Gerti German

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Gerti Deutsch (born December 19, 1908 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died December 9, 1979 in Leamington Spa , United Kingdom ) was an Austro-British photographer .

Life

Growing up as the only child of a Jewish family, she began studying at the Vienna Music Academy at the age of 16 . However, she was unable to achieve her career goal of being a pianist due to neuritis , so she turned to photography . She received her photographic training from 1933 to 1934 at the Graphic Education and Research Institute in Vienna.

After stays in Paris and London - she believed that she was being taken more seriously as a woman there than in her home country - Gerti Deutsch returned briefly to Vienna, but then moved permanently to London because of the increasingly bad climate for Jews and the better job prospects. In 1936 she had her first exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Association in London, a forerunner of the Austrian Cultural Forum , and in 1938 she began to work as a freelance photojournalist and editorial photographer for the Picture Post , whose deputy editor-in-chief Tom Hopkinson married her that same year. The two daughters Nicolette (today: Nicolette Roeske) and Amanda come from this marriage.

In the period between 1937 and the early 1960s, when she retired from photography and left London in 1969 to live in Salzburg , she produced numerous photo reports - first for the Picture Post, after which it was closed in 1957. a. in Nova , Holiday , Queen , Harper's Bazaar and The Tatler and the Swiss magazines Atlantis and L'Oeil . Her important reports include a .: Your first day in England (1938) about the refugee transports of Jewish children to England and your documentation of occupied post-war Vienna (1948). In the 1950s she often cooperated with the photographer Inge Morath, who also emigrated from Austria . In Deutsch's estate there are numerous photographs signed by both photographers; Unfortunately, nothing is known about the exact extent of the cooperation. The estate also contains several drafts of unrealized book projects, preserved in the form of maquettes . Because of her great love for music, she repeatedly portrayed greats in the music world such as Yehudi Menuhin , Benjamin Britten , Arturo Toscanini , Wilhelm Furtwängler , Herbert von Karajan or Irmgard Seefried , often in Salzburg or Vienna.

During her lifetime, Gerti Deutsch had two major exhibitions: the first in 1957 about Austria in the “Austrian Institute”, the second in 1962 about Japan in the “Trade Fair” in the London Olympic Exhibition Center. After their rediscovery there was an exhibition in the Austrian Cultural Forum in London (February to May 2010) and in Berlin (January 2011), followed by a more extensive one in the Galerie Fotohof in Salzburg (June and July 2011). There is currently no complete list of the works by Gerti Deutsch.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Kurt Kaindl. "The photographer Gerti Deutsch. Works 1935-1965". 2011 Fotohof edition, Salzburg. ISBN 978-3-902675-54-5 . (published in German and English edition)
  • Iris Meder, Andrea Winklbauer. Shooting girls. Jewish photographers from Vienna . Metro publishing house. Vienna, 2012. ISBN 978-3-99300-089-9 .

Web links

Commons : Gerti Deutsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anna Auer and Kunsthalle Wien: Übersee. Flight and emigration of Austrian photographers 1920-1940 . Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien. 1997. p. 259.
  2. ↑ a b c d Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.camdennewjournal.com
  3. ↑ Nicolette Roeske, Amanda Hopkinson. Introduction to the brochure accompanying the exhibition "Photographs by Gerti Deutsch" at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London. 2010. p. 6
  4. ^ Amanda Hopkinson, "Gerti Deutsch of Vienna". In: Kurt Kaindl. "The photographer Gerti Deutsch. Works 1935-1965". 2011 Fotohof edition, Salzburg. ISBN 978-3-902675-54-5 . P. 9f.
  5. ↑ Sabine Coelsch-Foisner. Gerti Deutsch - writing life with pictures ". In: Kurt Kaindl." The photographer Gerti Deutsch. Works 1935–1965 ". 2011 Fotohof edition, Salzburg. ISBN 978-3-902675-54-5 . P. 138.
  6. ^ Wolf Suschitzky : Preface to the brochure accompanying the exhibition "Photographs by Gerti Deutsch" in the Austrian Cultural Forum in London. 2010. p. 2
  7. ↑ Nicolette Roeske, Amanda Hopkinson. Introduction to the brochure accompanying the exhibition "Photographs by Gerti Deutsch" at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London. 2010. pp. 6 and 7
  8. ↑ Amanda Hopkinson. "Gerti Deutsch of Vienna". In: Kurt Kaindl. "The photographer Gerti Deutsch. Works 1935–1965". 2011 Fotohof edition, Salzburg. ISBN 978-3-902675-54-5 . P. 18.
  9. ^ A b Nicolette Roeske, Amanda Hopkinson. Introduction to the brochure accompanying the exhibition "Photographs by Gerti Deutsch" at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London. 2010. p. 7
  10. ↑ Kurt Kaindl. "Free journalistic work and collaboration with Inge Morath". In: Kurt Kaindl. "The photographer Gerti Deutsch. Works 1935–1965". 2011 Fotohof edition, Salzburg. ISBN 978-3-902675-54-5 . P. 82.
  11. ↑ Sabine Coelsch-Foisner. Gerti Deutsch - writing life with pictures ". In: Kurt Kaindl." The photographer Gerti Deutsch. Works 1935-1965 ". 2011 Fotohof edition, Salzburg. ISBN 978-3-902675-54-5 . P. 138.
  12. ↑ Kurt Kaindl. "The photographer Gerti Deutsch. Works 1935-1965". 2011 Fotohof edition, Salzburg. ISBN 978-3-902675-54-5 . P. 99 and p. 71.
  13. ^ Klaus Honnef, Frank Weyers. And they ... had to leave Germany . Cologne: Prague. 1997, p. 132.
  14. ↑ Brochure accompanying the exhibition "Photographs by Gerti Deutsch" at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London. 2010.
  15. ↑ http://www.fotohof.at/content.php?id=24&ausstellung=331&details=1
  16. ^ Wolf Suschitzky, preface to the brochure accompanying the exhibition "Photographs by Gerti Deutsch" at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London. 2010. p. 3
  17. ↑ http://www.fotohof.at/content.php?id=27&ausstellung=331&details=1
  18. ↑ http://www.dasverborgenemuseum.de/ausstellungen/ausstellung/gerti-deutsch-jeanne-mandello-16
personal data
SURNAME German, Gerti
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian photographer and photo journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1979
Place of death Leamington Spa