Max Missmann

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Theodor Max Missmann (born June 27, 1874 in Berlin ; † October 3, 1945 there ) was a German photographer.

Life

Missmann, son of a watchmaker, initially trained as a decorator, but then switched to training at the Zander & Labisch photographic studio . Missmann completed his master's degree and opened his own photo studio in 1903 at Skalitzer Straße 45, near the Görlitz train station and directly opposite the Emmaus Church . Soon after, he moved the studio to Kottbusser Ufer 57 (today: Fraenkelufer / Paul-Lincke-Ufer) and now traded under the name of Photographisches Institut für Architektur, Industrie und Illustration . The company headquarters changed several times, most recently to SW 61 in Gneisenaustraße 22 / Zossener Straße , where he lived and worked until the house was destroyed in a bomb attack in January 1944.

Missmann specialized in industrial photography and architecture and landscape photography. His recorded recordings are particularly significant as witnesses to the development of Berlin after the turn of the century (similar to those of his contemporary Waldemar Titzenthaler ). A collection of his photos is now in the Berlin State Archives .

Missmann had been married to Marie Starke since 1906 and had three daughters. He was buried in the cemetery of the Friedrichswerder community on Bergmannstrasse .

Posthumous publications

  • Wolfgang Gottschalk (Ed.): Alt-Berlin. Historical photographs by Max Missmann . Kiepenheuer, Leipzig & Weimar 1987, ISBN 3-378-00031-7 .
  • Janos Frecot, Elisabeth Moortgat (ed.): Max Missmann, photographer for architecture, industry, installation, landscape and technology . Berlin 1989 (exhibition catalog, Berlinische Galerie).
  • Wolfgang Gottschalk (Ed.): The great Berlin. Max Missmann, Photographs 1899–1935 . Argon, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-87024-176-4 .
  • Wolfgang Gottschalk (Ed.): Railway stations in Berlin. Photographs by Max Missmann 1903–1930 . Argon, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-87024-190-X .
  • Hans-Werner Klünner (ed.): Berlin places. Photographs by Max Missmann . Argon, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-87024-223-X .

Exhibitions

Web links

Commons : Max Missmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on September 6, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Missmann, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Missmann, Theodor Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1945
Place of death Berlin