Inge von der Ropp

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Inge von der Ropp (née Krapp ; born January 27, 1919 in Lichterfelde ; † October 28, 1989 in Cologne ) was a German architectural photographer who u. a. worked for Gottfried Böhm , Karl Hell , Hans Schilling and Fritz Schaller and their photos have been reproduced in numerous books about Cologne. As "one of the most important architecture photographers of the 1960s to 1980s" she captured the zeitgeist of Cologne architecture in the second half of the 20th century "like no other".

Life

Inge Krapp was born in 1919 in Lichterfelde (incorporated into Berlin in 1920) as the daughter of Johanna Krapp and her husband, the Air Force officer Oskar Krapp. After graduating from school, she completed a traineeship in a photography studio in Nuremberg from 1937 to 1938 , but returned to Berlin. From 1939 she was first in the Reich Labor Service and then until 1942 as a news worker in the Pomeranian Stolpmünde . In 1942 she married the Air Force officer Nicola Arved von der Ropp, who died in the war in January 1945. With her son Arved, born in 1943, Inge von der Ropp from Pomerania first fled to Austria, from where she moved to Oberkassel near Bonn in 1946 . After a professional attempt in tailoring , she completed an apprenticeship as a photographer at the Cologne factory schools and studied 1954–1955 at the State Higher Technical School for Photography (HFP) in Cologne with Pan Walther . In 1956 she graduated with a master's degree in photography and a degree in photography .

In 1956 she went freelance as a photographer for art, advertising and architecture and worked for clients such as Gerhard Marcks , Ludwig Gies , Hildegard Domizlaff and Elisabeth Treskow as well as Peter Friedrich Schneider , architect of the Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz . The motifs included u. a. the Ford works in Cologne-Niehl and the eagle in the plenary hall of the German Bundestag.

Her entry into color photography followed in 1957 with photos of the Federal Horticultural Show in Cologne, of which an extensive series of postcards was published. Together with her son Arved, who had completed a photography apprenticeship with her and set up his own color laboratory, she was able to develop her work in her own laboratory in the 1960s and 1970s and work it out according to her own ideas. Their publications were then often created under joint authorship.

In addition to the better-known names from architecture such as Gottfried Böhm, whose new town hall in Bensberg they u. a. had photographed, numerous architects of "normal architecture" were among her customers during this time. Photographically these were less interesting, so that mother and son shifted their professional focus to other topics and motifs.

After several trips to Greece and Bali in the 1970s, her recordings were published in an illustrated book and in the Merian magazine “Bali”. This was followed by trips to different regions of Spain, which also resulted in publications by DuMont-Verlag, u. a. in The Alhambra by the art historian Oleg Grabar and various calendars. From 1985 onwards a calendar was published about the Romanesque churches in Cologne .

Inge von der Ropp died in Cologne in 1989. Her estate, which comprises 12,000 photos and negatives on 19 shelf meters, was acquired by the Cologne City Historical Archive in 1992 . On the occasion of her 100th birthday in 2019, the archive dedicated its 2020 annual calendar to her.

Publications

  • Peter Steiner: St. Markus in Recklinghausen . Small art guide 947. Schnell & Steiner, Munich 1970, OCLC 312230599 .
  • Günter Schmidt: Ostseebad Stolpmünde: a supplement to the Stolpmünder Chronik published in 1936 . Pommerscher Buchversand, Hamburg 1973, OCLC 915778517 .
  • Rolf Blaeser: Andalusia: Spain's Moorish South . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1974, ISBN 3-7701-1489-2 .
  • Merian travel guide to Bali . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-455-27810-8 .
  • Hermann Schreiber: Half moon over Granada . Original recordings by Inge and Arved von der Ropp. Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1982, ISBN 3-404-64055-1 .
  • Light over Hellas . (Preface by Evi Melas). DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-7701-1610-0 .
  • Friedhelm Hofmann: Adventure Cologne Cathedral . Photos by Inge and Arved von der Ropp. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 1988, ISBN 3-7954-0467-3 .
  • Manuel Casamar, Christiane Kugel, Arved von der Ropp: La España árabe: legado de un paraíso . Editorial Casariego, Madrid 1990, ISBN 84-86760-08-9 (Spanish).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ropp, Inge von der (Order 1466). In: historischesarchivkoeln.de. Historical Archive of the City of Cologne, May 1997, accessed on December 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Annual calendar of the historical archive shows photos by Inge von der Ropp. In: report-k.de. September 8, 2019, accessed December 3, 2019 .
  3. ^ Bettina Schmidt-Czaia : Inge von der Ropp. A photographer sees Cologne . Ed .: City of Cologne Historical Archive. 1st edition. Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-928907-40-8 .
  4. ↑ Stephan Eppinger: 2020: Cologne from the perspective of a photographer. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. September 17, 2019, accessed December 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ropp, Inge von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krapp, Inge (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architecture photographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Lichterfelde
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1989
Place of death Cologne