Hilde Löhr

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hildegard Emma Johanna Löhr (born September 11, 1897 in Wesel , † September 29, 1998 in Xanten ) was a German photographer .

Life

Hilde Löhr was a daughter of the car manufacturer August Löhr and his wife Friederike Henriette, nee. Hollow. The family lived at Wallstrasse 773/3 when she was born (later: Wallstrasse 6). From 1907 Hilde Löhr attended the municipal lyceum in her hometown, but had to break off the lyceum in January 1912 due to an illness. Hilde Löhr actually wanted to become a painter or actress, but her family did not allow that. After a traineeship in the Sonntag photo studio in Wesel, which was led by Gustav Sonntag († 1919), she completed an apprenticeship with August Sander in Cologne from 1921 to 1923 and then became an assistant to Nicola Perscheid in Berlin . In 1928 and 1929 she worked as a photographer in Switzerland ; In 1930 she moved into her own studio in her parents' house in Wesel. She created numerous portrait photos. But she became known nationwide for her landscape photos of the Lower Rhine . Löhr belonged to the Association of Niederrheinischer Künstler und Kunstfreunde, which was founded in Wesel in 1934.

From 1940 to 1945 she worked as a photographer at the Landesbildstelle Mark Brandenburg in Berlin and took pictures of monuments and landscapes, she also took photos there for a psychological institute. After the end of the war she returned to Wesel. She rebuilt her bombed parents' house on the corner of Wallstrasse and Brandstrasse in 1953, opened a new studio there and now concentrated on industrial photography .

Since Wesel was almost completely destroyed by the effects of the war in February 1945, her photos of the city in particular have been valued as documents of the earlier state. She also received many photo assignments from the city starting in the late 1940s. At annual intervals she created panoramas of the water tower, and she also took photos for the Wesel exhibition in Hagerstown in 1954. She has been a member of the North Rhine-Westphalia Arts and Crafts Association almost since it was founded.

Hilde Löhr worked as a photographer until the 1970s. She then continued to live in her house in Wesel. In 1990 she moved to a retirement home in Xanten.

After her death, Löhr's archive passed into the hands of her nephew Michael Jeske in Erkrath .

The Hilde-Löhr-Weg in Schepersfeld has been named after the photographer since 2002 .

In 2015, Löhr's pictures were on view in an exhibition in the rooms of Bauverein Wesel, which presented views of the city from the prewar period.

literature

  • House of the history of the Federal Republic of Germany (ed.): Women objective. Photographers 1940 to 1950 , Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-87909-752-6 and ISBN 3-87909-754-2 , p. 137
  • Hilde Löhr. Photographer on the Lower Rhine , Cologne / Bonn 1980, ISBN 978-3792705797 (= Weseler Museumsschriften Volume 2)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Reference date: The photographer Hilde Löhr - mediator between object and camera at www.wesel.de
  2. ↑ a b House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany (Ed.): Women objective. Photographers 1940 to 1950 , Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-87909-752-6 and ISBN 3-87909-754-2 , p. 137
  3. ^ Rolf Sachsse , Preserved archives and rescued holdings on photography from the Weimar period , 2004, p. 7 ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Andreas Rentel, Beautiful Pictures from the old Wesel , March 9, 2015 in NRZ ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Löhr, Hilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löhr, Hildegard Emma Johanna (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesel
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1998
Place of death Xanten