Rupert Fuchs (photographer)

Rupert Fuchs (* 1892 in Neuhammer ; † 1962 in Überlingen ) was a landscape photographer of the western Ore Mountains .

Life

After attending school in Neuhammer, he received training as a photographer in Neudek , after which he was drafted into the military. After the First World War he worked briefly in Vienna and then returned to his remote home village on the ridge of the Ore Mountains. Here he had the courage to set up himself as a portrait and landscape photographer.

In 1920 he married Anna Fladerer, who helped him in the photo business. This marriage resulted in three daughters, Katharina Jacobs, Susanne Jungwirth and Elisabeth Fuchs-Hauffen. The latter self-published the memory book Daham im Erzgebirge in 1985 with photographs of her father from the years 1920–1935.

Rupert Fuchs had to leave Neuhammer with his family after 1945 and settled in Hauzenberg in Bavaria . At first he took photos in the Bavarian Forest , but due to his poor health he only devoted himself to writing a chronicle of Neuhammer, some of which appeared in print. He spent his old age in Überlingen on Lake Constance , where he is buried with his wife Anna in the upper cemetery.

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The hand-printed photo postcards with over 2000 landscape motifs by Rupert Fuchs were well known in the Bohemian Western Ore Mountains . Today they document the state of this area before the expulsion of the German population and the demolition of several villages in the border area.