Hildegard Heise
Hildegard Heise (born June 1, 1897 in Lübeck , † December 19, 1979 in Hamburg ) was a German photographer of the New Objectivity .
Life
Hildegard Heise was born as the daughter of the Lübeck mayor Johann Martin Andreas Neumann and attended the Lübeck Lyceum until 1913 , from which the Thomas Mann School later emerged. From 1916 to 1919, during the First World War, she initially trained in social professions in Lübeck and Berlin and became a kindergarten teacher and infant carer. In 1920 she worked as a school caretaker in her hometown. There she married the museum director and Behnhaus founder Carl Georg Heise in 1922 .
From 1928 she began an apprenticeship as a photographer with Albert Renger-Patzsch in Bad Harzburg , with whom she remained connected until his death in 1966.
In the next phase of training, she spent several months with Hans Finsler at Burg Giebichenstein and then with Grete Kolliner (1892-1933) in Vienna for another three months . From 1934 to 1945 Heises then lived in Berlin as the apartment neighbor of Theodor Heuss , where her husband, who had not gone into exile on Thomas Mann's recommendation , worked as a consultant for Gebr. Mann Verlag . From 1945 Heises lived in Hamburg , where Heise was director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle until 1955 . In 1960 they both moved to Nussdorf am Inn . At an advanced age, the childless couple lived in the Augustinum residential building in Mölln from 1973 and in a senior citizens' residence on Klövensteen in Hamburg-Rissen from 1975 .
After the death of her friend Anita Rée in 1935, she photographed all the pictures in the estate before they were distributed to the friends of Rées by their executor, thus creating important evidence of her artistic work before it was ostracized as Degenerate Art .
Works
- The Lübeck Organ Book. Introduction by Walter Kraft . 24 pictures by Hildegard Heise Lübeck: Nordic Society [1931]
- with Carl Georg Heise (ed.): Anita Rée: Hamburg, 1885-1933. A memorial book from her friends. Hamburg: Christians [1968]
- Photographic recordings from four decades , Hamburg 1975
literature
- Memorial words for Carl Georg Heise and Hildegard Heise geb. Neumann , Stamperia Valdonega, Verona 1980
Web links
- Heise, Hildegard in the virtual art exhibition The Faces of the German Art Archive of the German Art Archive at the Germanic National Museum
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heise, Hildegard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer of the New Objectivity |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th December 1979 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |