Hans Hildenbrand
Hans Hildenbrand (* 1870 Bad Boll ; † 1957 ) was a German photographer.
The Stuttgart resident , who had his studio at Marienstraße 32, became a royal court photographer and took pictures in the open air early on. For example, on August 5, 1908, he photographed the Zeppelin LZ 4 over Stuttgart, which a little later went up in flames. He also photographed the wreckage of the airship in Echterdingen and sold his photos as postcards.
From 1909 he worked with autochrom plates; thus he is one of the early color photographers in Germany. In 1911 he founded the Color Photographic Society, which mainly distributed postcards and stereoscopic images . The stereoscope series, which were marketed together with the corresponding device, were sold under the name "Chromoplast".
During the First World War he was one of 19 officially commissioned war photographers on the German side and the only one among them who took color photos of the theaters of war in Alsace , Champagne and the Vosges .
After the war, Hildenbrand worked a lot for the American magazine National Geographic . His last contributions were pictures on the subject of “Changing Berlin” in 1937.
In 1944, Hildenbrand's archive in Stuttgart was destroyed by an air raid, so that many of its originals are lost. The Photo-Hildenbrand company , which went back to Hans Hildenbrand, existed until 1997.
Exhibitions and book
Together with pictures by his French colleague Jules Gervais-Courtellemont , Hildenbrand's war photographs were on view in 2009 in the exhibition “End Times Europe” in the Kurt Tucholsky Literature Museum in Rheinsberg and then in the House of Brandenburg-Prussian History in Potsdam . The exhibition is to be shown at a total of five German locations (apart from Rheinsberg and Potsdam, Finsterwalde , Erkner and Oranienburg ) and five French locations. A book was published for the exhibition that contains a collection of statements by contemporary witnesses.
As early as 2007, on the occasion of the centenary of color photography, numerous Hildenbrand pictures were shown in the Erlangen Municipal Gallery . The large monograph Hans Hildenbrand was published in autumn 2018 . Court photographer and pioneer of early color photography , published by the House of History Baden-Württemberg . Since March 31, 2019, the Ulm City Hall has been showing the exhibition “It will be colorful! Hans Hildenbrand and the first color photos of Ulm. "
literature
- Peter Walther (Ed.): End times Europe. A collective diary of German-speaking writers, artists and scholars during the First World War. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0347-8 .
- Ulrich Hägele: Across the fronts / Au-delá des fronts. Color photographs by Jules Gervais Courtellement and Hans Hildenbrand 1914-1918 German-French Cultural Institute Tübingen, Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-045279-6
- House of History Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Hans Hildenbrand. Court photographer and pioneer of early color photography , Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2018, ISBN 978-3-95505-096-2
Web links
- Peter Walther: The Color of War Pictures and Biographical Data , einestages.spiegel.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uwe Bogen: A pioneer from Stuttgart who gave color to photographs , stuttgarter-zeitung.de
- ^ Chromoplast pictures "From near and far" , stereoskopie.com
- ↑ It's getting colorful! Hans Hildenbrand and the first color photos of Ulm. , at ulm.de, accessed on April 2, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hildenbrand, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1870 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1957 |