Heinz von Perckhammer

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Heinrich "Heinz" of Perckhammer (born 3. March 1895 in Merano , Austria-Hungary ; died 3. February 1965 in Merano, Italy) was a from Tyrol originating photographer . After working in China, he opened a photo studio in Berlin and published several illustrated books. His extensive work has not yet been cataloged.

Life

Perckhammer was born in Merano. His father Hildebrand von Perckhammer had a photo studio since 1878. When he died early in 1911, his wife Johanna Fiala closed the studio. Heinz von Perckhammer initially had no photographic ambitions. He intended to attend the Munich Art Academy .

In 1913, Heinz von Perckhammer became a tax officer on the small cruiser SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth of the 7th company of the kuk sailor corps and took part in the First World War. The ship's crew fought against the Japanese army, but sank after the ammunition was used up, on November 2, 1914, their own ship in the bay of Tsingtau . After the siege of Tsingtau , the occupation and the German garrison there were taken prisoner by Japan . - Heinz von Perckhammer, however, belonged to that part of the crew who could not return from Tientsin to Tsingtau in time at the end of August 1914. He stayed in Tientsin with about 100 comrades; that is where he probably started taking pictures. After China entered the war, he was sent to the Hsi Yuan camp in August 1917 and to the Wanschousze camp in April 1918; He was released in 1919 but stayed in East Asia.

Around 1927/28 he returned to Europe and settled in Berlin. He opened a studio on Kurfürstendamm under the name Photo-Art-Studio . His subjects were social life in Berlin and motorsport. He also made nudes . In 1929 he documented the circumnavigation of the world by the airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin for the newspaper Die Woche .

During the Second World War , von Perckhammer was a war correspondent. In 1942, his Berlin studio was destroyed by the circumstances of the war. He moved to Merano, which had belonged to Italy since 1918, and opened a new studio there. Shortly before his 70th birthday, he died of a heart attack .

Publications

  • From China and the Chinese . Schaubücher , Volume 28. Orell Füssli, Zurich / Leipzig 1930.

literature

  • Kathrin Schönegg: Heinz von Perckhammer. A career in photography between the Weimar Republic and National Socialism , [Berlin]: Berlinische Galerie [2018], ISBN 978-3-940208-56-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz von Perckhammer as LZ-127 passenger in 1929 ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ezeptalk.de 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. , ezeptalk.de, accessed on November 30, 2013
  2. ↑ http://homepage.i-med.ac.at/q001re/perckhammer/index.html
personal data
SURNAME Perckhammer, Heinz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perckhammer, Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Meran , Fürstete Grafschaft Tirol , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1965
Place of death Meran, South Tyrol , Italy