Franz Fiedler (photographer)

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Franz Fiedler (born March 17, 1885 in Proßnitz , Austria-Hungary , † February 5, 1956 in Dresden ) was a photographer of the New Objectivity.

Life

Franz Fiedler was a student of Hugo Erfurth , was considered an eccentric during his photography apprenticeship in Pilsen from 1901 to 1904, worked in Hamburg with Rudolf Dührkoop in 1905 (again in 1912) and from 1908–1911 with Hugo Erfurth in Dresden.

He won a first prize at the World Exhibition in Turin in 1911 , exhibited in Prague in 1913 and was a member of the circle around Jaroslav Hasek and Egon Erwin Kisch . He married Erna Hauswald in Dresden in 1916 and moved into his studio at Sedanstrasse 7. Since 1919, at the same time as his friendship with Madame d'Ora , Dora Kallmus from Vienna, who was to go to Paris a little later, he began working with the 9x12 Folding camera and was one of the first professional photographers with the Leica since 1924 . After expanding his studio in 1925, he took part in the film and photo exhibition in Stuttgart in 1929 .

A significant turning point was the publication on the city of Dresden in the spirit of the New Objectivity , one of the first topographical illustrated books to be created based on the principles of the new photography.

Fiedler's studio was destroyed on February 13, 1945; only a box with exhibition photos, which he had left with his family before the chaos of war in Moravia, has been preserved. After 1945 he no longer had his own studio and lived in the GDR as an author of photo manuals. His students included the Greek photographer Nelly and the German Annelise Kretschmer .

literature

  • Dresden in pictures. Recordings by Franz Fiedler, edited by Hans Wolfgang Singer . Publishing house Dr. Hans Epstein, Vienna / Leipzig 1930 ( Orbis urbium - beautiful cities in beautiful pictures ).
  • Antonin Dufek (Ed.): Franz Fiedler: Photography / Photographs / Photographs . Moravská galerie v Brně, Brno 2005, ISBN 80-7027-136-1 , p. 169 (Czech, English, German).
  • Franz Fiedler: Photography. Technical collections of the city of Dresden. Exhibition April 19 - June 17, 2007.
  • Franz Fiedler . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 328 .

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