Harry Weber (photographer)

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Harry Weber (born August 13, 1921 in Klosterneuburg ; † April 10, 2007 in Vienna ) was an Austrian photographer .

Life

Harry Weber was of Jewish descent. After elementary school and high school, he attended the tailoring academy in Michaelbeuerngasse from 1937 to 1938. He had to emigrate to Palestine in 1938 and fought in the Jewish Brigade for the British army during World War II . In 1946 he returned to Austria.

In 1947 he met Marianne, a photo lab technician, in Salzburg . The two married in 1952 and moved back to Vienna. From 1952 he worked for Stern , from 1959 to 1984 he was its chief photographer and since 1967 also chief photographer of the publishing house Gruner und Jahr , which publishes in addition to Stern also Schöner Wohnen , Brigitte und Eltern . His pictures of the 1956 Hungarian popular uprising achieved particular fame .

He also worked as a theater photographer, for example for the Salzburg Festival . He also published several photo books, e.g. B. Vienna at night , Vienna - faces of a city , Salzburg in the light , the Vienna Philharmonic and Jerusalem and exhibited his pictures in several international photo exhibitions.
Weber died of heart disease at the age of 85 and is buried in Vienna's central cemetery , 1st gate.

Harry Weber's grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery

All of his photos - with the exception of the late Vienna block - were taken over by the picture archive of the Austrian National Library during his lifetime .

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ORF: Take a picture of Vienna! Harry Weber - A Portrait
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Klosterneuburg
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2007
Place of death Vienna