Kurt Schallenberg

Kurt Schallenberg (born November 20, 1883 in Cologne , † September 28, 1954 in Sydney ) was a German photographer .

Live and act

Kurt Schallenberg was born in Cologne and lived in Hamburg since 1904, where he opened a photo studio in 1905 at Grindelallee 180. In June 1919 he called on German photographers to join forces, whereupon the Society of German Photographers was founded in August 1919 . Schallenberg took over the management of the company until 1922 and received a permanent membership on the occasion of its ten-year existence.

Schallenberg primarily created studio recordings and portraits, which were printed in numerous Hamburg daily and theater newspapers, especially the Hamburger Anzeiger . The people he portrayed included Carl Wilhelm Petersen , Carl August Schröder , Rudolf Roß , Hans Friedrich Blunck , Jakob Loewenberg and Fritz Schumacher . The artistically sophisticated images were praised in specialist journals such as “Das Atelier des Fotographen” and yearbooks for photography such as the “German Camera Almanac”.

Due to his Jewish origins, Schallenberg's professional situation changed when the National Socialists came to power . On the day of the boycott of Jews in early April, the shop windows of his studio were smeared with the word "Jew". The Company German Photographers closed in 1935 as part of the same circuit next Schallenberg all other Jewish members. Schallenberg was able to flee from the Reichspogromnacht and was removed from the handicrafts register by the Hamburg Chamber of Crafts on December 31, 1938 . The photographer had to sell his studio and traveled with his son to Australia via England in May 1939 . Here he worked under the name "Shalley" as an artist photographer and was able to open a new photo studio with great difficulty.

Kurt Schallenberg died on September 28, 1954 in Sydney.

literature

Wilfried Weinke: Schallenberg, Kurt . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 330 .

Kurt Schallenberg (November 20, 1883– September 28, 1954) in Wilfried Weinke: Ousted , driven out, but not forgotten . The photographers Emil Bieber , Max Halberstadt , Erich Kastan , Kurt Schallenberg. Weingarten 2003, ISBN 3-8170-2546-7 , p. 246ff.

Remarks

↑ In 1905, Schallenberg became the owner of the "JAM Kleiner" photographic studio in Steindamm 50/52, which had been in existence since 1881. In 1906 he sold it to Erich Vedepahl from Braunschweig ( Der Photograph No. 47, 1906, p. 195).

personal data
SURNAME	Schallenberg, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 20, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	September 28, 1954
Place of death	Sydney

[1] In 1905, Schallenberg became the owner of the "JAM Kleiner" photographic studio in Steindamm 50/52, which had been in existence since 1881. In 1906 he sold it to Erich Vedepahl from Braunschweig ( Der Photograph No. 47, 1906, p. 195).