Hans Lachmann
Hans Lachmann (born March 13, 1920 ; † July 31, 2006 in Monheim am Rhein ) was a German photographer.
From autumn 1941 he worked as a photo reporter in propaganda companies. Since the post-war period he has worked as a freelance photographer with a focus on assignments for the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . His work therefore documents, among other things, the development of church structures in the 1950s and 1960s as well as the areas of activity of diakonia and ecumenism. But facets of everyday life were also a recurring theme in his work.
Nothing has survived from Lachmann's photographic work during World War II. The oeuvre since 1948 comprises around 500,000 photos (b / w black-and-white negatives, positives, slides) and is kept in the archive of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland in Düsseldorf.
In the years 1997 to 2001, the Federal Archives (Germany) acquired 1000 motifs from Hans Lachmann, which are listed there as "Holdings 194 Hans Lachmann Collection". This collection is one of the images that were made available under a free license in Wikimedia Commons at the end of 2008 through a cooperation between the Federal Archives and Wikimedia Germany .
Web links
- Archive of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland
- Lachmann photo collection in the Federal Archives
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lachmann, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1920 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 2006 |
| Place of death | Monheim am Rhein |