Hilde Hubbuch

Hilde Hubbuch (born Hilde Isay on January 17, 1905 in Trier ; died on October 24, 1971 in New York , USA ) was a German-American photographer . In 1931 she studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau .

Life

Hilde Isay was the only daughter of a Jewish banking and trading family. In the winter semester of 1925/26 she began studying at the Baden State Art School in Karlsruhe . Her drawing teacher there was the painter Karl Hubbuch , a leading exponent of the New Objectivity . Isay and Hubbuch began a love affair. Isay's father disapproved of this and hired a private detective to surprise the couple in a hotel room. Under pressure, Isay and Hubbuch married on January 4, 1928 in Trier.

At the beginning of their marriage, Hilde Hubbuch was the model for her husband as the epitome of the New Woman (for example for the painting "Viermal Hilde", 1929). She herself began to take photos at this point at the latest. Her husband apparently received the impetus from her to deal with this new medium. Together they created a series of ironic self-portraits. They used the latest portable technology at the time (a Zeiss-Ikon Cocarette I Lux 521/2). She also documented their life together in photographs, including her husband's preference for nude models.

In the summer of 1931, Hilde Hubbuch enrolled at the Bauhaus in Dessau as a guest student - possibly at the suggestion of Ellen Rosenberg and Liselotte Billigheimer . She attended Walter Peterhans' photography class and courses in handicrafts, artistic design and writing. She grew too quickly into a tech-savvy portrait photographer with a fresh outlook on the modern woman. The political photographer Irena Blühová and Hilde Hubbuch photographed each other. Hubbuch did not graduate with a Bauhaus diploma. According to Peterhans' notes, she refused a Bauhaus degree.

When the Bauhaus in Dessau was closed in 1932, Hubbuch went to Vienna with her mother and took a job in Max Fau's press office. At that time, their marriage was already in crisis, partly because of her husband's numerous affairs. In 1935 the couple divorced.

After the death of her mother and as National Socialism gained more and more influence in Austria , Hubbuch left Vienna and moved to London to live with her uncle. In January 1939 she emigrated to the USA, where she was registered as Hilde Hubbuck. She lived under this name in New York and worked as a photographer, especially in children and society photography. Her clients included Norman Mailer and the editor of the New Yorker , William Shaw . In the following years she visited Europe several times, in 1962 even her divorced husband and his second wife Ellen Hubbuch.

Hilde Hubbuch died in 1971. Her photos are now part of the collections of the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin , the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

literature

Klaus Honnef , Frank Weyers: And they… had to leave Germany. Photographers and their pictures 1928–1997 . Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-932584-02-3 , p. 250-251 .
Ulrich Pohlmann, Karin Koschkar (Ed.): Karl Hubbuch and the New Seeing. Photographs, paintings, drawings 1925–1945 . Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8296-0560-1 .
Gerd Presler: The crazy love story of Hilde Isay and Karl Hubbuch . In: Weltkunst . February 13, 2017 ( weltkunst.de ).
Hilde Hubbuch . In: Patrick Rössler , Elizabeth Otto : Women at the Bauhaus. Pioneering modern artists. Knesebeck, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-95728-230-9 . Pp. 180-183.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Karin Koschkar: Hilde Hubbuch - between Karlsruhe, Dessau and New York . In: Ulrich Pohlmann, Karin Koschkar (Hrsg.): Karl Hubbuch and the new seeing. Photographs, paintings, drawings 1925–1945 . Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8296-0560-1 , p. 188-190 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Hilde Hubbuch . In: Patrick Rössler, Elizabeth Otto (Ed.): Women at the Bauhaus. Pioneering modern artists . Knesebeck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-95728-230-9 , pp. 180-183 .
^ ^A ^b Sylvia Bieber: The Badische Landeskunstschule in Karlsruhe and photography - a sketch . In: Ulrich Pohlmann, Karin Koschkar (Hrsg.): Karl Hubbuch and the new seeing. Photographs, paintings, drawings 1925–1945 . Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8296-0560-1 , p. 21-26 , 24 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hubbuch, Hilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Isay, Hilde (maiden name); Hubbuck, Hilde (name after emigration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 17, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	trier
DATE OF DEATH	October 24, 1971
Place of death	New York , USA

[:1-1] A ^b ^c ^d Karin Koschkar: Hilde Hubbuch - between Karlsruhe, Dessau and New York . In: Ulrich Pohlmann, Karin Koschkar (Hrsg.): Karl Hubbuch and the new seeing. Photographs, paintings, drawings 1925–1945 . Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8296-0560-1 , p. 188-190 .

[:0-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Hilde Hubbuch . In: Patrick Rössler, Elizabeth Otto (Ed.): Women at the Bauhaus. Pioneering modern artists . Knesebeck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-95728-230-9 , pp. 180-183 .

[Bieber-3] A ^b Sylvia Bieber: The Badische Landeskunstschule in Karlsruhe and photography - a sketch . In: Ulrich Pohlmann, Karin Koschkar (Hrsg.): Karl Hubbuch and the new seeing. Photographs, paintings, drawings 1925–1945 . Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8296-0560-1 , p. 21-26 , 24 .