Robert Spreng
Robert Spreng (born April 7, 1890 in Säckingen ; † January 15, 1969 in Basel ; resident in Reiden ) was a Swiss photographer .
biography
Robert Spreng grew up in Kleinbasel as the son of the grand ducal court photographer Robert Spreng and Emiliane Gerspach. He attended the trade school there. Then he went to apprenticeship with his father. From 1906 to 1912 his apprenticeship and traveling years took him to Paris and Munich . In addition to photography, he also trained as a painter in Munich.
From 1913 to 1967 he ran a studio for portrait, fashion, architecture and industrial photography in Basel . Spreng was a representative of the New Objectivity and an important reproduction photographer. He designed illustrated books about Konrad Witz , Niklaus Manuel , Urs Graf the Elder and Ferdinand Hodler . He was one of the in-house photographers at the Basler Kunsthalle . In 1926 he made the first Swiss color film, Swiss Alpine Post .
In 1922 he married Helene Thekla Kopp; the marriage was divorced again in 1928. In 1967 Spreng closed his studio and destroyed all glass plates and negatives . Most recently he lived in a house at Schützenmattstrasse 46 that belonged to him himself. In 1969 he bequeathed his art collection, consisting of 160 works by contemporary artists (oil paintings, watercolors, collages, drawings, glass paintings and sculptures) to his home town of Reiden in his will.
literature
- The Robert Spreng Collection, Reiden municipality . Essays by Serge Brignoni, Markus Britschgi, Robert Th. Stoll. Exhibition catalog. Reiden 1989.
Web links
- Georg Sütterlin : Spreng, Robert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . (accessed on December 28, 2016)
- Robert Spreng on FotoCH (accessed December 28, 2016)
- Robert Spreng at the Swiss Photo Foundation (accessed December 30, 2016)
- The factual photography - Robert Spreng, 1932. On the exhibition website 100 Years of the Future of the MCH Group (accessed on December 28, 2016)
- Robert Spreng Art Collection in Reiden (accessed December 30, 2016)
- Exhibition at Museum Tinguely, Basel , July 16, 2002 - October 20, 2002 (accessed on May 4, 2018)
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary of the "mourning families" in Basler Nachrichten , January 16, 1969.
- ↑ He had his studio at Clarastrasse 25, see Basel address book . Basel: Schwabe 1925 and 1940.
- ↑ First occupied in Schwarzwaldallee 138 (1925), later in Barfüsserhof (Barfüsserplatz 6), see Basel address book . Basel: Schwabe 1925, 1940 and 1960.
- ↑ Basel address book . Basel: Schwabe 1969 and 1970.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spreng, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Säckingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th January 1969 |
| Place of death | Basel |