Hildegard Rosenthal

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Hildegard Rosenthal (born in 1913 as Hildegard tree in Zurich ; d. 1990 in São Paulo ) was a photographer who as a pioneer of Brazilian photojournalism became known.

Life

Hildegard Rosenthal's parents were German. She spent her youth in Frankfurt am Main . After a two-year stay in Paris, she trained as a photographer with Paul Wolff and worked for Rhein-Mainischer Bildverlag. In 1937 she emigrated from Nazi Germany to Brazil. In São Paulo she was hired by a press agency. Her photo reports from São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and cities in southern Brazil have appeared in the national and international press.

Rosenthal captured urban scenes in São Paulo in 3,000 black and white photographs over a period of ten years. They document the growth of the Brazilian metropolis during the 1940s and the changes in urban life. On her forays through the city, she found the ease of a Leica camera useful, which she had learned to work with from Paul Wolff. Her primary interest was people in public spaces. Although her pictures were not of a political nature, they help to understand the social upheavals of those years. According to David William Foster, her photographs also reveal the dominance of men of all ages in public.

In 1974 the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo dedicated a retrospective to her. In 1977 and 1979 she was represented at the São Paulo Biennale . All of your original photographic material has been archived at the Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS) since 1996 .

Publications

  • Cenas Urbanas , ed. v. Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo 1999, ISBN 978-85-7979-060-7
  • Metropolis. Hildegard Rosenthal , text: Maria Luiza de Oliveira, Beatriz Bracher, ed. v. Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo 2010, ISBN 978-85-86707-50-6

literature

  • David William Foster: Downtown in São Paulo with Hildegard Rosenthal's Camera . In: Luso-Brazilian-Review , Vol. 42, No. 1 (2005), pp. 118–135 ( Preview )

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to David William Foster, Hildegard Rosenthal, born in Switzerland, was registered in Brazil with the nationality: German.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David William Foster: Downtown in São Paulo with Hildegard Rosenthal's Camera . In: Luso-Brazilian-Review, Vol. 42, No. 1 (2005), pp. 118-123
  2. ^ David William Foster: Downtown in São Paulo with Hildegard Rosenthal's Camera . In: Luso-Brazilian-Review, Vol. 42, No. 1 (2005), p. 127
  3. ↑ Martina Merklinger: The São Paulo Biennale. Cultural exchange between Brazil and the young Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1954) , Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2279-9 , p. 16, fn7
personal data
SURNAME Rosenthal, Hildegard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baum, Hildegard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-German photojournalist in Brazil
DATE OF BIRTH 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH 1990
Place of death São Paulo