Karl Hugo Schmölz

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Karl Hugo Schmölz (born October 6, 1917 in Weißenhorn , † October 22, 1986 in Lahnstein ) was a German photographer .

Life

After a previous photography apprenticeship with his father Hugo Schmölz in Cologne , he continued the photo workshop after his death in 1938. In 1956 he married the photographer Walde Huth and founded the “schmölz + huth” studio with her.

Schmölz family grave in Cologne's north cemetery

Due to the intensive cooperation with his father, the commissioned work could be continued after 1938 without interruption. After his military service, Karl Hugo Schmölz documented the destruction in Cologne with his large-format camera from a strictly factual perspective (cf. the emotional perspective of the almost simultaneous photos by Hermann Claasen ). In cooperation with the great architects of the Rhineland of his time (including Adolf Abel , Bruno Paul , Dominikus Böhm , Gottfried Böhm , Hermann von Berg , Wilhelm Riphahn , Rudolf Schwarz , Hans Schilling , Joachim Schürmann ), he created an impressive documentation of the reconstruction of Cologne . In addition, Schmölz processed advertising orders, in particular from the furniture industry (including Interlübke ). After his marriage, the studio also received orders from the fashion sector.

Karl Hugo Schmölz was buried in the family grave in Cologne's north cemetery (hall 10, grave no. 119a / b).

Publications

  • Cologne - Face of a Big City , Ed. Hans Peters, Düsseldorf 1939
  • The Cologne Cathedral , published by Hans Peters, Düsseldorf 1948
  • The Siegburger Servatius Treasure , published by Hans Peters, Bad Honnef 1952
  • From the ruins, art and culture in the Rhineland and Westphalia 1945–1952 , exhibition catalog Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, 1985
  • Cologne is alive - photographs by Hugo and Karl Hugo Schmölz . Edited by Reinhold Mißelbeck , JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-7616-1157-9
  • Cathedral views - photographs of the Cologne cathedral by Karl Hugo Schmölz by Reinhold Mißelbeck and Arnold Wollf , JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7616-1308-3
  • Views of Cologne - photographs by Karl Hugo Schmölz . Edited by Reinhold Mißelbeck and Wolfram Hagspiel , JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-7616-1403-9
  • Karl Hugo Schmölz - Cologne. Architectural photographs from the fifties . Edited by Franz van der Grinten and Thomas Linden. With texts by Ulf Erdmann Ziegler and Thomas Linden. Verlag Schimer Mosel, Munich 2012

exhibition

literature

  • Roswitha Neu-Kock :  Schmölz, Karl Hugo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 259 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Karl Hugo Schmölz, architectural photographs from the fifties . - VAN DER GRINTEN, Franz and LINDEN, Thomas (eds.), With texts by Ulf Erdmann Ziegler and Thomas Linden, Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8296-0539-7 - (hardcover, 26.5 × 31 cm, 176 pages, 127 duotone plates, Ger.)
  • Karl Hugo Schmölz, Funkhaus Köln 1952, ed. v. VAN DER GRINTEN GALERIE, text by Franz van der Grinten, foreword by Konrad Adenauer, Verlag Stefan Schuelke Fine Books, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-9815348-6-3 (hardcover, 24 × 33 cm, 64 pages, German / English. )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ We are someone again and no longer build difficult , in FAZ from October 6, 2012, page 28
personal data
SURNAME Schmölz, Karl Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenhorn
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1986
Place of death Lahnstein