Hanns Holdt

Sent M'Ahesa (around 1928)

Hanns Holdt (born in Breslau in 1887 ; died in Munich in 1944 ) was a German photographer.

Life

Hanns Holdt studied photography at the Bavarian State College for Photography in Munich from 1912 to 1914 . Holdt worked as a portrait photographer in Cologne from 1918 to 1932 and was a member of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner (GDL) during that time. He specialized in color portraits using the Jos-Pe and Vobach methods . From 1934 he worked as a photo journalist in Munich. Around 1936 he sold his studio.

• Photographs from Greece
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  Dionysus Theater 1922

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  Panagia Gorgoepikoos 1922

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  Relief at Panagia Gorgoepikoos 1922

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  Kesariani Monastery 1922

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  Photo book Greece, third expanded edition 1928

Photographs

Lou Albert-Lasard (around 1916). Photo by Hanns Holdt

• Magda Bauer. 8 photographic studies . With introductory words from GR Heyer . Munich: Euphorion-Verlag, 1919
• Niddy Impekoven . 7 photographic studies . With introductory words from Hertha Koenig . Munich: Euphorion-Verlag, 1919
• Greece. Architecture, landscape, folk life . Introduction Hugo von Hofmannsthal . Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1922
• Greece. Architecture, landscape, folk life . Introduction Hugo von Hofmannsthal . Extended Edition. Explanations Helmuth Th. Bossert . Binding drawing of the linen edition Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke . Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1928

Collective photographs

• Photography 1919–1979. Made in Germany. The GDL photographers . Munich: Umschau, 1979
• And they ... had to leave Germany. Photographers and their pictures 1928–1997 . Catalog. Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn 1997

Web links

• Literature by and about Hanns Holdt in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Hanns Holdt , at the Swiss Photo Foundation
• Alfred Mayer: Hanns Holdt, Munich: An artist of the camera . In: German Art and Decoration , 37.1915-1916, 446-449

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1925: Early color photos on paper after the suction process , at photobibliothek.ch