created during this time. Among other things, Czakó photographed details of the western metopes of the Parthenon in Athens , marble components from the Acropolis Museum , a relief depicting the grape harvest of satyrs and maenads in Thessaloniki, and a Dionysian sarcophagus from Ioannina. The photographs mentioned (and others) can now be accessed in digitized form via the Arachne archaeological object database .

In 1962 Eva-Maria Czakó married Gustav Stresow , who published her work on the frieze from the temple of the healer Apollon Epikourios in Bassae , Arcadian , in which the three-dimensional connection between the sequence of images and the building became clear.

At the Munich Glyptothek , her “recordings of all the metopes of the Parthenon on the temple ruins on the Acropolis and in the British Museum, the relief frieze from the Temple of Apollo in Bassae in London and the parts of the Aegine sculptures in Aegina and Athens were impressive. She has to be considered the best sculpture photographer of her generation. "

Topographical recordings showed conditions on site that were soon to change. The view from the Parthenon over a still limited Athens, landscapes in Parnassus , in front of Mount Olympus, in the plain of Argos, at the height above the Delphic Phocis, to which no expressway leads yet, proved the ancient harmony of architecture and nature.

Czakó worked for the great archaeologists of their time such as Walter-Herwig Schuchhardt and Christos Karusos . It dedicated magnificent photographs of Greek gems to Ernst Buschor , Emil Kunze "Corinthian helmets" and a photographic documentation of the finds in the workshop of Phidias at Olympia . In 1994 her works were exhibited in the Antikensammlungen at Königsplatz in Munich.

Works

  • Material recordings from work for art restitution in the photo library of the Central Institute for Art History, Munich
  • Archaeological recordings in the photo library of the German Archaeological Institute, Athens
  • Catalog, returned masterpieces from the possession of the Berlin museums, picture section, Central Collecting Point, Wiesbaden autumn - winter 1948
  • Reproduction by Fritz Winter, Große Landschaft, 1951, Das Werk, vol. 39, Basel 1952, p. 276
  • Greek gems . (Picture part), Insel Verlag, Wiesbaden 1957 ( Insel-Bücherei 612/1)
  • Charline Hofkes-Brukker, Alfred Mallwitz, The Bassai frieze in the originally planned arrangement, Munich 1975
  • View of Greece, photographs 1954–1963, Munich 1994
  • Photos from Arcadia and a bucolic drawing by Picasso, auction catalog, Munich 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personnel files in the archive of the Photo Archive Photo Marburg
  2. ↑ United States, National Archives and Records Administration, M1947, “Ardelia Hall Collection”, Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point, 1945–1952, Washington 2008 (PDF; 147 kB)
  3. ↑ Richard F. Howard, US Returns German Art, Information Bulletin, Wiesbaden Collecting Point, November 2, 1948, p. 16 (PDF; 2.7 MB)
  4. ^ Theodore A. Heinrich, Rembrandt Exhibition, Information Bulletin, Wiesbaden Collecting Point December 14, 1948 (PDF; 2.6 MB)
  5. ^ Eva Czako in the Arachne database , as of July 2013.
  6. ^ Klaus Vierneisel, View of Greece, Munich 1994, p. 7
  7. ^ The painter Fritz Winter. Article by Werner Haftmann with photos by EM Czakó, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Czakó, Eva-Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Czakó-Stresow, Eva-Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scientific photographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 2012
Place of death Berlin