Paul Swiridoff

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Paul Swiridoff (born May 7, 1914 in Wladikawkas / Caucasus ; † May 17, 2002 in Künzelsau ) was a German photographer , essayist , publicist and founder of the publishing house.

Life

Paul Swiridoff was born in the Caucasus in 1914, and was confronted with death, hunger and flight at an early age. At the age of 16 he came to Germany and lived off odd jobs. Swiridoff lived in Berlin from 1934 to 1940. There he was able to work as a photo lab technician. From 1940 he lived in Ludwigsburg for ten years, where he opened a photo studio after the end of the war. In 1950 he moved to Schwäbisch Hall, where he ran his own photo studio until 1980. He was one of the first in Germany to open an art gallery that rehabilitated the art of artists who had not been qualified as "degenerate" not long before. Among other things, Swiridoff was editor-in-chief and publisher of the Würth Report company newspaper of the global Würth Group from 1971 to 1991 .

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At the beginning of his photographic work, Swiridoff dealt with landscapes and cityscapes. But he became famous for his portraits . In 1961, the face was the only photo book to be named one of the most beautiful books of the year. The illustrated book Portraits from Spiritual Germany from 1965 is one of the standard works of the genre.

At that time he founded the Paul Swiridoff Schwäbisch Hall publishing house , in which several city picture volumes were published (“neue series”), including Heidenheim with works by HAP Grieshaber and texts by the writer Margarete Hannsmann . In the photo volume Faces of an Epoch (1997), his 50th book, Swiridoff captured a period of 50 years with pictures of important personalities. Today the Swiridoff Verlag is part of the Würth group of companies. Its namesake was the inspiration for the entrepreneur Reinhold Würth , who subsequently became an important art patron of the present. At the end of his life he was hardly able to take photos himself due to an eye problem and therefore concentrated more on the literary. By 1946 his book of poetry was published by Hans Müller in Stuttgart An autumn appeared, in 2001 he published the book of essays beloved enemy .

Portrait photography

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Paul Swiridoff portrayed, among others: Hermann Hesse , Erich Maria Remarque , Marcel Reich-Ranicki , Max Frisch , Ernst Bloch , Christa Wolf , Elisabeth Flickenschildt , Konrad Adenauer , Otto Hahn , Werner Heisenberg , Hildegard Hamm-Brücher , Helmut Schmidt , Fritz Winter , HAP Grieshaber , Wolf Jobst Siedler , Heinz Berggruen , Richard von Weizsäcker , Marion Countess Dönhoff , Günter Grass , Erhard Eppler , Willy Brandt , Karl Jaspers , Martin Heidegger , Helmut Kohl , Hans Küng , Roman Herzog , Karlheinz Deschner , Horst Eberhard Richter , Botho Strauss , Walter Gropius , Edzard Reuter , Horst Kleiner , Reinhold and Carmen Würth , Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann , Lothar Späth , Christian Meier , Heinz Maier-Leibnitz , Günther Uecker , Marcus Bierich , Hans Lutz Merkle , Markus Lüpertz , Oswald Mathias Ungers , Erwin Teufel , Petra Roth , Stefan Heym , Peter Hacks , Jörn Merkert , Walter and Inge Jens , Lew Kopelew , Ernst Jünger , Erich Selbach , Theodor Sonnemann .

Exhibitions

  • 1997/1998: Museum Würth: "Encounters from 50 years"
  • 2005: LAUDA FactoryGalerie: "Faces of an Era"

Books

  • 1956: Goethes Götz von Berlichingen in Jagsthausen. Schwend publishing house
  • 1957: Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Schwend publishing house
  • 1959: The big game in the ruins of the Abbey in Bad Hersfeld. Schwend publishing house
  • 1959: Heilbronn. Add. with Otto Rombach , Verlag Schwend
  • 1960: Tübingen. As a co-author, Verlag Schwend
  • 1961: the face , Verlag Schwend
  • 1964: Bietigheim. With Otto Rombach, Verlag Neske
  • 1964: Hohenlohe. Add. with Rudolf hose , Neske publishing house
  • 1964: Böblingen. With text by Erich Kläger, Verlag Neske
  • 1965: Portraits Vol. 1 . Portraits from intellectual Germany, Verlag Neske
  • 1966: Lambarene. Publishing house Neske
  • 1966: Portraits Vol. 2. Portraits from the German economy, Neske publishing house
  • 1967: Schwäbisch Hall. Add. with Rudolf hose, Neske publishing house
  • 1967: Hersfeld Scenes, Verlag Neske
  • 1966: Land around Teck and Neuffen, Verlag Zimmermann
  • 1968: Portraits Vol. 3. Portraits from Political Germany, Neske Verlag
  • 1968: here good Württemberg all the way. Add. with Rudolf hose, Neske publishing house
  • 1969: Hohenlohe. Add. with Rudolf hose, Neske publishing house
  • 1969: Heilbronn. Eppinger publishing house
  • 1969: Schwäbisch Hall. Together with Oliver Storz , Verlag Eppinger
  • 1969: Tübingen. Publishing house Neske
  • 1971: Bonn. Verlag Neske (Swiridoff illustrated books, Volume 23)
  • 1973: Heidenheim. Verlag Paul Swiridoff (woodcuts by HAP Grieshaber in the appendix)
  • 2000: Beloved Enemy and More Satires. Swiridoff Publishing House
  • 2008: Photography, the photographic life's work. ISBN 978-3-934350-78-6 .
  • 2008: Faces of an Era. Encounters from five decades . With contributions by Marion Dönhoff and Erhard Eppler . ISBN 978-3-89929-136-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Swiridoff, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Vladikavkaz
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 2002
Place of death Künzelsau