Kurt Trieste
Kurt Triest (born June 9, 1907 in Nuremberg ; died August 30, 1985 in Tel Aviv ) was a German - Israeli photographer .
Life path
Trieste defied the will of his father, the timber merchant Josef Triest, and began a free artistic training as a painter. After 1930 he stayed in Berlin and Frankfurt and tried to find places to study at the art academies there before he returned to Nuremberg in 1932 and turned to photography and worked as a freelance photo reporter. On July 25, 1938, Trieste emigrated to Palestine . Triest's parents, who did not follow him to Tel Aviv but stayed in Nuremberg, were deported. Trieste later suffered all his life from self-reproach that he allowed his mother, who visited him in Tel Aviv in 1938 , to travel back to Germany.
The trace of the parents deported in 1942 is lost in the Izbica ghetto near Lublin , the inhabitants of which were almost completely murdered in the Belzec or Sobibor extermination camps . After the establishment of the State of Israel, Trieste worked as a photographer in Tel Aviv and in 1949 married Necha Markus, a German Jew from Hamburg. In 1951 Trieste gave up his photography activity and withdrew into private life. In 1980 the photo archive, believed to be lost, with around 500 negatives from Trieste's prewar work, emerged by chance. In the summer of 1983 he traveled to Germany again for an exhibition of his early photographic work in Nuremberg. Trieste died in Tel Aviv on August 30, 1985.
plant
He experimented with 35mm cameras at an early stage and won prizes in several photo competitions. Trieste was strongly influenced by the photo artist Lala Aufsberg (who also lives in Nuremberg) . Triest's photographs sometimes have a similarly expressive effect and also thrive heavily on lighting, but are less staged. Trieste saw his work as documentation for everyday life in the big city. The photographic estate is kept in the Nuremberg City Archives.
literature
- Nuremberg around 1933. Photographs by Kurt Triest. With a foreword and an introduction by Helmut Beer. Tümmels, Nuremberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-940594-04-4 ( Nuremberg photo books 4).
Web links
- Almost forgotten pictures - Kurt Triest documented the city around 1933 in: Nürnberger Zeitung of March 10, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trieste, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Israeli photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 30, 1985 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |