Max Halberstadt

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Sigmund Freud, photography, (225 × 165 mm), (handwritten dedication) Max Halberstadt (1921), blind stamp

Max Halberstadt (born May 14, 1882 in Hamburg , † December 30, 1940 in Johannesburg ) was a German portrait photographer in Hamburg. His numerous recordings of Sigmund Freud , to whose daughter Sophie he was married to, are particularly well known .

Life

Max Halberstadt was born in Hamburg in 1882 as the son of master butcher Wolf Seew Halberstadt and Mathilde Wolff. He married Sophie Freud in January 1913. The marriage resulted in two sons, Ernst Wolfgang and Heinz. Sophie died of the Spanish flu in 1920 at the age of 26 . In 1923 Halberstadt married a second time. He was a founding member of the Society of German Photographers and an expert on photographic techniques. In 1936 he had to leave Germany almost penniless under massive pressure from the National Socialists and emigrated to South Africa .

literature

  • Wilfried Weinke: Ousted, driven out, but not forgotten ... The photographers Emil Bieber , Max Halberstadt, Erich Kastan, Kurt Schallenberg ... Weingarten 2003, ISBN 3817025467 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miriam Gillis-Carlebach : Every child is my only one. Lotte Carlebach-Preuss. Face of a mother and a rabbi woman. Dölling and Galitz Hamburg 2000, p. 14 f. and 377.
  2. ^ Sigmund Freud, CG Jung: Correspondence. Edited by William McGuire, Wolfgang Sauerländer. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 1974, ISBN 3-10-022733-6 , p. 582.
  3. ^ Deviating March 15, 1913. Family news. In: Hamburger Nachrichten. (Evening edition) of March 15, 1913, p. 20

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personal data
SURNAME Halberstadt, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1940
Place of death Johannesburg