Gotthard shoe
Gotthard Schuh (born December 22, 1897 in Schöneberg near Berlin ; † December 29, 1969 in Küsnacht ZH ) was a Swiss photographer , painter and graphic artist .
Life
Gotthard Schuh was born in Berlin as the son of Swiss parents. His father was the engineer Christian Heinrich Schuh. In 1902 the family moved to Aarau, where he attended elementary school and, from 1914, the canton school and began to paint. Otto Wyler was his first teacher. In 1916 he graduated from the trade school in Basel. In 1917/1918 Schuh was drafted as a soldier for border service.
From 1919 he lived as a painter in Basel and Geneva. After a long trip to Italy in 1920, he settled down as a painter in Munich. In 1926 he returned to Switzerland and became head of a photo shop.
After his marriage in 1927, he moved to Zurich, where he began taking photos. From 1928 to 1931 various exhibitions as a painter followed and he joined the Basel artist group “ Red-Blue ”. In 1931 the first photos were published in the Zürcher Illustrierte. In 1932 a picture exhibition followed in Paris, where he met Picasso , Léger and Braque .
From 1933 to 1937 Schuh worked as a freelance photo reporter for Zürcher Illustrierte , Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung , Paris Match and Life . His reports took him all over Europe and in 1938/1939 to Indonesia . From 1941 to 1960 he was a picture editor for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . In 1951 he founded the College of Swiss Photographers together with Werner Bischof , Walter Läubli , Paul Senn and Jakob Tuggener .
Gotthard Schuh was married to Marga Zürcher from St. Gallen from 1927 to 1939, with whom he had a son Kaspar (* 1934). In 1944 he married Annamarie Custer with who had two daughters, Claudia and Sybille. After 1960 Schuh turned back to painting.
Gotthard Schuh died in 1969 in Küsnacht on Lake Zurich.
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Schuh is considered to be a representative of a new photographic style. He was interested in everyday life and social reality, which he documented in sober, factual imagery. His photographs corresponded to the modern photo journalism, which in 1930 prevailed in the major European magazines. Schuh was also active internationally. In 1940, after a trip to Indonesia, his highly acclaimed book «Islands of the Gods» was published.
His estate is at the Swiss Photo Foundation in Winterthur.
Exhibitions
- Helmhaus , Zurich, September 2 - October 1, 1967
- Kunsthaus Zurich , June 19 - August 29, 1982
- Museum für Gestaltung Basel , February 4 - March 16, 1986
- Swiss Photo Foundation , Winterthur, May 30 - October 11, 2009
- Musée Niépce , Chalon sur Saône, February 27 - May 30, 2010
- Villa dei Cedri , Bellinzona, July 18 - October 31, 2010
- Fundacion Mapfre, Instituto de Cultura Madrid, December 13, 2011 - February 19, 2012
- Artef, Gallery for Art Photography Zurich, September 13, 2012 - November 17, 2012
Awards
- 1957: Venice gold medal
- 1967: Appointment as Cavalier (Italy)
literature
- Walter Kern: The painter Gotthard Schuh In: Architektur und Kunst , Vol. 18, 1931, pp. 17–24
- Annamarie Schuh-Custer: The photographer Gotthard Schuh In: Aarauer Neujahrsblätter , Vol. 57, 1983, pp. 57-65
- Peter Pfrunder: Schuh, Gotthard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 671 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Gotthard Schuh, Early Photographs 1929–1939. Arche, Zurich 1967.
- A picture of the time: 1930–1950; Paul Senn, Hans Staub, Gotthard Schuh, three Swiss photo reporters. Benteli, Bern 1986, ISBN 3-7165-0536-6 .
- Gotthard Schuh, photographs from the years 1929–1963. Benteli, Bern 1983.
- Gotthard Schuh, a kind of infatuation. Peter Pfrunder (ed.). Steidl, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86521-886-5 .
Movie
- Gotthard shoe. A sensual view of the world. Documentary by Villi Hermann , 2011.
Web links
- Gotthard Schuh in the meta catalog of the Swiss university libraries and the Swiss national library Swissbib
- Literature by and about Gotthard Schuh in the catalog of the German National Library
- Peter Pfrunder: Gotthard shoe. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Gotthard Schuh in the Swiss Photo Foundation
- Gotthard Schuh, pioneer of Swiss photography. Radio broadcast May 2009 on DRS2
- Schuh, Gotthard. In: Sikart
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gotthard Schuh ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Swiss Photo Foundation in Winterthur
- ↑ Description at artfilm.ch , accessed on August 19, 2013.
- ↑ Trailer for: Gotthard Schuh. Una Visione Sensuale del Mondo by Villi Hermann. On YouTube .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schuh, Gotthard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin-Schöneberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1969 |
| Place of death | Küsnacht ZH |