Max Baur (photographer)
Max Baur (born February 4, 1898 in Günzburg , † December 16, 1988 in Aschau im Chiemgau ) was a German photographer and publisher of postcards.
Life
From 1914 to 1916, Baur trained as a bookseller before he was drafted into World War I in 1917 , from which he returned in 1918 after being wounded a week before the outbreak of the November Revolution .
His first photographic activities followed in 1924. In 1928 he founded a studio and a postcard publisher in Wernigerode . In 1930 he passed the journeyman's and master's examination and was appointed to the Society of German Photographers . From 1933 he made the acquaintance of Hermann Hesse , who became a collector of his photographs, and asked him in their correspondence to do some things for him in Berlin. In 1934 Baur moved to Potsdam , where he lived and worked until 1953. In 1944, as an opponent of the Nazis and the war, he withdrew from the Wehrmacht by deserting to southern Germany.
After the war, he re-founded a postcard publisher in 1946. Architecture, industry, factual, landscape, portrait and advertising photos were taken. During this time he also made the acquaintance of the Potsdam philosopher Otfried Eberz and the writers Hermann Kasack and Werner Wilk as well as the musician Wilhelm Kempff . In 1953, Baur and the family moved from Potsdam to Aschau im Chiemgau , combined with a new economic start. In 1954 he founded a photography shop there and ran it until his death on December 16, 1988. The focus of photography during this time was photography of Bavarian landscapes and baroque churches, the work of the historical sculptors Tilman Riemenschneider and Ignaz Günther, and the publication of calendars and books.
The actor Reimar Johannes Baur , born in 1928, is his son.
Act
With his idiosyncratic artistic work as well as his commissioned photography for the advertising industry and industry, Baur established his own new perspectives. In his architecture and industrial photography, Max Baur anticipates the formal means of expression used by today's contemporary photographers. Parts of Baur's work are reminiscent of the “ New Objectivity ” style. As one of the few European landscape photographers, however, Baur has remained largely undiscovered to this day, although they are reminiscent of the great days of American landscape photography. His still lifes are reminiscent of the factual photography that was so characteristic of the Bauhaus . For the time, they were provocative, format-filling images of individual objects of simplicity and elegance, depicted in lighting and perspective . Since photography increasingly ousted the graphic arts from the field of image advertising in the 1920s , the advertising industry developed into a lucrative client for many photographers. Max Baur worked a. a. for Kodak , Siemens and numerous other companies as well as for various well-known architectural offices.
William A. Ewing, director of the Musée de l´Elysée Lausanne, writes: “ To“ write ”with light required dexterity and skill; that Baur loved calligraphy and did it as a hobby says a lot about him. Carefulness, the greatest attention to detail and sweeping lines were the hallmarks of his photography. "
White Rose
The illustration of a white rose from the Max Baurs publishing house inspired Fritz Rook, a soldier, in October 1941 to write a text about what a white rose means for him. Alexander Schmorell liked this text so much that he asked the addressee, Lilo Ramdohr , to be allowed to copy it so that he could show it to his friend Hans Scholl . The name of the anti-fascist resistance group White Rose of the same name goes back to a photo by Max Baur.
Works
Portfolios
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Publications
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Exhibitions
- 2018: Potsdam, a paradise for my camera - Max Baur. Photography in the Potsdam Museum
literature
- 1929 Das Deutsche Lichtbild, Annual Review 1930, Verlag Robert & Bruno Schultz, Berlin, p. 36.
- 1932 Das Deutsche Kind, Verlag der Eiserne Hammer, Karl Robert Langewische, Königstein and Leipzig, p. 28.
- 1933 Light is your dress, M. Feesche Verlag, Hanover, pp. 9, 19.
- 1933 Werkbund "Die Form", Wilhelm Lotz, Verlag WuSLoewenthal, Berlin, 1st edition.
- 1937 Das Deutsche Lichtbild, Bruno Schultz Verlag Berlin, p. 8.
- 1938 Der Autotourist, Verlag Gebr. Jänecke Hannover, pp. 155, 279.
- 1938 Inauguration of the new building of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, 3 fig.
- 1939 Contemporary architecture and architectural sculpture by Werner Rittich, Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 68, 75.
- 1941 Photo-Illustrierte, Berlin, 6th year No. 11, p. 2.
- 1948 Die Photography, Nr. 1, Verlag Wilhelm Knapp, Halle / Saale, p. 14.
- 1951 Die Photographie, February edition, Verl. Wilh. Knapp, Halle / Saale, p. 43.
- 1957 Die Schöne Heimat, Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, Königstein / Ts., P. 126, 137, 174, Deutsche Burgen, Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, Königstein / Ts., P. 87
- 1961 Baroque art around Ulm, Adolf Herrmann, pp. 29, 30, 32, 33, Oberammergau, foreword by Hans Obergethmann, Verlag Ludwig Simon, Munich, pp. 56, 57, 63, 66, 67.
- 1995 Friendships in the White Rose. Lilo Fürst-Ramdohr , Verlag Geschichtswerkstatt Neuhausen , p. 13.
- 1998 100 years of art on the move, Berlinische Galerie as a guest in Bonn, catalog p. 158, 159.
- 2001 Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage, Mitteilungen 1/2001, Mit dem Jahrhundert - Exhibition on the 100th birthday of Werner Wilk, pp. 1, 6.
Web links
- Official Max Baur site MaxBaur.de
- Literature by and about Max Baur in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Max Baur in the German Digital Library
- Search for Max Baur in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Max Baur (photographer) at artfacts.net
- Exhibition by Max Baur in the gallery argus fotokunst
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Baur. Photographs 1925–1960 In the spirit of the Bauhaus. Stephan Steins (editor). Essay by William A. Ewing, Stemmle 2001
- ↑ Source: Lilo Fürst-Ramdohr "Friendships in the White Rose", Verlag Geschichtswerkstatt Neuhausen, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-931231-00-3
- ↑ Potsdam, a paradise for my camera - Max Baur. Photography . In: ART | DATES . ( artdates.de [accessed April 6, 2018]).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Baur, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer and postcard publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 4, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gunzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 1988 |
| Place of death | Aschau im Chiemgau |