Heinz Hajek-Halke

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Heinz Hajek-Halke (born December 1, 1898 in Berlin ; † May 11, 1983 there ) was a German photographer .

biography

Heinz Hajek-Halke spent his childhood in Argentina . In 1910 he came back to Berlin. In 1915 he began studying at the Royal Art School in Berlin, which he had to interrupt a year later because he was called up as a soldier for the First World War . He continued it in 1919 under Professors Emil Orlik and Hans Baluscheck and graduated in 1923.

In 1924 he began his first attempts at photography. In 1925 he was employed as a photographer by the Presse-Photo agency. There he worked with Willi Ruge and made his first editing and light montages.

In 1927 he met Bruno Schultz, the editor of the yearbook Das Deutsche Lichtbild know. It was the time of the layouts, the editing assemblies and the first advertising shots using experimental techniques. In 1930 he worked a lot experimentally.

In 1933 Hajek-Halke was asked by the Propaganda Ministry to forge documentaries. However, he evaded the NSDAP's access and settled as Heinz Halke on Lake Constance. There, journalistic, scientifically founded series of pictures from the field of small animal biology were created. The basis was macro shots with a large format camera with an extension of up to 1.00 m in length.

In 1937 he went to Brazil, where photo reports , a. a. about a snake farm.

In 1939 he was drafted into service by the Wehrmacht as a works and flight photographer at the Dornier works in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance. In 1945 Hajek-Halke fell into French captivity, from which he fled. He founded an adder farm and sold the snake venom to the pharmaceutical industry. It was also during this time that the first wire sculptures were created as objects for his light graphics.

In 1948 he met Toni Schneiders . In 1949 he became a member of the Fotoform group and worked as a freelance photographer. From 1955 he was professor for photography and photo graphics at the University of Fine Arts (today: University of the Arts ) in Berlin. In addition, he was appointed a full member of the German Society for Photography (DGPh) that year and in 1957 a full member of the Society of German Photographers .

In 1965 Hajek-Halke received the Culture Prize of the German Society for Photography and in 1978 the David Octavius ​​Hill Medal . He also became an honorary member of the Society of German Photographers.

The Hajek-Halkes estate with over 200 photographic works from his late work has been kept in the archive of the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 2010 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Academy of Arts receives Hajek-Halkes photos. In: Berliner Morgenpost of November 27, 2010, accessed on July 24, 2013.
  2. ^ Archive of fine arts: Heinz Hajek Halke Archive at the Academy of Arts, Berlin (accessed on July 24, 2013)
  3. ↑ munzinger.de
personal data
SURNAME Hajek-Halke, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1983
Place of death Berlin