Franz Grasser
Franz Grasser (born March 26, 1911 in Wörishofen , † November 13, 1944 in Novorossijsk ) was a German photographer .
Life
Grasser was born in Bad Wörishofen and attended a private high school there . He learned the photography trade from his uncle Othmar Rutz (1879–1961), who ran a photo and souvenir shop in St. Moritz, Switzerland . From 1936 Grasser worked as an on- board photographer , a sub-genre of travel photography , for the Hamburg company Carl Müller & Son . His first trips took him to the north with the Monte Olivia . Shortly thereafter, he was used by the Hamburg South American Steamship Company (HSDG) in the South American service. In 1937/38 he was ordered on a world tour liner that crossed the oceans for Hapag from 1936 to 1938 .
With the beginning of the Second World War , German passenger shipping came to a standstill and with it Grasser's activity as an on-board photographer. In the spring of 1942, Grasser was drafted and initially stationed in Holland . He came to Ukraine around 1943, and on November 13, 1944, Grasser died as a prisoner of war in Novorossiysk on the Black Sea .
plant
In 2009, Grasser's photographic estate came from private ownership to the Deutsche Fotothek department of the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB). In addition to numerous black-and-white negatives, it also includes a large pool of Agfacolor slides with individually undated photographs of voyages from 1936 to 1939.
literature
- Jens Bove, Ulrike Keppler: Images of the Stranger. Photographs by Oswald Lübeck , Franz Grasser and Hans Schomburgk , in: Making Pictures. Photography as a practice . Exhibition catalog. Edited by Bertram Kaschek, Jürgen Müller and Wilfried Wiegand in collaboration with Jens Bove. Dresden: University collections art + technology in the ALTANAGalerie 2010, pp. 69–82.
- Franz Grasser. Around the world by ship and color film. Photographs 1937 to 1939. Edited by Jens Bove in collaboration with the Deutsche Fotothek / Sächsische Landesbibliothek - State and University Library Dresden. “Archive of the photographers”, vol. 2. Husum: Verlag der Kunst Dresden 2018, ISBN 978-3-86530-246-5
Web links
- Pictures by Franz Grasser in the Deutsche Fotothek
- Information on Franz Grasser in the Deutsche Fotothek
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grasser, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Woerishofen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 13, 1944 |
| Place of death | Novorossiysk |