Mauritius images
| mauritius images | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1920 in Berlin (as a publisher) |
| Seat | Mittenwald |
| management | Stefan Ploghaus (managing director and owner) |
| Number of employees | 40 |
| Branch | Picture agency |
| Website | www.mauritius-images.com |
The mauritius images GmbH is an independent, owner-run Agency , the (later Ernest) in Berlin by Ernst Mayer in 1920 originally as a publisher was founded.
history
In addition to the publishing business, Ernst Mayer brokered pictures from freelance photographers to illustrated magazines such as the BIZ and the Münchner Illustrierte Presse , sold entire series of reports and was soon financially successful. After the National Socialists came to power, he came under increasing pressure. As early as 1933, the agency was denounced as Jewish in the “Deutsche Nachrichten”. Since he had to sell the company and because of the opportunities he saw for himself after a trip to the USA, Ernst Mayer emigrated to the United States in 1935. With 5,000 pictures in his luggage and numerous contacts to photographers, he founded the “ Black Star ” photo agency in New York that same year together with Kurt Safranski and Kurt Kornfeld . After the chaos of war, Helmut Zwez, who bought mauritius images, rebuilt the archive in 1947 at the company's current location in Mittenwald. In 1969, Hans-Jörg Zwez joined his father's company, which he took over in 1972. He made mauritius images one of the leading picture agencies in Germany and Europe and temporarily maintained offices in Vienna, Stuttgart, Berlin, Hamburg and Stockholm. Stefan Ploghaus has been the company's managing director and owner since 2015.
Current situation
mauritius images is a universal picture agency that offers not only motifs from the areas of travel, nature, people, food, beauty, medicine and lifestyle but also historical picture material with a documentary character, illustrations and symbol photography. In 2019, the stock of images included over 100 million royalty-free and rights-managed images. The company cooperates with around 150 partner agencies worldwide, such as Masterfile Inc., and has over 1000 photographers under contract. With Steve Bloom, mauritius images won the Bauer Media Group's photo award in 2017 . The agency is a member of the Federal Association of Professional Image Providers (BVPA).
Web links
- Literature by and about Mauritius images in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Literature from and about Mauritius images in the catalog of the German National Library
- Company website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eva Balz, Gerd Herzog, Stefan Hördler, Henning Medert, Anne Paltian, Jan Schleusener, Elisabeth Weber, Bjoern Weigel, Christoph Kreutzmüller and Peter Woitkowski: database "Jewish businesses 1930-1945". Chair of German History in the 20th Century at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, accessed on November 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Seidmann-Freud, Tom: The book of things: A picture book for very small children. In: Smithsonian - Archives of American Art. Mauritius Verlag, Berlin, 1924, accessed on November 14, 2019 .
- ^ Brigitte Werneburg: LIFE: Life in the emigration of German photojournalists in America. Retrieved November 14, 2019 .
- ^ Zoe C. Smith: The History of Black Star Picuter Agency: "Life's" European Connection. (PDF) In: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (67th, Gainesville; FL, August 5-8; 1984) ;. August 7, 1984, pp. 8 ff , accessed on November 17, 2019 (English).
- ↑ Independence, authenticity, proximity to the customer. mauritius images (brochure, publication date unknown), accessed on November 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Fabian Wurm: Photographers have no home, in Horizont . April 14, 2005.
- ↑ Best-of-stock photo collection. In: PAGE - Design. Code. Business. January 14, 2016, accessed November 18, 2019 .
- ↑ about us - website of mauritius images GmbH. Retrieved November 14, 2019 .
- ↑ News from the most traditional German photo agency. In: PAGE - Design. Code. Business. November 22, 2017. Retrieved November 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Christof Schnürer / Alexander Johnstone: Gorillas snuggle up to victory. In: Merkur.de. May 9, 2017. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
- ^ Members. Federal Association of Professional Image Providers (BVPA), accessed on February 4, 2020 .