Leo Weisse
Leo Weisse (born June 22, 1911 in Moscow , † September 2000 in Saint-Martin-de-l'Arçon ) was a German photographer .
Life
After the October Revolution , the divorced mother was expelled to Siberia with Weisse and two siblings . After relatives in Switzerland brought the family to Germany, he began training as an engineer in Berlin . In 1940 he was called up for military service.
In the 1950s he founded the company Löb und Weisse together with Karl Löb . Leo Weisse made a name for himself as a set photographer and was hired for German and international film productions. He provided, among other things, the photographic documentation on Confessions of the impostor Felix Krull (1957), The Dead Ship (1959), The Inn on the Thames (1962), The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975), Fabian (1979/1980), Das Traumhaus (1980), Veronika Voss' Sehnsucht (1981/1982) and many more. Teampress Helmut Ludwig, Leo Weisse was founded in the 1960s . Weisse was involved in numerous film productions by Munich production companies and became a sought-after scene photographer in Munich. Among other things, there was a collaboration with the theater director Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the following years .
1971 accompanied Leo White on behalf of Munich's Constantin Film in February Andy Warhol and members of the New York Factory on the promotional tour for the film Trash (1970) by West Germany. In this context, part of the recordings went to the German Press Agency . In 2014 the pictures of the commissioned work were exhibited for the first time in the Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen .
In 1975, Weisse played a supporting role in the film adaptation of Heinrich Böll's novel The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (photographer Schönner). He also took part in the film Your Tenderness (1969).
He died in September 2000 in Saint-Martin-de-l'Arçon in southern France.
family
Leo Weisse was married to the poet and painter Drosera Eva Weisse (* 1928). The marriage resulted in two sons, Simon Weisse and Markus – Anatol Weisse; The 1999 documentary Die Markus Family by Elfi Mikesch is about his life in France and his trip to Berlin with his mother .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2012: Andy Warhol in Germany (1971) - photographs by Leo Weisse , Galerie Simon Krätz, Kassel
- 2014: Pop-Artist , Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen .
More photos by Weisse could also be seen in other Warhol exhibitions.
Web links
- Leo White in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Photos by Leo Weisse in the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main
- Leo Weisse at filmportal.de , accessed on November 17, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cornelia Lütkemeyer: When Pop Came to Germany ( Frankfurter Allgemeine , January 29, 2015, accessed November 12, 2015)
- ↑ Quoted from Weblink Internet Movie Database
- ^ The Markus Family International Film Festival Berlin 2000 .
- ↑ New Warhol photos emerged. ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Art - Das Kunstmagazin , August 24, 2012.
- ↑ Warhol im Ruhrpott , art-scene.tv, January 23, 2014.
- ^ Gerd Ohlhauser: Andy Warhol in Darmstadt. In: Edition Darmstadt , Surface Book, November 21, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weisse, Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 2000 |
| Place of death | Saint-Martin-de-l'Arçon |