Herbert Rosenthal (photographer)

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Herbert Rosenthal (born September 11, 1862 ; died November 24, 1938 in Guben ) was an internationally recognized German portrait , architecture and landscape photographer .

Life

family

The fate of the family with Jewish roots was still largely unknown at the end of the 20th century. Herbert Rosenthal moved to Königsberg soon after his birth with his father who worked as a photographer .

He and his wife, who died early in the 1920s, had two children. His daughter survived the Nazi era .

Career

“Greetings from Guben. Corona Schröter Monument “;
Postcard from Rosenthal, around 1905

Herbert Rosenthal came to Königsberg as a child, where his father worked as a photographer. In the early days of the German Empire, Herbert Rosenthal completed a three-year training course in his father's company and then worked as an assistant in Berlin, Magdeburg, Hamburg and Stettin.

Herbert Rosenthal founded his company in the spring of 1888 and rented a studio for this purpose at the - today's - address Ulica Piastowska 3 in today's Gubin . Towards the end of the 19th century, the "H. Rosenthal Photographische Anstalt "at the then address Haag-Straße 13: In the building" next to the shooting range "" A. Krause ”ran his“ studio for photography ”.

In addition to his portrait photographs, including those of the chairman of the Niederlausitzer Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Landeskunde Hugo Jentsch and a half-length portrait of Prince Heinrich zu Schoenaich-Carolath dated 1897 , which later also served to illustrate a multi-image postcard about the rulership of Amtitz , the entrepreneur took photos of Buildings and streets and illustrated various books and illustrated books with his photos.

One of Rosenthal's historically and documentarily valuable image documents is a photograph of the Corona Schröter memorial, inaugurated in 1905 , which was reproduced and distributed on a postcard . In the same year Rosenthal joined the German Photographers Association , in which he was soon initially elected as secretary to the board.

After about twenty years of activity in Guben, the photographer had his own house built there with "business premises that meet the highest standards." Rosenthal moved to the building acquired in 1907 on the corner of Grüne Wiese - now Ulica Piastowska - in front of the Haagstrasse junction next to the former Bethel Hospice his studio in September of that year.

In many cases Rosenthal acted as a judge at various exhibitions in Hanover, Kassel, Bremen, Weimar and Breslau. After he had already participated in many international exhibitions in the 19th century and had received many awards for his work, he sent the Brussels International Exhibition in 1910 . In that year he had his place of business in Guben at 53 Grüner Wiese .

In 1912 Rosenthal was elected second chairman of the German Photographers Association.

In 1918 Rosenthal resigned from the German Photographers Association and instead took over the chairmanship of the Lausitzer Photographische Verein , which was converted into a guild in 1926 .

In his adopted home, Rosenthal held several municipal honorary offices . Nevertheless, in 1928, on April 1st of that year, he celebrated his 50th business anniversary. In the same year, several of his recordings appeared in the 25th volume of the book Die Stadt Guben, published by Heinrich Laß and Erwin Stein in the series of monographs of German cities at Deutscher Kommunalverlag . A gelatin silver print, mounted on cardboard, of the grave monument designed by the sculptor Georg Kolbe in 1926 for the Lewin family in the Niederlausitz cemetery found its way into the collection of the Georg Kolbe Museum via the Kolbe estate .

At the beginning of the 1930s, Rosenthal was head master of the photographers' guild based in Cottbus . Around the same time, he had set up numerous photo cabinets for visitors in his studio.

Herbert Rosenthal committed suicide a few days after the November pogroms in 1938 . In the church records of the Evangelical Church in Guben, the Guben town historian Andreas Peter found the information that Rosenthal hanged himself on November 24, 1938, but not the place and the details of his death. According to the traditional story of the son of the contemporary witness Helene Ruby, wife of the master baker Anton Ruby, who was then at 15 Haagstrasse, Herbert Rosenthal "put an end to his life himself because of the atrocities of the Nazis."

Studio building

House on the far right: Grüne Wiese 52, Guben 1911

The Rosenthals residential and studio house acquired by Rosenthal in 1907, which was last registered at Grüne Wiese 52 , was used as a tenement house in 2011. Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 17.3 "  N , 14 ° 43 ′ 20"  E

Exhibitions and honors

Preprint on the lapel of a cabinet photograph by Rosenthal with a list of dated awards in various cities between 1895 and 1901

Rosenthal sent exhibitions at home and abroad and received numerous awards for this. Between 1895 and 1901 he was awarded for his works in the following cities:

Rosenthal was at the beginning of the 20th century

  • "Holder of the Grand Ducal Weimar State Medal " or the Grand Ducal Saxony-Weimar State Medal
  • and was also honored with a letter of appreciation
    • "Sr. Your Highness of the Prince of Schöneich-Carolath "
    • "Of the city council of Guben"
  • Rosenthal's work had also been exhibited in Malmö (Sweden); Rosenthal was the holder of the Royal Swedish Medal of the Baltic Exhibition
  • Rosenthal was also the holder of the "Anhalt-Dessau City Medal"
  • In 1910 he took part in the world exhibition in Brussels.
  • In 1912 Rosenthal was honored with the award of the silver medal by the Meiningen Chamber of Crafts during the 41st traveling exhibition of the German Photographers Association in Meiningen .
  • In 1914 he was an exhibitor at the International Exhibition for Book Trade and Graphics in Leipzig

literature

Archival material

Archives by and about Herbert Rosenthal can be found, for example

  • in the Brandenburg State Main Archives (BLHA) as a black and white portrait photo with the title “Prof. Dr. Hugo Jentsch, Guben ”in the dimensions 13.5 × 21.5 cm from the“ Workshop for Photographic Image Art Herbert Rosenthal, Guben, Grüne Wiese 53 ”, archive signature 103 views - photos E1

Web links

Commons : Herbert Rosenthal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b o. V .: Herbert Rosenthal, Guben , in: Nachrichtenblatt für das Photographenhandwerk , Volumes 39–40 (1932), p. 188; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Jana Pozar / zar1: In the footsteps of a photographer ... , article on the Lausitzer Rundschau page of November 9, 2013, last accessed on September 29, 2019
  3. ↑ a b Jutta Rückert, Otto Rückert: Guben , in Irene Diekmann , Julius H. Schoeps (ed.): Guide through the Jewish Brandenburg , with a preface by Manfred Stolpe , 1st edition, Berlin: Edition Hentrich, 1995, ISBN 978 -3-89468-189-0 and ISBN 3-89468-189-6 , pp. 152ff .; here: p. 154; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Nachrichtenblatt für das Photographenhandwerk , Volume 36 (1929), passim , va p. 136; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ^ A b G. A. Kraus: Address book of photography. Industry, trade, commerce , Berlin: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1929, pp. 173, 490; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ Compare the print on the cardboard backing of a contemporary photograph in the collection of Danuta Thiel - Melerski
  7. ^ Danuta Thiel - Melerski: A. Krause in her lexicon of photographers on the page fotorevers.eu
  8. ↑ a b Information from the Brandenburg State Main Archives
  9. ↑ digitized version of the Deutsche Fotothek; Original from the possession of Karl Schwier , Verlag der Deutschen Photographische Zeitung, Weimar; in the administration of the Hermann-Krone collection of the TU Dresden , inventory number KAT-T-058/03 (Mo2)
  10. ↑ low-resolution digital version of a multi-image card offered for sale
  11. ↑ a b c d CGA publisher: Guben: Grüne Wiese am Abzweig Haagstraße , article on the page of the magazine Der Märkische Bote from November 15, 2011, last accessed on October 1, 2019
  12. ^ A b Andreas Peter: Guben , in Irene A. Diekmann (Ed.): Jüdisches Brandenburg. Past and present , ed. on behalf of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies, Berlin: VBB Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86650-093-8 , pp. 154ff .; here: p. 171; limited preview in Google Book search
  13. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Compare the information on the reverse uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
  14. ↑ a b World Exhibition in Brussels 1910. German Empire. Official catalog , ed. vom Reichskommissar, Berlin: Verlag von Georg Stilke, 1910, p. 117; limited preview in Google Book search
  15. ↑ a b Photographische Korrespondenz , number 624, year 1912, p. 412; Digitized via ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online
  16. ↑ Heinrich Laß, Erwin Stein (ed.): Die Stadt Guben (= monographs of German cities: representation of German cities and their work in the economy, finance, hygiene, social policy and technology , volume 25), Berlin-Friedenau: Deutscher Kommunal-Verlag, 1928; (Reprint of the edition, edited by the history teacher Andreas Peter ; 1st edition, Guben: Niederlausitzer Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-935881-85-2 ; [1] ; also as a limited preview in the Google book search)
  17. ↑ Information with a digitized version of the photo on the museum website
  18. ↑ a b c d circular photography. Analog and digital image media in archives and collections , publisher: German Documentation Center for Art History - Photo Archive Photo Marburg in cooperation with the Museum Association Baden-Württemberg eV, the History and Archives section of the German Society for Photography eV (DGPh) and the Saxon Museum Association eV, New episode double volume 6–7, Stuttgart: Publishing house and editorial office Dr. Wolfgang Seidel, 1999, ISSN 0945-0327, p. 38; limited preview in Google Book search
  19. ↑ Photographische Correspondenz , Volume 38 (1902), p. 638; Digitized via ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online
  20. ↑ Official catalog. International exhibition for book trade and graphics Leipzig 1914 , Leipzig: printed by Poeschel & Trepte, 1914, p. 174; Digitized via the internet archive
personal data
SURNAME Rosenthal, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1862
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1938
Place of death Guben