Janos Frecot
Janos Frecot (born March 30, 1937 in Freidorf , Romania ) is a German cultural historian , curator , photo historian, author and editor .
Life
Frecot has lived in Berlin since 1947 . There he attended the Canisius College high school run by Jesuits . His first marriage was to Barbara Frecot, nee Wollheim, who had two children. He has lived in Bad Belzig since retirement .
In the 1970s he was department secretary and exhibition organizer at the Berlin Academy of the Arts . In the meantime he worked at the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin. At the request of Eberhard Roters, Frecot was the founder and from 1978 to 2002 head of the photography collection at the Landesmuseum Berlinische Galerie .
On May 10, 2001 Janos Frecot received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .
Frecot book collection
The Frecot book collection is a privately compiled collection on the subject of life reform with overlaps with the Friedrichshagener poet circle . It consists of gray literature that has rarely been collected in libraries, so that the archive is considered unique. It contains bequests from the Fidus family . It has since been acquired as the Frecot Collection by Stanford University Libraries.
Publications
Frecot published over 40 books in publishers such as Schirmer , Anabas or Cantz , including many on Berlin.
- Janos Frecot (Ed.): Erich Salomon, With tailcoat and lens through politics and society , photographs 1928–1938. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-8296-0032-1 (for the Berlinische Galerie).
- Janos Frecot, Johann Friedrich Geist , Diethart Kerbs , (Eds.): Fidus 1868–1948. On the aesthetic practice of bourgeois escape movements . Hamburg 1997, Rogner & Bernhard at two thousand and one; ISBN 3-8077-0359-4 .
Most recently, works about Arno Schmidt appeared :
- Arno Schmidt as photographer: Developing image awareness = Arno Schmidt, photographer. Edited by Janos Frecot. With a preliminary remark by Jan Philipp Reemtsma. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-3149-2 .
literature
- Heinz-Herbert Jocks: Janos Frecot. The view of Berlin or the camera on the light side. In: Kunstforum international . 172, 2004, title: The use of photography II, p. 186 ff. ISSN 0177-3674
- Janos Frecot: Review in three sentences. In: MuseumsJournal. Berlin. Issue 2, 2002 pp. 44-47. ISSN 0933-0593
Web links
- Literature by and about Janos Frecot in the catalog of the German National Library
- The Frecot Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frecot, Janos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cultural historian, curator, photo historian, author and editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freidorf , Romania |