Hannes Maria Flach

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1928: Self-portrait as a caller (Leica)

Hannes Maria Flach (born March 3, 1901 in Cologne ; † October 20, 1936 there ) was a German photographer , photo artist and photo journalist .

Family and education

He was born the third of five children. After completing a commercial apprenticeship, he was employed by AEG in Düsseldorf as a sales representative. In 1927 he met Lotte Fahrig († 2008), whom he not only photographed, but also dedicated over one hundred love letters to her. In addition to his training, he began around 1920, initially as an amateur, to familiarize himself with photography, which he found very attractive . He soon won first prizes; he participated in exhibitions from around 1925. He experimented with self-portraits and representational installations, among other things.

Professional development

approx. 1925: Self-portrait (nude) with a Leica

In 1930 he gave up his previous job as a sales representative and switched to professional photography. Photographically, he was based on the style of such important contemporaries as László Moholy-Nagy and Alexander Michailowitsch Rodtschenko . His style corresponded to the New Objectivity . During this time he had his studio in Cologne-Zollstock , Innere Kanalstrasse 110. From there, he worked as a freelance photo journalist. He came into contact with the Cologne progressives , to whom he was ultimately close.

In 1928 he portrayed the Düsseldorf art dealer Johanna Ey , in 1931 for example Heinrich Hoerle , Marta Hegemann with her husband Anton Räderscheidt , took photographs in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Cologne, among others. Flach and August Sander or Flach and Franz Joseph Esser portrayed each other. In 1930 Flach and Esser documented an excursion to the Lower Rhine together of at least two days .

In 1932 his first solo exhibition took place in the Cologne Museum of Decorative Arts on Hansaring . In 1934 he moved into a larger apartment on Cologne's Neumarkt on a floor higher up, from which he took several photos of the lively Neumarkt.

Possibly under the impression of the transfer of power to the National Socialists , Flach wrote his will on July 13, 1933 in Cologne-Zollstock, which was rather unusual for a 32-year-old. In it he formulated a wish: "... it would also be nice to put together a collection of my best works - since I will never get around to it in my life". He bequeathed all negatives to his laboratory assistant Martel Klein-Conrad to compensate for unpaid laboratory work. All the rest of his legacy he signed over to Luise Charlotte “Lotte” Fahrig, who was called Großimlinghaus after her marriage in 1940. This took over his furniture and other belongings to Krefeld , where she worked as a teacher.

In 1936, at the age of 35, Flach was stabbed to death by an SA or SS man in Cologne's Stolkgasse , presumably in a dispute over a taxi.

Post fame

In 1980 Flax's former laboratory assistant became aware of the exhibition dedicated to him; she sent all the negatives from flax's former inventory to Lotte Großimlinghaus, so that his estate could be merged in one place, as far as it still existed after losses due to the war and age. Around 950 of around 1,200 roll films have survived, around 30,000 recordings.

Portraits

Ilse Salberg with daughter Brigitte, Cologne 1932

Hannes Maria Flach was portrayed variously, for example by Heinrich Maria Davringhausen , Franz Joseph Esser , Anton Räderscheidt , Ilse Salberg and August Sander .

Exhibitions

  • 1932 - "Hannes Maria Flach", Kunstgewerbemuseum Cologne, Hansaring
  • 1975 - "From Dadamax to Green Belt", Kölnischer Kunstverein (photographs by Hannes Maria Flach, Werner Mantz , August Sander and Raoul Ubac , works by the Cologne progressives)
  • 1980 - "Hannes Maria Flach", studio dumont, Cologne
  • 1983 - "Hannes Maria Flach", Museum Ludwig, Cologne

literature

  • C. Breuer (Ed.): Cologne 1928 . Catalog for the exhibition of the Verband Deutscher Amateurphotographen-Vereine e. V. at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Friesenplatz. Images by Hannes Flach, Photographische Gesellschaft Köln, Anton Meinholz, Photographische Gesellschaft Essen et al., Cologne 1928
  • The German photograph. Annual review 1930. Dedicated to Heinrich Kühn on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of photography (introductory text by Peter Panter, di Kurt Tucholsky ). Publishing house Robert & Bruno Schultz, Berlin 1929.
  • The German photograph. 1933 Annual Review
  • Cologne the cathedral city on the Rhine . Advertising office of the city of Cologne and Cologne Transport Association e. V., photos by E. Coubillier (1), Th. Felten (6), HM Flach (7), H. Gross, Bonn (1), H. Jansen (4), A. Kreyenkamp (2), W. Matthäus (3), H. Sangermann (3), H. Schmölz (3), K. Scholz (1), Cologne undated (1935/36).
  • The march of the troops into the old garrisons. On the Domplatz in Cologne . Whole. Illustration in: Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung , Issue No. 11 from March 12, 1936, p. 357.
  • With Goethe to the Rhine - 1749/1949 . Photos by Peter Fischer, Flach, Gropp, Hallensleben, Jeiter, Maywald, Wolff & Tritschler and others, Rhineland Regional Transport Association, Cologne 1949.
  • Christoph Brockhaus / Reinhold Misselbeck (eds.): Hannes Maria Flach - Photographs of the Twenties . Exhibition from July 13th to August 14th 1983. Catalog. Museum Ludwig, Cologne 1983
  • Reinhold Mißelbeck : Cologne art scene - from the point of view of Cologne photographers . Photos by Mantz, Sander, Flach, Döring-Spengler, Erfurth, Schmölz, Chargesheimer, Held, Baus, Fürst, Rakoczy, Philips, Wirdeier, Burat, Peter Fischer, Pellini, Katz, Cox, Forester, Bindrim, Dietmar Schneider, Baatz, Fuchs, Jansen, Tillmann, Bitsch, Ogando et al., Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3761614543 .
  • Werner Schäfke / Roman Heuberger (eds.): Cologne and his photo books - photography in Cologne, from Cologne, for Cologne in the photo book from 1853 to 2010 . Emons Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-89705-790-6 .
  • Reinhard Matz / Wolfgang Vollmer: Cologne before the war - life, culture, city 1880-1940 . Greven Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-7743-0482-6 .
  • Christoph Schaden (Ed.): Bilderstrom - The Rhine and Photography 2016 - 1853 . Exhibition catalog of the LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-9811834-7-4 .
  • Adelheid Komenda, State Museum Bonn: Hannes Maria Flach. The unusual way of an estate . In: Photonews, 5 (2016), Archive Stories III, p. 6.

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Hannes M. Flach Archive . From: netzwer-fotoarchive.de, accessed on July 15, 2017
  2. ↑ Annotation: Historic address on Innere Kanalstrasse 110 in the Cologne address book from 1934, page 479 ; today's address presumably Weißhausstraße or Pohligstraße (Zollstock)
  3. ↑ Hannes Maria Flach 1901 Cologne - 1936 Cologne . From: van-ham.com, accessed July 15, 2017
  4. ↑ big Magazin, No. 98, 5 (2017), Bickendorfer Interest Group e. V. (Ed.), Cologne, p. 30.
  5. ^ Franz Martin Esser: The group "Kölner Progressive" and their artistic environment (1920-1933) . VDG Weimar 2008. ISBN 978-3-89739-584-8 , p. 109.
  6. ^ Franz Martin Esser: Franz Joseph Esser. Life and work . Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8288-2881-0 , p. 151.
  7. ↑ Hannes Maria Flach and Franz Joseph Esser: jointly written and signed postcard from Calcar on the Lower Rhine (motif: Calcar, market square) dated June 4, 1930 (postmark), addressed to Lotte Fahrig, Cologne-Klettenberg, Manderscheider Straße 37.
  8. ↑ Tom Christie: focus: Hannes Maria Flach . Retrieved July 15, 2017 from tumblr.com
  9. ↑ Hannes Maria Flach 1901–1936 . From: raederscheidt.com, accessed on July 15, 2017
  10. ^ Adelheid Komenda, State Museum Bonn: Hannes Maria Flach. The unusual path of an estate ( Memento of the original from May 23, 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. . In: Photonews, 5 (2016), Archive Stories III, p. 6. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.photonews.de
  11. ↑ The German photograph. Annual show 1930. Dedicated to Heinrich Kühn on the 50th anniversary of the photographer . From: photolit.de, accessed on July 15, 2017
  12. ↑ The German photograph. 1930 Annual Review . (Preface “How does the photographer see?” Conversation between Raoul Hausmann and Werner Gräff , Berlin). Publishing house Robert & Bruno Schultz, Berlin 1932.
personal data
SURNAME Flach, Hannes Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1936
Place of death Cologne