Leonore Mau

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Leonore Mau (born August 1, 1916 in Leipzig , † September 22, 2013 in Hamburg ) was a German photographer .

life and work

Mau studied stage design at the Leipzig School of Applied Arts and trained as a press photographer. She married an architect with whom she had two children. After the end of the Second World War , the family moved to Hamburg. From 1953 she worked as a photographer for various magazines, initially mainly taking architectural photos.

From 1962 she lived and worked with the writer Hubert Fichte , with whom she first traveled to Brazil in 1969. “Leonore Mau photographs the second of ecstasy as it explodes out of prayer, water, smoke, milk, blood; and its worldly counterpart, immersion. It depicts the realm of religions, holy places and actions [...] ”. In the years that followed, they explored African American religions in the Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa.

Leonore Mau last lived in Hamburg-Othmarschen . She was buried on Fichte's grave in the Nienstedten cemetery .

Exhibitions

In 2002 she showed her work in the Kunsthalle Basel . The group exhibition Economies of Time at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst was shown in 2002/2003 at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 2005 the exhibition honored Hubert Fichte and Leonore Mau. The writer and the photographer. A journey through life in the Hamburg Deichtorhallen is the life's work of Fichte and Mau. In 2007 she was represented at the Fotomuseum Winterthur in the group exhibition Paths to the Self-evident - Set 4 .

In 2014, the House of Photography in Hamburg presented a homage under the title The Second Face .

The photographer and filmmaker Nathalie David knew Mau and curated the exhibition on the artist's 100th birthday entitled Hamburg in die Welt, which was shown from November 2016 to April 2017 in the Jenisch-Haus in Hamburg .

Works (selection)

  • Portraits. Brinkmann and Bose, Berlin 2016.
  • The African American Religions . Fischer, Frankfurt / M. (together with Hubert Fichte ).
  • Psyche. Approaching the Insane in Africa . Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2005, ISBN 3-10-020730-0 (together with Hubert Fichte).
  • The children of Herodotus. A book . Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2006, ISBN 3-10-020732-7 (together with Hubert Fichte).
  • Ensemble. Pina Bausch - The Dance Theater Wuppertal - Portraits . Edition diá, St. Gallen / Berlin / São Paulo 1988.

literature

  • Ole Frahm: Scattered Strangers. On the “approach to the mentally ill” with Leonore Mau and Hubert Fichte. In: Culture & Ghosts. Issue 1 (July / September), 2006, pp. 83-103.
  • Friedrich Pfäfflin, Wilfried F. Schoeller (Eds.), Leonore Mau (Ill.): Hubert Fichte and Leonore Mau: the writer and the photographer, a journey through life. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-10069905-3 (book accompanying the exhibition of the same name in the Deichtorhallen Hamburg).
  • Ronald Kay (Ed.): Half of Life. Leonore Mau, Hubert Fichte, a photographic elegy. Dölling & Galitz, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-930802-34-1 .
  • Hubert Fichte: I bite you very gently as you say goodbye. Letters to Leonore Mau. Edited by Peter Braun. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016.

DVD

Nathalie David, this photographer is called Leonore Mau . Pitchoun Production, S. Fischer Foundation, 2005–2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Photographer Leonore Mau died at the age of 97. Lübecker Nachrichten, September 23, 2013 ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Wolfgang von Wangenheim. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , March 23, 1985.
  3. ^ Friedrich Pfäfflin, Wilfried F. Schoeller (eds.): Hubert Fichte and Leonore Mau: the writer and the photographer. S. Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 2005, p. 113.
  4. ^ Leonore Mau, August 1, 1916, Leipzig - September 22, 2013, Hamburg, photographer. Grave site: Section 21 No. 84a. Garden of the Women eV, Hamburg.
  5. ^ As guest of Hinrich Sachs: Leonore Mau, photographer. March 23 - May 12, 2002. Archive of the Kunsthalle Basel.
  6. ↑ Ursula Herrndorf: Common moments. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , September 13, 2005.
  7. ↑ The second face. Homage to Leonore Mau. February 9 - April 23, 2014. House of Photography, Deichtorhallen.
personal data
SURNAME Mau, Leonore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 22nd September 2013
Place of death Hamburg