Germaine Krull

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Germaine Krull (born January 29, 1897 , according to some sources November 20, 1897, in Posen-Wilda , † July 31, 1985 in Wetzlar ) was a German-Dutch photographer , war correspondent and hotel manager.

Life

Germaine Louise Krull, who was born in the then Prussian province of Posen , moved to Schwabing with her mother in 1912 . In 1915 she entered the teaching and research institute for photography, chemistry, collotype and engraving (most recently: State Academy for Photo Design Munich ). During the First World War , she opened her first photo studio in 1917. Her famous portrait of Kurt Eisner was made during the November Revolution . Her connection to the communist revolutionaries, who proclaimed the Bavarian Soviet republic in 1919 , earned her expulsion from Bavaria in 1920.

After working in post-revolutionary Moscow , where she was arrested by the secret police and subjected to a sham execution, in Berlin and Amsterdam , she lived mainly in Paris in the following years. There she fell in love with a woman named Elsa and finally married the Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens on April 2, 1927 after Elsa had left Paris.

Her photographic work focused on experimental nude photography and advertising photography . She has published in various magazines such as Voilà , Bifur and VU . In her first book "Métal" , published in 1928, she dealt with the miracles made of steel , the evidence of the advancing technical revolution. Krull kept in close contact with other photographers and artists living in Paris such as Man Ray , Sonia and Robert Delaunay , Eli Lotar and André Kertész .

After the outbreak of World War II , Krull lived temporarily in Brazil and Africa, where she worked for the organization France Libre . As one of the first female war correspondents , she went to Indochina in 1946 . Between 1947 and 1966 she worked as the manager of the Hotel Oriental in Bangkok. After that, Krull moved to India. Germaine Krull always paid attention to her independence and lived as a " citizen of the world " on three continents.

In terms of photography, Germaine Krull can be assigned to the Bauhaus- initiated direction of “ New Seeing ”. Your artistic estate is looked after by the Folkwang Museum in Essen .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1967: Musée du Cinéma, Palais Chaillot, Paris
  • 1977: Germaine Krull: Photographs 1922–1966, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
  • 1999: Germaine Krull: Avant-garde as Adventure, Folkwang Museum, Essen
  • 2015: Germaine Krull, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris
  • 2015: Germaine Krull - Photographs , Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin October 15, 2015 to January 31, 2016

Publications

  • 100 x Paris. Berlin 1929
  • Bangkok. Siams City of Angels. London 1964, together with Dorothea Melchers.
  • Tales from Siam. London 1966, with Dorothea Melchers.
  • Métal. Folio edition with 64 loose plates produced using collotype printing, text by Florent Fels; Librairie des Arts Décoratifs, Paris 1927–1928; New edition as facsimile; edited by Ann and Jürgen Wilde, Zülpich 2003.
  • Adolf Hallmann: Paris under 4 årstider. Albert Bonniers Förlag, Stockholm 1930, with approx. 46 photographs by Germaine Krull.
  • Le Valois. Photographs by Germaine Krull, text: Gérard de Nerval, Firmin-Didot & Cie, Paris undated (printing of the photographs in rotogravure)
  • VOIR La Route Paris Biarritz series , photos by Germaine Krull, text: Claude Farrière. Editions Jacques Haumont, Paris 1931. (Various illustrated covers.)
  • Chiengmai , photographs by Germaine Krull, text by Lotus; Edition of the Oriental Hotel, Bangkok, The Assumption Printing Press, Bangkok 1948.
  • Photographes Nouveaux - Germaine Krull. Librairie Gallimard, Paris, 1931.

literature

  • Christian Bouqueret (ed.): Germaine Krull Photography 1924–1936. Le Musée Réattu, Arles 1988.
  • Michel Frizot: Germaine Krull. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2015, ISBN 978-3-7757-3999-3 .
  • Klaus Honnef (ed.): Germaine Krull, photographs 1922–1966. Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn 1977, ISBN 3-7927-0364-5 .
  • Germaine Krull. Cinémathèque Française, Paris 1967.
  • Kim Sichel: Avant-garde as an adventure. Life and work of the photographer Germaine Krull. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-88814-934-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c biography on fembio.org , accessed October 15, 2015
  2. ↑ Kurt Eisner, photo by Germaine Krull, early 1918, as a postcard with the imprint: “Ministerpräsident des Volksstaates Bayern”
  3. ^ Germaine Krull: The woman Man Ray named his equal. The Guardian , June 4, 2015.
  4. ↑ Hans Schoots: Living dangeroously: a Biography of Joris Ivens , p. 32. Amsterdam University Press, 2000, accessed April 9, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Photography of the 20th Century. Taschen, Cologne 1996, p. 362.
  6. ^ Germaine Krull in the Gropius-Bau: Revolutionary photographer. Deutschlandradio Kultur from October 14, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Krull, Germaine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krull, Germaine Louise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Dutch photographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1897 or November 20, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Poznan-Wilda
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1985
Place of death Wetzlar