Hildegard Jackel

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Hildegard Jäckel (born June 3, 1903 in Dresden ; † March 2, 1974 there ) was a German photographer. Due to her series of pictures about the conductor Rudolf Kempe , published in 1954 , she was accepted into the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

Portrait of the photographer Hildegard Jäckel, Jan. 1964, SLUB Dresden / Deutsche Fotothek

Life

Hildegard Jäckel was born in Dresden as the daughter of the master sculptor Paul Jäckel and his wife Martha. She grew up on Krügerstrasse in the Oberloschwitz district with her siblings Hertha and Heinz. The then well-known photographer Benno Wiehr, owner and owner of a photo shop with a portrait studio, gave her the opportunity to complete an apprenticeship as a photographer.

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Jäckel was an important photographer from the 1920s to the 1950s and was considered a master of portraiture. She worked in East and West Germany and devoted herself exclusively to black and white photography in medium format . Her work style was shaped by the pictorial tradition of bourgeois self-portrayal, objective and self-controlled. Mostly portraits were taken, but also some landscape and architecture photos. Her sensitive portraits of mostly bourgeois public figures and private individuals, mostly from Dresden, were largely created in her studio. In 1944 she created a series of portraits by Richard Strauss , and in 1953 she was commissioned to photograph Carl Orff in his Munich apartment. The portrait series by General Music Director Rudolf Kempe is a successful example of her work outside the studio or outside the artist's living room.

Between 1935 and 1938 her studio was in the skyscraper on Albertplatz in Inner Neustadt , later, with the support of acquaintances, she moved to Prager Straße 18 II. Around 1943 she moved her work space to the Südvorstadt , Bayreuther Straße 40 III. Bombed out in Bayreuther Strasse , most of her photographic work was destroyed before 1945. After the war she changed her address several times until she finally retired in 1958 to the house of her childhood on Krügerstrasse in Dresden. The Jäckels archive, which is still extensive, has come down to us in various states of preservation and whose negatives were seriously endangered in their existence, was acquired by the Saxon State Library in 1985 and digitized as part of the KUR project and thus saved from physical deterioration. The Deutsche Fotothek Dresden is now home to Jäckel's photographic estate of around 12,500 pictures from 1945 to 1967.

exhibition

  • 2003: Coffee Wippler in Dresden-Loschwitz, Körnerplatz 2: Photograph by Hildegard Jäckel on the occasion of her 100th birthday

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Bove : Saved my head. In: Dresdner Geschichtsbuch 15, Dresden 2010, Ed .: Stadtmuseum Dresden , Friedrich Reichert. P. 228
  2. ↑ a b c Jens Bove: Saved my head. P. 224.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Frohse: Die Photographer Hildegard Jäckel , in: Elbhangkurier , June 1998, p. 8
  4. ↑ Jens Bove: Saved my head. P. 232
  5. ↑ Jens Bove: Saved my head. P. 227
  6. ↑ Exemplary backup of German visual history 1945–1960 in http://www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de
  7. ↑ Jens Bove: Saved my head. P. 223
personal data
SURNAME Jackel, Hildegard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 2nd 1974
Place of death Dresden