Oswald Lübeck

Oswald Lübeck (born July 11, 1883 in Kospa ; † August 15, 1935 in Thießow ) was a German photographer . He is one of the earliest known representatives of on- board photography , a sub-genre of travel photography .

Life

Lübeck, who grew up as an orphan in his eldest brother's household, trained as a photographer and bookbinder. From 1903/1904 he traveled as an on-board photographer on the ships of the Hamburg-America Line . Until 1914 he sailed all cruise routes and traveled with almost all "pleasure ships" of HAPAG as well as in the transatlantic regular service. As a commercial passenger he was on board the Amerika , the Cleveland , the Imperator , the Empress Auguste Victoria , the Crown Princess Cecilie , the Moltke , the Oceana , the Vaterland and the Victoria Luise . Between 1911 and 1913 alone, he accompanied a total of four trips around the world . When leaving for the inauguration of the Panama Canal , Lübeck was surprised by the outbreak of war and finally had to do garrison service in Graudenz / West Prussia. Around 1920 Oswald Lübeck settled in Greifswald , where he ran a photo business that he had to give up a few years later as a result of the economic crisis. Some photographs from this period are now in the archive of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald . In 1924 he built a new existence for himself in Thiessow on Rügen by running a beach kiosk with commercial photography. Oswald Lübeck died in Thiessow on Rügen in 1935 as a result of malaria . The photographic estate of Oswald Lübeck (2000 glass plates, including 350 stereo recordings as well as around 100 hand-colored glass slides and 2,000 paper prints) is in the Deutsche Fotothek in the SLUB Dresden .

literature

• Oswald Lübeck. On-board and travel photographs from 1909 to 1914 (Deutsche Fotothek Collection series). Published by Jens Bove, Dresden: editionsz 2011, ISBN 978-3-938325-93-3

Web links

• Pictures by Oswald Lübeck in the Deutsche Fotothek
• Information on Oswald Lübeck in the Deutsche Fotothek