Richard Hauffe
Richard Hauffe (* 1878 in Vienna ; † 1933 there ) was an Austrian photographer. He was best known for his picture of the crowd in front of the Parliament building in Vienna on November 12, 1918 , the day the Republic of German Austria was proclaimed .
Life
Hauffe was born the son of a master wood turner in Vienna. Although he learned to be a printer , he was fascinated by photography from an early age . For the photo agency R. Lechner (Wilhelm Müller) he made from the mid-1890s, numerous reportage recordings about by Emperor I Franz Joseph on.
Hauffe married in 1902 Federnschmückerin Maria Kornher from Moravia , which operated a studio with several employees in Vienna. The daughter Josefa, born in 1903, died as an infant; Son Karl was born in 1905.
On the day the republic was proclaimed, Hauffe began to publish independently and under his own name. His shot of the crowd in front of the parliament on November 12, 1918, taken from Palais Epstein , became the icon of the proclamation of the Republic in Austria and has since been printed in numerous historical publications and school books.
Hauffe is considered one of the most important photographic documenters of the upheaval around the end of the First World War and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in Vienna. Apparently he was also the only photographer who got access to the first government of Karl Renner . In the 1920s he also published pictures from the fields of culture and sports, such as boxing matches .
The passionate cyclist caught a severe pericardial inflammation on a bike trip , which made him bedridden. He retired from photography in 1929 and died in 1933 at the age of 55.
Afterlife
Hauffe's role in the photographic documentation of 1918/19 was initially forgotten after his death. It was not until the exhibition The Fought for the Republic 2018/19 at the Wien Museum curated by Anton Holzer that he became known to a wider public again.
Individual evidence
- ↑ New pictures by Richard Hauffe appeared. APA /noen.at, November 20, 2018. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
- ↑ The man who snapped the upheaval. Courier , November 20, 2018. Accessed May 24, 2020.
- ↑ ibid.
literature
- Anton Holzer: The fought for republic. Catalog for the exhibition at the Wien Museum from October 25, 2018 to February 3, 2019. Residence, Vienna 2018, ISBN 9783701734771
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hauffe, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1933 |
| Place of death | Vienna |