Jakob Rosner (photographer)

Jakob Rosner , also Yaakov Rosner, Hebrew יעקב רוזנר, (born 1902 in Munich ; died August 26, 1950 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli photographer.

Life

Jakob Rosner joined the Zionist youth organization Blau-Weiß as a child . From 1920 he attended the commercial college in Munich and from 1922 studied economics at the University of Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1926. Rosner married Margot Klausner , they had a daughter. The marriage was soon divorced, and Rosner married a second time in 1932.

In 1926/27 Rosner traveled to the USA and met the photographer Alfred Stieglitz there , which strongly influenced his work. From 1927 Rosner worked in the advertising department of the Leiser shoe store in Berlin. He became a member of the Society of German Photographers (GDL).

Rosner emigrated to Palestine in 1936 , which he had already visited several times before, he lived in Tel Aviv . Rosner worked as a chief photographer for the Jewish National Fund (KKL). He is one of the photographers who documented the settlers' construction work. He also worked with the commercial artist Franz Krausz on advertising and propaganda brochures. In 1944 he had an exhibition of his photographs in Jerusalem . Rosner published several illustrated books. His photo essay on the exodus of the Yemeni Jews is unpublished.

His daughter Miriam Spielman gave his estate to the Israel Museum , which was able to put the photos in the public domain from 2001 due to Israeli law .

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Exhibitions (selection)

• Jakob Rosner: A Palestine picture book . New York: Schocken Books, 1947
• Tatjana Neef (Ed.): Unexposed - unexposed. Munich photographers in exile . (Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Jewish Museum in Munich). Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86828-130-9 .
• Klaus Honnef , Frank Weyers: And they left Germany ... had to: Photographers and their pictures 1928–1997 Exhibition Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, May 15–24. August 1997. Cologne: PROAG, 1997 ISBN 3-932584-02-3 , pp. 411-414

Web links

Commons : Photographs by Jakob Rosner  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Jakob Rosner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Jakob Rosner in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Yaakov (Jack) Rosner , at Israel Museum Jerusalem (imj)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The year of birth at Honnef, Weyers, 1997, is 1903, its source is information from the daughter
2. ^ Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner (Ed.): Photography 1919 - 1979 made in Germany: the GDL photographers . Frankfurt am Main: Umschau-Verlag, 1979 ISBN 3-524-68007-0 , pp. 208-211
3. ^ Benjamin Ivry: Munich Photographers in Palestine , The Forward , July 21, 2010 (en)