Regina Relang

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Regina Relang (as Regina Lang ; born August 23, 1906 in Stuttgart , † 1989 in Munich ) was an important German fashion photographer .

life and career

Regina Lang was the daughter of the artist Paul Lang-Kurz , professor at the Stuttgart Art Academy , and his wife Minna Kurz (1877 – before 1928), a craftsman and student of Maximilian Dasio . Her sister Urs Lang-Kurz was also a photographer.

Relang studied painting at the Werkkunstschule Krefeld, the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, and the Academy at Steinplatz in Berlin. She graduated as an art teacher in 1932. This was followed by further studies at the Académie Ozenfant with the French painter Amédée Ozenfant .

Her first photographs were probably inspired by her sister Urs Lang-Kurz, who had trained as a photographer and followed her to Paris. Further inspiration came from her sister Anni Schaad , founder of the Langani jewelry workshop , for whom she took numerous fashion jewelry photos. Regina Relang taught herself to take photos.

From 1936 she published her travel reports. She toured countries across Europe between 1932 and 1939; from Mallorca to Turkey. Her fashion photographs have appeared in magazines such as French, English and American Vogue , Madame , Bild der Frau and Harper's Bazaar .

After the Second World War Relang moved to Munich. Twice a year she created photo reports on the presentations of the fashion collections in Florence, Rome, Paris and Berlin. She photographed for designers such as Christian Dior , Pierre Cardin and Yves Saint Laurent . In the 1950s and 60s Regina Relang was Germany's leading fashion photographer: in 1958, eight of the twelve covers in Madame magazine showed a Relang photograph. From 1976 to 1988 she had exhibitions all over the Federal Republic of Germany.

Regina Relang's photographic estate is in the Munich City Museum .

Awards

literature

  • Esther Ruelfs, Ulrich Pohlmann: The elegant world of Regina Relang. Fashion and reportage photography , Fotomuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit 2005, ISBN 3-7757-1588-6 (very good overview of the works, well illustrated)
  • Johannes Christoph Moderegger: Fashion Photography in Germany 1929-1955. Fashion photography in the focus of the Third Reich. BoD, Norderstedt 2000, ISBN 3-8311-0731-9 .
  • Ulrich Pohlmann, Simone Förster (ed.): The elegance of the dictatorship. Fashion photographs in German magazines 1936–1943. Catalog of the exhibition of the same name in the Munich City Museum November 9, 2001 to January 20, 2002. Wolf & Sohn, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-934609-03-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data of Regina Relang in: FemBio.
  2. Woman's lens: female photographers 1940 to 1950, House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany, Wienand 2001, 152 pages, page 139