Grete Leistikow

Franziska Bertha Margarete Leistikow , called Grete (born July 5, 1893 in Elbing , † October 9, 1989 in Munich ) was a German photographer.

In addition to Hermann Collischonn , Marta Hoepffner and Ilse Bing , she was photographically involved in the Neues Frankfurt project . Together with her brother Hans Leistikow she designed the layout of the magazine Das Neue Frankfurt .

Grete Leistikow was trained as a photographer in the Eduard van Delden photo studio in Breslau by Heinrich Götz from 1909 to 1911. Then she moved to Elfriede Reichelt's photo studio, also in Breslau. In 1927 she followed her brother Hans Leistikow to Frankfurt am Main. In addition to designing the covers of the magazine Das Neue Frankfurt, she also photographs numerous buildings in the New Frankfurt and participates in exhibitions in Stuttgart (1929) and Munich (1930) with artistic photo collages.

She followed Ernst May to the Soviet Union in 1930 and returned in 1937.

She was married to Werner Hebebrand from 1930 to 1948 . The only son Karl Hebebrand was born in 1930. Grete Leistikow is buried in her husband's grave in Marburg.

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Historical Museum Frankfurt , accessed on April 29, 2016
[1] | Catalog: Hans and Grete - The Leistikow siblings as designers of the New Frankfurt

Individual evidence

^ Claudia Quiring: Leistikow, Franziska Bertha Margarete (Grete) in: Akture des Neuen Frankfurt , Frankfurt 2016, p. 139
↑ Verena Faber: Elfriede Reichelt - studio photography between tradition and modernity . Dissertation 2011, p. 14 ff.
^ Rosemarie and Dieter Wesp: Hans and Grete - The Leistikow siblings as designers of the new Frankfurt . Catalog for the exhibition in the Ernst-May-Haus in Frankfurt am Main, 2016/17, p. 14 ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Leistikow, Grete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Leistikow, Franziska Bertha Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 5, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Elbing , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	October 9, 1989
Place of death	Munich

[1] Claudia Quiring: Leistikow, Franziska Bertha Margarete (Grete) in: Akture des Neuen Frankfurt , Frankfurt 2016, p. 139

[2] Verena Faber: Elfriede Reichelt - studio photography between tradition and modernity . Dissertation 2011, p. 14 ff.

[3] Rosemarie and Dieter Wesp: Hans and Grete - The Leistikow siblings as designers of the new Frankfurt . Catalog for the exhibition in the Ernst-May-Haus in Frankfurt am Main, 2016/17, p. 14 ff.