Georg Pettendorfer
Georg Pettendorfer (born October 31, 1858 in Türkheim , † September 27, 1945 in Munich ) was a German photographer who lived and worked in Munich.
Life
Georg Pettendorfer was born on October 31, 1858, the third of seven children in Türkheim. His father was the chief magistrate Alois Pettendorfer (1824–1895) from Mödingen , his mother Magdalena Pettendorfer, b. Settele, from Türkheim . From 1871 to 1875 Georg Pettendorfer attended the trade school in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate , where his father was a district judge. Nothing is known about his professional training or early professional activity. On January 31, 1894, he moved to Munich, where his parents now also lived.
On March 1, 1895, Georg Pettendorfer started his own business. He took over the photo studio from Max Stettmeyer in the rear building at Zweibrückenstrasse 5. His father, Franz Xaver Stettmayr, had founded this studio in 1859 on Oberanger. Apparently this studio had such a reputation that Georg Pettendorfer only continued it under the name "Max Stettmeyer's Successor". It wasn't until around 1905 that he added his own name without ever giving up the name Stettmeyer. In addition to taking his own photographs, Pettenkofer also offered services for amateur photographers such as the sale of coated drying plates , the development of negatives and the production of prints . An important pillar of the company was also the production and sale of postcards with Munich views.
In 1902 Georg Pettendorfer acquired a second company, a blueprint company. In the building boom of the Prince Regent era, this company flourished with the duplication of construction plans. However, due to the decline in construction activity during World War I , Pettendorfer had to give up this establishment in 1916.
Georg Pettendorfer was never married. He lived with two of his sisters at Hochbrückenstrasse 5.
At the end of the 1930s, Georg Pettendorfer, now around 80 years old, gave up photography. On January 20, 1944, he moved (perhaps due to an evacuation measure) to live with his sister Mathilde in Kirchseeon. After the end of the Second World War , he returned to Munich, where he died on September 27, 1945.
Act
While the Stettmeyer Atelier mainly took portraits , Georg Pettendorfer focused more on architectural photography . His importance for Munich is primarily based on the fact that, unlike his contemporaries, he did not primarily photograph the architecturally significant buildings in Munich, but rather bourgeois Munich.
On the one hand, there were economic reasons. With the motto "Postcards from any house", Pettendorfer opened up a new group of customers. At first he distributed postcards of Munich town houses to their owners and tenants, and received repeat orders from them.
On the other hand, he tried to use his photographs to compile as comprehensive a picture of the old town and the outskirts as possible and to circulate it in the form of postcards. Recordings made over four decades also documented the gradual change in the cityscape.
In this interest in the documentation of the Munich cityscape, Georg Pettendorfer was connected to the Munich comedian Karl Valentin , who himself put together an extensive postcard collection of old Munich motifs and from whose estate numerous views of Pettendorfers have come down to us. In a 1937 letter to Max Amann , then Reichsleiter for the press , Karl Valentin described Georg Pettendorfer as the most reliable source of Munich's architectural history.
Legacy
Pettendorfer's work is only partially preserved. How many of the glass negatives were destroyed in World War II cannot be determined. Nevertheless, the works that have survived form by far the most complete documentation of prewar bourgeois Munich, which was almost completely destroyed in the Second World War .
The glass negatives still in existence today come mainly from two holdings: a collection of glass negatives and contact prints from the city archive , which form a representative cross-section of Munich cityscapes, and a glass plate collection from the Munich city museum , which was only identified as coming from Pettendorfer in 1988. In addition, prints and postcards have been preserved in various private collections. a. in Karl Valentin's postcard collection in the Valentin Museum . From 1989–1991, Richard Bauer , the director of the city archives , published a selection in the form of three illustrated books from these holdings . Heinrich Dollinger's book “Die Münchner Straßenennamen” is also illustrated with 72 photos from the Pettendorfer collection of the Munich City Archives.
literature
- Eva Graf, Richard Bauer (ed.): The city photographer. Georg Pettendorfers Views of Munich 1895–1935; The city center. Hugendubel, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-88034-447-7 .
- Eva Graf, Richard Bauer (Ed.): City and suburb. Munich architecture, situations and scenes 1895–1935; The north and northwest. Hugendubel, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-88034-494-9 .
- Eva Graf, Richard Bauer (ed.): Left and right of the Isar. Pictures from upper and lower middle class Munich 1895–1935. Hugendubel, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-88034-534-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richard Bauer (Ed.): Der Stadtfotograf, p. 10.
- ^ Hans Dollinger : The Munich street names . 6th, updated edition. Südwest Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-517-08370-4 . ( Online excerpt, pdf ( Memento from December 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ))
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pettendorfer, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Türkheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1945 |
| Place of death | Munich |