Rolf H. Krauss

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Rolf Herbert Krauss (born December 13, 1930 in Stuttgart ; † January 2, 2021 there ) was a German businessman , entrepreneur , photographer , collector , author and art historian .

Life

Rolf H. Krauss studied state economics at the University of Munich from 1952 and received his doctorate in 1956 with the thesis The company suggestion system as a means of rationalization and social organization . From 1956 to 1991 he was the third generation to run G. A. Krauss KG, based in Königstrasse in Stuttgart , until he sold it in 1991. From 1977 to 1996 he was chairman of the history section of the German Society for Photography . From 1991 he studied art history and German at the University of Stuttgart and received his doctorate in 1999 with the thesisPhotography and literature, on photographic perception in German-language literature of the nineteenth century . From 1999 to 2004 Krauss worked as a lecturer for art history of photography at the Institute for Art History at the University of Stuttgart.

Krauss was a collector's personality, about whom he gave self-assessment in his book “I collect, so am I” (2019). His most famous collection contained photographic aspects of concept art. These works were taken over by the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart . Krauss also made his own artistic contributions [“succession”] to the tension between photography and art, which were exhibited and published several times. His most comprehensive collection, however, concerned photographic literature from its beginnings to the present day, in all its historical and theoretical aspects, which Krauss had compiled with the basic idea of ​​serving as a source of research. She is now called “Dr. Rolf H. Krauss Research Library “Part of the University Library of Marburg . In connection with the development of his library, Krauss developed a particular interest in early publications on and with color reproduction processes. Finally, Krauss sponsored a publication on Hans Hildenbrand, a Baden-Württemberg pioneer of autochrome photography, and his marketing strategies. Krauss has published numerous articles on photo-historical topics and was a member of the Advisory Board of the European Society for the History of Photography. He died in early 2021, three weeks after his 90th birthday.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1975 International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House , Rochester, NY, USA
  • 1977 Art8'77, Basel
  • 1977 Fotoforum Kassel
  • 1977 PPS Gallery Hamburg (with catalog)
  • 1978 Gallery of the German Society for Photography, Cologne
  • 1981 Galerie Max Hetzler, Stuttgart (with catalog)
  • 1994 Gallery of the City of Stuttgart (with catalog)

Group exhibitions

  • 1977 series of photos by contemporary artists, Galerie Max Hetzler, Stuttgart
  • 1977 Photography as Art, Art as Photography II, Lodz and Warsaw, Poland
  • 1978 Photography as Art, Art as Photography II, Dallas, USA
  • 1979 Photography as Art, Art as Photography II, London
  • 1980 Rejection of the single image, experience with image sequences in photography in the 1970s, Museum Folkwang, Essen
  • 1983 Art with Photography, National Gallery, Berlin; Cologne Art Association
  • 1984 Art with Photography, Munich City Museum; Kiel art gallery
  • 1994 Trains, trains, the railroad in contemporary art, gallery of the city of Esslingen and others.
  • 2003 Photo-Art, 1852–2002, the collection, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart / Graphic Collection, Stuttgart
  • 2006 True Signs, Photography and Science, University Collections Art + Technology, ALTANAGalerie, Dresden

Books

  • Collection Dr. RH Krauss, books and other documentations on photography, Stuttgart 1975
  • The photography in the caricature, Seebruck, Heering Verlag 1978 (Italian: Roma, Cesco Ciapanna Editore 1979)
  • Photography as a medium, 10 theses on conventional and conceptual photography, Berlin, A. Nagel 1977 (2nd edition Stuttgart, Cantz 1995), ISBN 3-89322-707-5
  • with Frank Heidtmann and Hans-Joachim Bresemann: Die deutsche Photoliteratur 1839–1978, theory, technology, image performance, a systematic bibliography of independent German-language photographic literature, Munich, Saur 1980
  • with Max Hetzler Krauss, ONE, TWO; ONE, AND, TWO, successions, Stuttgart 1981
  • with Manfred Schmalriede and Michael Schwarz: Art with Photography, Berlin, Frölich & Kaufmann 1983, ISBN 3-88725-003-6
  • Beyond light and shadow. The role of photography in certain paranormal phenomena, a historical outline, Marburg, Jonas Verlag 1992, ISBN 3-89445-122-X (Beyond Light and Shadow. The Role of Photography in Certain Paranormal Phenomena. An Historical Survey. Munich, Nazraeli 1995, ISBN 3-923922-38-8 )
  • Walter Benjamin and the new view of photography, Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz 1998, ISBN 3-89322-429-7
  • Photography and literature, on photographic perception in German-language literature of the nineteenth century, Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz 2000, ISBN 3-7757-0854-5
  • with Gottfried Jäger and Beate Reese: Concrete Photography, Konkrete Fotografie, Bielefeld, Kerber 2005, ISBN 3-936646-74-0
  • Art with photography and other selected texts on photography, Bielefeld, Kerber 2006, ISBN 3-938025-62-X
  • Karl May and photography, four approaches, Marburg, Jonas Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-89445-456-2
  • Hölderlinstrasse 3, Pictures of an Apartment, Photography and Memory, Marburg, Jonas Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-89445-477-7
  • Laughter and the camera, a different history of photography, Bielefeld, Kerber 2015, ISBN 978-3-7356-0153-7
  • Laughter and the Camera, a Different History of Photography, Bielefeld, Kerber, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7356-0205-3
  • Insights, twelve essays about photography and one about the railroad, Bielefeld, Kerber, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7356-0323-4
  • Laughter as a weapon. Great inventions around 1900 in caricature and satire. Photography, bicycle, car, airplane, Bielefeld, Berlin, Kerber 2018, ISBN 978-3-7356-4031-4
  • I collect, therefore I am. Collecting as a life plan, Bielefeld, Berlin, Kerber 2019, ISBN 978-3-7356-0554-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family obituary, January 9, 2021, accessed on January 14, 2021
  2. ↑ Jonas Publisher: Rolf H. Krauss. In: Onlinelexikon Literaturkritik.de, Krauss, Rolf H. April 2012, accessed on July 22, 2016
  3. ↑ German National Library. Rolf H. Krauss , accessed on July 22, 2016
  4. ^ Adam, Hans Christian (arrangement): Hans Hildenbrand - court photographer and pioneer of early color photography. Ed .: House of History Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart. Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher, Heidelberg, Basel 2018, ISBN 978-3-95505-096-2 , p. 296 .
  5. ↑ Photographer Wiki Rolf H. Krauss , accessed on July 22, 2016
  6. ↑ Ralf Georg Czapla, review: Ritsch, ratsch, click! Rolf Krauss' fuzzy look at the history of photography and literature In: Literaturkritik.de, April 1, 2001, accessed on July 22, 2016
  7. ↑ Andrea Jenewein, "I was like Alice in Wonderland" . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten, May 5, 2013, accessed on July 22, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Krauss, Rolf H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krauss, Rolf Herbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, entrepreneur, photographer, collector, author and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 2021
Place of death Stuttgart