Fritz Möller (photographer)
Fritz Möller (* 1860 in Bergen on Rügen ; † 1923 in Halle ) was a German photographer. He was mainly active in Halle. In addition to numerous portraits, he mainly created architectural photographs; he also ran an art publisher.
Life
Fritz Möller was the son of a pharmacist and originally wanted to be an actor.
According to a report in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , Möller owned the largest photo studio in Germany at the time. Around 1890 he took over Carl Höpfner's atelier, which had been founded in 1859, at Poststrasse 13 in Halle and continued to run it at this address until 1899. Then the studio moved to a new building on Theaterplatz and the address was now Alte Promenade 1 (now: Universitätsring 1). Möller advertised with awards that his predecessor Carl Höpfner had received, but also with his own successes. These included a silver medal he received in Frankfurt am Main in 1894 , a gold medal from Leipzig in 1897 and participation in the Paris World Exhibition in 1900.
Möller was married and had three children. One of his sons took over the studio in Halle.
Works
Möller's photographs were used for the illustrated book Halle at the turn of the century , which was published in 1999. Two years later, under the title The Self-Staging by the photographer Fritz Möller, a work was reissued that he had presented in 1900 at the World Exhibition as Physiognomic Studies in Paris and that had received an award at the time. In order to be able to produce this series of over 200 pictures, Möller had shaved off his beard and posed in front of the camera himself. The pictures should illustrate facial expressions and gestures of people in different moods.
In the run-up to the anniversary celebrations on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the posting of the theses, Möller recorded the life-size replica of the reformer Martin Luther , which was shown in the Marienkirche in Halle and was to be distributed as a motif on postcards.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Fritz Möller. Heightened sense of the bizarre , in: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , December 19, 2001 ( online )
- ↑ Data on www.fotorevers.eu
- ↑ See Möller's advertisement on www.photospuren.de .
- ↑ Data on www.fotorevers.eu
- ↑ A family picture can be found at www.photospuren.de .
- ^ The family of the textile merchant Heinrich Schultz on www.digiporta.net
- ↑ Petra Löffler: affective images. transcript Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-839-40267-2 , p. 152 ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ↑ Stefan Laube: From the relic to the thing. Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-050-05743-9 , p. 223 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Möller, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mountains on Rügen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1923 |
| Place of death | Halle (Saale) |