Susanne Homann
Susanne Homann (born June 3, 1866 in Kiel , † March 6, 1923 in Darmstadt ) was a German professional photographer and publisher who became known for her portraits and architecture. Above all, her photographs of historical buildings all over Germany, published as postcards , are in some cases important visual documents for building research and architectural history .
life and work
Homann lived in Darmstadt from 1899 and initially worked as a midwife . At the same time, she worked as a professional photographer from 1904 at the latest. How she got this second job is unclear. According to contemporary address book entries, she gave up her work as a midwife around 1913 and ran her photo studio under the name of a workshop for modern photography .
Her skills and reputation earned her her first official commission from the grand ducal house in 1908 at the latest, when she photographed the visit of the Grand Duchess Eleonore to an infant home in Darmstadt. For the year 1909 a recording of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig and his two sons with an informal character has survived. Both photos were printed and sold as postcards.
She handled the direct sales of the postcards produced from her photographs herself, while the Leipziger Kommissionsverlag F. Volckmar took over the sales through bookshops by 1911 at the latest . In 1910 and 1911 she gave z. For example, two series of postcards based on photographs of tombs in Dresden's Elias cemetery are documented by the art-historical and urban-historical objects in the cemetery, which was closed in 1876 and has not been publicly accessible since the 1920s because of its dilapidation.
The fact that at the beginning of February 1922 she photographed the laying out and the funeral of the late Darmstadt architecture professor Friedrich Pützer also seems to speak for her appreciation by architects .
Because of the documentary value of her photographs, which was already recognized during her lifetime, her professional legacy was taken over by the People's State of Hesse in 1923/1924 , the series of postcards still contained therein were distributed by the Hessische Bildstelle - including the series "Maulbronn", "Franconian half-timbered buildings", " Upper Hessian farmhouses "," Westerwald "," Barmen "," Elberfeld "," Coburg "," Trier "," Dinkelsbühl "," Nördlingen "," Cologne "," Donauwörth "," Regensburg "," Dresden "," Augsburg " "," Potsdam "," Marburg "," Bacharach "," Oberwesel "u. a.
Web links
- Friends of Eliasfriedhof Dresden e. V. (Ed.): Two series of postcards from the beginning of the 20th century. On: eliasfriedhof.de , accessed on May 15, 2019 (with biographical information and 23 images based on Homann postcards)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , inventory R 4, No. 32095 ( in the online catalog at arcinsys.hessen.de )
- ^ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt, inventory D 27 A, No. 74/22 ( in the online catalog at arcinsys.hessen.de )
- ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 45, 1911, No. 69 (of August 30, 1911), p. 592. (Note on the purchase options in the literature section )
- ↑ City Archives Darmstadt, inventory 45/82 (Friedrich Pützer), no. 24 ( in the online catalog on arcinsys.hessen.de )
- ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 58, 1924, No. 39 (from May 14, 1924), p. 216. (Note on the takeover of the estate; however without explicit mention of a negative archive)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Homann, Susanne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 1923 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |