Hilde Lotz-Bauer

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Hilde Lotz-Bauer (born March 31, 1907 in Munich as Hilde Bauer ; † February 8, 1999 there ) was a German photographer and art historian .

life and work

Hilde Bauer attended elementary school in Bogenhausen from 1913 , then from 1917 to 1920 a secondary school for girls and then until 1925 a girls ' high school in Munich.

From 1928 she studied art history at the University of Munich and received her doctorate in 1931 under Wilhelm Pinder . She then completed her photography training at the Bavarian State College for Photography in Munich by 1933 . From 1935 she worked together with her first husband, the art historian Bernhard Degenhart , in Italy at the Art History Institute in Florence and at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome. In 1939 the marriage with Bernhard Degenhart was divorced.

At the Kunsthistorisches Institut in 1939 she met Wolfgang Lotz , whom she married on August 5, 1941 and with whom she returned to Munich in September 1943. Wolfgang Lotz and Hilde Lotz-Bauer had a son (* 1942) and two daughters (* 1946, * 1948). From 1953 to 1962 she worked in the USA , where her husband had taken on a professorship, and from 1962 back at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, which Wolfgang Lotz was director until 1980. In 1981 her husband died after a heart attack.

Hilde Lotz-Bauer returned to Munich in 1984. There she died almost blind in 1999. She was buried next to her husband on the Cimitero acattolico in Rome .

The focus of Hilde Lotz-Bauer's photographic work was on architectural and industrial photography , object photography and reportage photography . Her photographic style shows a closeness to Henri Cartier-Bresson , her portraits reveal an influence by August Sander .

Her photographic work has been shown in several exhibitions, for example in 1977 in the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, in 1980 in the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, in 1981 in the Science Center in Bonn, in 1993 at the Reiss Museum in Mannheim and in 2008 in Scanno . In 1985 she bequeathed around 7,000 small picture negatives with photos from Italy to the German photographer Franz Schlechter, who built up the Hilde Lotz-Bauer photo archive. Part of her artistic estate (around 750 photos) is in the possession of the Art History Institute in Florence. On the occasion of her hundredth birthday, a selection of these photos was shown in an online exhibition.

Fonts

  • The sculpture by the brothers Martin and Michael Zürn. Dissertation. University of Munich 1931. Gatzer & Hahn, Schramberg (Black Forest) 1941.

literature

  • Corinna Lotz, Tamara Felicitas Hufschmidt: Hilde Lotz-Bauer. Prima tra i fotografi a portare Scanno nel mondo. One Group Edizioni, L'Aquila 2008, ISBN 978-88-89568-17-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the photo archive Hilde Lotz-Bauer
personal data
SURNAME Lotz-Bauer, Hilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1999
Place of death Munich