Rudolph Stickelmann

Rudolph Stickelmann (born June 21, 1870 in Bremen ; † October 31, 1956 there ) was a German photographer .

biography

Born in Bremen Neustadt, Stickelmann learned the profession of engraver , which he also practiced until around 1900. Then he worked as a freelance photographer, trading as the Photographic Art Institute in 1904 and soon ran one of the most respected and versatile photography studios in Bremen. His focus was on photography, but his landscape photos from Worpswede and the Teufelsmoor show artistic ambitions, which are also expressed in his friendship with Heinrich Vogeler and Bernhard Hoetger . In terms of business, he was dependent on his work as an advertising and documentation photographer, which led to the numerous industrial, architectural and ship shots in his oeuvre . In contrast, reports, portraits and events were not part of the preferred field of work. The clients were North German Lloyd , Karstadt and numerous other Bremen companies. His understanding of aesthetics earned him orders from the Bremen museums and the Commission for the Preservation of Architectural Monuments . In 1914 he showed pictures at the Cologne Werkbund exhibition .

From about 1910 he tried out the new possibilities of color photography, in the 1920s he took lessons from Nicola Perscheid , with whom he remained on friendly terms.

Of his six children, Herrmann Stickelmann (1901–1973) entered the studio as an apprentice in 1916, which he took over after his father's death. The grandson Jochen Stickelmann continued the business from 1973 until it went bankrupt in 1975.

The photographic estate of the photographer family (including 17,000 negatives) was taken over by the picture archive in the Bremen State Archive in 1976 .

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• Boris Löffler: Views of Bremen by Rudolph Stickelmann . Information sheet on the exhibition in the State Archives Bremen 2012.

Web links

• “Views of Bremen by Rudolph Stickelmann and Susanne Frerichs”, photo exhibition in the Bremen State Archives 2011/2012