Hermann Rückwardt

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Hermann Rückwardt around 1870
Photographs by Hermann Rückwardt
Iron Bridge , 1916
Oberbaum Bridge , around 1895
Centralmarkthalle Berlin , around 1890
Eberswalde canal bridge , around 1914

Hermann Oskar Rückwardt (born June 26, 1845 in Löbau ; † August 23, 1919 in Berlin ) was a German photographer and publisher who became known through architectural photography .

Biographical

Rückwardt was the son of the district administrator and lawyer Immanuel Eduard Rückwardt and Dorothea Friderike Rückwardt nee. Klaputt, who had seven other children. After his school days in Heilsberg , East Prussia , Rückwardt moved to Berlin with his mother around 1856. Here he attended the Royal School of Applied Arts from 1860 .

Rückwardt married in 1881 and had three children. Since 1892 the family lived in the Villa Rückwardt in the villa colony of Lichterfelde-West .

Hermann Rückwardt is buried in the Lichterfelde park cemetery.

Act

In 1868 Rückwardt took over the Radtke photo studio in Jägerstrasse in Berlin. The portrait and architecture photographer became a member of the Photographisches Verein zu Berlin. In the following year Rückwardt founded his Photographic Art and Publishing Company . In the following years he published many portfolio works that included thematic focuses such as the Berlin City Palace , Museum Island , wooden buildings, Berlin bridges and railway structures. He often worked with architects and art historians on these series. Rückwardt received public contracts from the Berlin Road Construction Office for a series of images of the city bridges (1902) and from the Prussian Ministry for Trade, Industry and Public Buildings .

Rückwardt employed more than 20 people in his publishing house and studio in the mid-1880s. From 1892 the company was based in Groß-Lichterfelde . He received orders from all over Germany and for this purpose took his equipment with him in a laboratory trolley. Rückwardt was the Royal Prussian court photographer of Wilhelm II from 1876 and the Royal Bavarian court photographer of Ludwig II from 1885 . He was considered an outstanding and successful photographer of his time, who was awarded a number of prizes.

Publications

  • Architectural study sheets: original photographic recordings based on nature Berlin, 1885 ( digital copies )
  • New villas in the area of ​​Berlin. Original photographs based on nature. 30 collotype plates. (End of 19th century), Hessling & Spielmeyer bookstore, Berlin; owned by the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin
  • Modern wooden buildings. Villas and country houses, pavilions, bay windows, park gates etc. as well as designs for Swiss cottages, foresters' houses and other small rural buildings. executed by the Wolgaster Actien-Gesellschaft für Holzverarbeitung vorm. J. Heinr. Kraft in Wolgast. Original photographic recordings in collotype. Hessing & Spielmeyer, Berlin / New York 1893.

literature

  • Märkisches Museum Berlin (Ed.): Berlin between residence and metropolis. Photographs by Hermann Rückwardt 1871–1916. With texts by Michael Neumann. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-87584-523-4 .
  • Christiane Schuchardt: Wannsee villas from the early days. In: Berlin in the past and present. Yearbook of the Berlin State Archives 1990. Berlin 1990, pp. 117–134.
  • Hans Schiller (ed.): The imperial Berlin. 53 photographs from 1886. Harenberg, Dortmund 1980, ISBN 3-88379-170-9 .

Web links

Commons : Hermann Rückwardt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Title illustration of new villas ... online in the Architecture Museum of the TUB
personal data
SURNAME Rückwardt, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rückwardt, Hermann Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Löbau
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1919
Place of death Berlin