Hans Baumgartner (photographer)

Hans Baumgartner (born September 10, 1911 in Altnau , † December 28, 1996 in Frauenfeld ) was a Swiss photographer and teacher.

Live and act

Hans Baumgartner was born in Altnau TG on Lake Constance in 1911 . He trained as a teacher at the Kreuzlingen teacher training college and at the University of Zurich . From 1937 until his retirement he worked as a teacher, until 1962 in Steckborn , later in Frauenfeld .

Baumgartner's first photographs were taken in 1929. The journalist Arnold Kübler discovered him in the early 1930s . A first photo report appeared in 1935. Baumgartner then published in magazines such as Camera , du , Der Schweizer Spiegel , Die Schweiz and Föhn . The Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Thurgauer Zeitung also published his pictures. His photo books (from 1941) mainly deal with topics from his home canton Thurgau . In 1937 he made the acquaintance of the painter Adolf Dietrich , whom he subsequently portrayed several times.

Baumgartner also took photographs on his travels to Paris (1930, 1931; 1991) and Italy (1935), the Balkans (1935), southern France (1949; 1953), North Africa and the Sahara (1949); to Croatia with Dalmatia (1957), to Burgundy (1966), to Spain and Portugal , Sweden and Finland (1969), to the USA (1970), to Hungary (1981; 1991), Belgium (1987; 1991) and Germany. On his world tour by ship in 1963 he reached Asia (Bombay, Colombo, Saigon, Hong Kong, Yokohama) and the American continent ( Mexico , USA). Stays at health resorts took him to Davos in 1946 and 1954 .

Hans Baumgartner died in Frauenfeld in 1996. The Swiss Foundation for Photography manages his estate of around 120,000 photos .

Awards

• 1948: First prize in the «Spiegel der Heimat» photo competition, Swiss Homeland Security
• 1986: Culture Prize of the Canton of Thurgau

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 1986: Thurgau Art Museum , Ittingen Charterhouse
• 1991: Musée suisse de l'Appareil Photographique (Swiss Camera Museum ) Vevey
• 1996/1997: Kunsthaus Zurich
• 2011: Hans Baumgartner - masterpieces of everyday life. ArteF Gallery for Art Photography, Zurich
• 2011: School in the picture. Mühlebach School Museum, Amriswil
• 2011: Hans Baumgartner - Pictures from the lake. Maritime Museum, Kreuzlingen
• 2011: Hans Baumgartner - Origin and World. Exhibition by the Swiss Photo Foundation . Museum in the Turmhof , Steckborn
• 2011: Hans Baumgartner - By order. State Archives Thurgau , Frauenfeld

Group exhibitions

• 1952: World Exhibition of Photography in Lucerne
• 1998: Forum of Swiss History Schwyz

literature

• Hans Baumgartner: Photographs. Mühlemann, Weinfelden 1986.
• Alex Bänninger (Ed.): Hans Baumgartner. Experience - event - result. Benteli, Bern 1996, ISBN 3-7165-1049-1 .
• Max Eichenberger: Hans Baumgartner - the photographer of the Thurgau. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch , Vol. 63, 1988, pp. 9-26. On-line
• Thomas Honickel: “You don't see me! I am air for you! ”Exhibition series for the 100th birthday of the photographer Hans Baumgartner. In: Photonews , 6/11, Hamburg 2011. online (PDF file, 5.8 MB.)
• Turmhof Foundation and Swiss Photo Foundation (ed.): On site - A photographic dialogue. Hans Baumgartner - Judith Stadler - Roland Iselin - Christian Schwager. 2011.
• Peter Pfrunder: The “trained” look. In: Schweizer Monatshefte , Vol. 77 (1997) Online
• Obituary for Hans Baumgartner. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch , Vol. 73, 1998, pp. 191–193. ( e-periodica )

Movies

• Yvonne Escher: Hans Baumgartner, photographer. In collaboration with SF DRS, 1994
• Annemarie Friedli: The teacher with the camera. Hans Baumgartner and his Thurgau. 1996

Web links

• Publications by and about Hans Baumgartner (1911-1996) in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Hans Baumgartner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Georg Sütterlin: Baumgartner, Hans. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Hans Baumgartner in the encyclopedia and in the image database of the Swiss Photo Foundation
• Hans Baumgartner in the portrait of Peter P. Schneider. (Quoted from the Tages-Anzeiger on December 31, 1996.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Markus Landert: From private snapshots to artificial staging - Adolf Dietrich in the mirror of portrait photography. ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2009 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. Texts from the Thurgau Art Museum. Retrieved January 7, 2011. 
2. ↑ Manuel Gasser: Adolf Dietrich, 1877–1957. In: du , 18, 1958. In it Baumgartner's photographs: The painter in his overgrown garden by the lake , 1956. and Adolf Dietrich at the window of his bedroom , c. 1955 / The painter and his model , approx. 1941. In the Swiss Electronic Library, accessed on February 21, 2013.
3. ^ Description and list of winners as well as photos of the winners in the magazine Heimatschutz - Patrimoine , Vol. 43 (1948), pp. 34–79. Swiss Electronic Library , accessed on February 20, 2013.
4. ^ Exhibition poster in the poster collection of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich , accessed on March 22, 2014.
5. ↑ List of works (PDF file, 548 kB.) On the gallery's website, accessed on September 9, 2011.
6. ↑ Description of the exhibition ( Memento of the original from March 5, 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. on the website of the Mühlebach School Museum, accessed on September 9, 2011.  
7. ↑ Description of the exhibition ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2011 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. on the website Der Thurgau celebrates Hans Baumgartner , accessed on September 9, 2011.  
8. ↑ Walter Labhart: Nostalgic views of the Untersee. Meeting  ( 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 St. Galler Tagblatts website of October 15, 2011, accessed on October 15, 2011.  
9. ↑ Description of the exhibition ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2011 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. on the website of the Museum im Turmhof  
10. ↑ Barbara Fatzer: Connected to the people here.  ( 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. In: Thurgauer Zeitung of September 8, 2011, accessed on September 9, 2011.  
11. ^ Thurgau photography today. ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2011 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. Portrait of the artist and description of the exhibition. From the 100th birthday anniversary website, accessed on September 10, 2011  
12. ↑ Dieter Langhart: Dialogue of Images.  ( 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. Review in the St. Galler Tagblatt online, September 30, 2011, accessed on October 1, 2011.