Mario von Bucovich

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Mario von Bucovich (born February 16, 1884 in Pula , Austria-Hungary ; died November 30, 1947 in Mexico City , Mexico ) was a photographer of Austrian descent.

Life

Mary Nolan (1929)

Mario Bucovich was the son of an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Navy and a Greek mother and grew up in Vienna . His father, August Bucovich (1852–1913), was the castle administrator of Empress Elisabeth in Miramare (1892), corvette captain (1894) and later worked as a railway entrepreneur. In 1892 he was raised to the hereditary Austrian baron class; with the Nobility Repeal Act of 1919, the title and privileges ceased to exist.

Mario Freiherr von Bucovich began studying mathematics and mechanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1904 . These studies he sat in Nancy in the French Lorraine continued. From 1908 to 1909 he studied electrical engineering and mechanical engineering at the Mittweida technical center in Saxony .

Bucovich began his professional career in 1909 with the Otis Elevator Company in New York City , USA , which sent him to the Russian capital St. Petersburg in 1911 . There he also dealt with the profitable sale of agricultural machinery. In 1914 he was deported to Siberia as an enemy foreigner , but was able to flee and return to St. Petersburg. From 1918 he devoted himself to repatriating the deportees who remained in Siberia, which was very difficult due to the civil war in Russia.

In the following years Bucovich worked in the art and antiques trade and settled in Berlin, where he took over Karl Schenker's photo studio in 1925 . His successes during this period included photos of celebrities, including film actors, dancers and athletes. These included B. Marlene Dietrich and Elisabeth Bergner . He was also known as a nude photographer. He published photo books about Berlin and Paris. From 1930 he moved to the United States via Wiesbaden and the cities of London and Paris, where he had studios. He illustrated an illustrated book about Manhattan in 1937 before settling in Mexico City as a society photographer in 1939. In 1947 he was killed in a traffic accident.

Publications

  • Berlin . (= The face of the cities). Albertus Verlag, Berlin 1928.
  • Paris . (= The face of the cities). Albertus Verlag, Berlin 1928.
  • Manhattan Magic. Self-published, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 1937.
  • Oaxaca . Mexico Habla, Mexico City 1942.
  • Portrait and Decorative Study , In: German Camera Almanach. A yearbook for the photography of our time 19 (1928), p. 61 and p. 156.

literature

  • Jan-Peter Domschke, Sabine Dorn, Hansgeorg Hofmann, Rosemarie Poch, Marion Stascheit: Mittweida's engineers all over the world . University of Applied Sciences Mittweida (Ed.): Mittweida 2014, p. 151

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Submerged in the upper class. In: FAZ . May 28, 2014, p. N3.
personal data
SURNAME Bucovich, Mario of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Photographer of Austrian descent
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Pula , Istria
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1947
Place of death Mexico City , Mexico