Max Löhrich

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Max Löhrich (born March 15, 1883 in Alt-Limmritz , Sternberg district , Neumark ; † September 27, 1957 in Munich ) was a German photographer and photo reporter . As a lyricist with his own pictures and texts, he was also the editor of local literature on German landscapes .

Life

Max Löhrich was born in Alt-Limmritz in 1883 during the founding period of the German Empire as the son of a master brewer. After the early death of his mother in 1888, he grew up as a half-orphan with relatives in Fürstenberg and Berlin . At the turn of the century he also trained as a photographer in Berlin and, together with his brother Kurt, founded various press offices in Feldkirch in Vorarlberg, Austria, as well as in Innsbruck and Munich during the imperial era .

During the First World War , Löhrich's brother Kurt fell as a soldier in 1915 at the front. Max Löhrich, however, received approval as a photo reporter on the Western Front - as one of a total of 39 authorized photographers.

During the Weimar Republic , Löhrich opened a press office in Leipzig in the 1920s , initially on Fichtestrasse , then on Promenadenstrasse . Also from the 1920s and into the 1930s he may have worked directly for the Leipzig postcard publisher Trinks & Co .; at least Löhrich's recordings were marked with the abbreviation Lö in the publisher's range .

In 1929 Löhrich married the clerk Elfriede. At the beginning of the 1930s, Löhrich worked for the Berlin-based publisher August Scherl , parallel to his activities at Trinks & Co.

At the time of National Socialism and in the year of the beginning of the Second World War , Löhrich moved to Dresden , where he and his company operated as Presse-Foto Max Löhrich .

After the establishment of the German Democratic Republic, Max Löhrich moved to the Federal Republic of Germany and Munich in 1950 , then to nearby Gröbenzell in 1951 , where he ran his company Lichtbild-Archiv Löhrich at Jägerstrasse .

With the takeover of the Trinks & Co. archive, all of Löhrich's photographs in the holdings of the Deutsche Fotothek (DF) came into the DF's collection - at least no acquisitions directly from the photographer are known to date.

Max Löhrich died in Munich on September 27, 1957.

Fonts

  • From the green resin. A home book in pictures and verses , Goslar am Harz: A. Gebel, 1923
  • The resin. 48 pictures in etching style , with 2 poems by Max Löhrich, 46 pictures by Welin and one picture each signed with Mohr and Hempel , motifs from Bodetal, Blankenburg, Rübeländer Höhlen, Drei Annen Hohne, Elend, Schierke, Brocken, Braunlage, Bad Lauterberg, Wernigerode and Ilsenburg, Oldenburg in Holstein: Simonsen, [approx. 1925]
  • From Rübezahl's realm. With the author's own photographs , Goslar am Harz: [Vivithorpromenade 2], Naturbildverlag A. Gebel & Co., [1925]; contents
  • From Bavaria's beautiful mountains , Goslar am Harz: [Vivithorpromenade 2], Naturbildverlag A. Gebel & Co. 1925
  • The last Silesian damask weavers / Max Löhrich (article), in: Riesengebirgs-Buchkalender , Bd. 33, Nürnberg: Preußler, [1988], p. 127
    • also in: Braunauer Heimatkalender
  • Paul Preis (Red.): Through the Glatzer Land. Impressions and experiences on trips and hikes (= Grafschaft Glatzer Buchring ; Vol. 15/16), with pictures by Marx and Max Löhrich, Lüdenscheid: Grafschafter Bote; Leimen-Heidelberg: Marx, 1957

literature

  • Anton Holzer : Photography in Austria. History, developments, protagonists. 1890–1955 , [Vienna]: Metroverlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-99300-136-0 , p. 210; Signature there: AP 99020 H762
  • oV (Red.): His pictures depict home. On the death of the photo reporter Max Löhrich , in: Leipziger Latest Nachrichten , 1957, number 20

Remarks

  1. ↑ Sometimes the year of birth was given as 1873, compare the information from the German National Library (DNB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Hans-Ulrich Thieme, Klaus-Dieter Bernstein: Löhrich, Max in the artist database of the Deutsche Fotothek [ undated ], last accessed on June 13, 2017
  2. ↑ Compare the information from the DNB
personal data
SURNAME Löhrich, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and photo reporter
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Alt-Limmritz , Sternberg district , Neumark
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1957
Place of death Munich