Gerhard Riebicke

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Gerhard Riebicke (born February 6, 1878 in Lausitz , † 1957 in Berlin ) was a German photographer .

Life

Riebicke spent his childhood in Switzerland. He studied in Tübingen, worked as a private tutor in Posen, and learned the technique of photography himself. In 1909 he was a press photographer in Berlin. Gradually the focus of his work shifted to sports and nudist photography (ball games, jumps, dance or bathing scenes).

As a friend of Adolf Koch , he documented his school for physical education and nude culture. Even the Laban School of Hertha Feist and other dance and gymnastics schools Hedwig Hagemann , Berte Trümpi , Mary Wigman he maintained as a chronicler of the reform movement contacts. He was represented with several examples in Hans Surén's “Man and the Sun”, 1924. After 1933 he concentrated on sports photography.

literature

  • F. Roh u. J. Tschichold, photo eye , 1929.
  • Short biography of the journalist Gerhard Riebicke. I Journalist, 7 (1957), 4, p. 24.
  • M. Koehler et al. G. Barche (ed.), The nude photo , exhib.cat. Stadtmus. Munich 1985.
  • M. Andritzky et al. Th. Rautenberg (ed.), We are naked u. call us you , 1989.
  • UE Ziegler u. U. Scheid, Naked Among Naked , 1990.
  • HM. Koetzle et al. U. Scheid, 1000 Nudes , 1994.
  • GR, photographs , exhibition cat. Gal. B. Niemann Berlin 2000.
  • J. Krichbaum, Lex. D. Photographers , 1981.
  • HM. Koetzle, Das Lex. D. Photographers, 1900 to today , 2002.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German biography: Gerhard Riebicke.
  2. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus, German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE)
personal data
SURNAME Riebicke, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riebicke, G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausitz
DATE OF DEATH 1957
Place of death Berlin