Helga Schmidt-Glassner

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Helga Schmidt-Glassner (* 1911 in Mährisch-Ostrau ; † 1998 in Stuttgart ) was a German photographer of the 20th century. Before 1960, her name was also spelled with "ß": Glaßner or Schmidt-Glaßner.

Life

Helga Glassner received her photography training from 1933 to 1936 at what is now the Federal Higher Graphic Education and Research Institute in Vienna . In the following years she specialized in architecture and art documentation using photography. During the Second World War she lived in Berlin and took part in the campaign for colored reproduction of stationary works of art that could possibly be damaged or destroyed by the effects of the war. She stayed in Berlin until 1948 and married the art historian Richard Schmidt , who later went to Stuttgart as a professor and became head of the monument office there. The couple lived in Stuttgart from 1950, Helga Glassner took on the double name Schmidt-Glassner. With Richard Schmidt, she designed a number of volumes on works of art and buildings with her photographs.

Schmidt-Glassner left behind more than 18,000 mostly large-format photographs on architecture, sculpture, applied arts, folk art and the cultural history of the most important Central European art epochs. In the 1930s she took photos for the landscape and city books of the Langewiesche publishing house in Königstein im Taunus . This collaboration continued after the World War, during which she also worked for the German Art Publishing House in Bohemia . Over 20 volumes appeared in its series Deutsche Lande, deutsche Kunst alone . Further works by the photographer were published by the Munich publisher Callwey.

Schmidt-Glassner was a member of the Society of German Photographers (GdL), today the German Photographic Academy .

Photographs in publications (selection)

The volumes in the series Deutsche Lande, Deutsche Kunst are listed in full in that article.

  • Vienna. The face of the city in pictures . Frick Verlag, Vienna 1941.
  • Karl-Heinz Clasen : Maulbronn Monastery . Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche successor, Königstein im Taunus 1949.
  • Introduction by Hans Eichler: The Marienschrein in the cathedral in Aachen . Hirmer Society for Scientific Photography, Munich 1953.
  • Julius Baum : Twelve German domes . Atlantis Verlag, Zurich / Freiburg 1955.
  • Leo Bruhns : Tilman Riemenschneider . Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche successor, Königstein im Taunus 1956.
  • Richard Schmidt: German imperial cities . Hirmer, Munich 1957.
  • Helmut Schoppa : The art of Roman times in Gaul, Germania and Britain. Gutenberg Book Guild, Frankfurt am Main 1958.
  • Richard Schmidt: St. Gallen Abbey. Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche successor, Königstein im Taunus 1958.
  • Richard Schmidt: Castles of the German Middle Ages . Hirmer, Munich 1959.
  • Theodor Müller u. a .: German sculpture from the early days to the present. Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche successor, Königstein im Taunus 1969.
  • Gislind M. Ritz: Old carved country furniture . Callwey, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-7667-0307-2 .
  • Margarete Baur-Heinbold: Nice old libraries. A book about the magic of your rooms . Callwey, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7667-0340-4 .
  • Hugo Borger : The Roman-Germanic Museum Cologne. Callwey, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7667-0384-6 .
  • Leonie von Wilckens : The doll's house: From the mirror image of the bourgeois household to toys for children . Callwey, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7667-0438-9 .
  • Gerhart Egger: Bourgeois jewelry: 15th to 20th century . Callwey, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7667-0730-2 .
  • Johannes Beer : Ottobeuren , 1950, Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1988, ISBN 3-7845-1132-5 .
  • Luisa Hager: Nymphenburg . Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche successor, Königstein im Taunus 1990, ISBN 3-7845-1051-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ KH Clasen, Peter Metz: Ten German domes . Recordings by Helga Glaßner. Atlantis-Verlag, Berlin 1939.
  2. ↑ For example: Ernst Gall: Dome and monastery churches on the Rhine . Recordings by Helga Schmidt-Glaßner. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 1956. - In addition, however, already in 1955 the spelling with “ss”: Heinrich Kreisel: Burgen und Schlösser in Franken . Recordings by Helga Schmidt-Glassner (=  Deutsche Lande, German art ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1955, p. 4 in the imprint (the spelling in capital letters on the title page is not clear).
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Glassner, Helga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glassner, Helga (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architecture photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Moravian Ostrau , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH 1998
Place of death Stuttgart