Theodor Karl Löber
Theodor Karl Löber (born March 17, 1909 in Darmstadt , † 1994 in Berlin ) was a German photographer . He worked as a city photographer in Berlin.
Life
Löber was born in Darmstadt. At the age of 19 he moved to Berlin and began working as a hotel servant on October 5, 1928 in the hotel "König von Portugal" in Burgstrasse, opposite the Berlin City Palace . This employment ended on January 31, 1933 because of "business restrictions".
The Second World War brought Löber a serious war wound and American imprisonment. After his release he immediately returned to Berlin, where he turned to photography. Short briefings at ADN and personally by the photographer Heinz Schaaf were his starting aids. This was followed by a lifelong professional photographic freelance work in the eastern part of Berlin , the then " capital of the GDR ". Löber's first photo laboratory was located at Görschstrasse 14, in Berlin-Pankow . This was soon followed by a move to Bergstrasse 6 and his main laboratory, Ackerstrasse 18, in Berlin-Mitte . Its most effective phase can be focused on the period from 1947 to 1977.
He photographed the destruction of Berlin by the Second World War, the demolition of the war damage and the reconstruction. In doing so, in the spirit of classic worker photography , he concentrated on the people, the rubble women and the normal workers, but also on their achievements, the emerging new city of Berlin.
He created a large number of Berlin cityscapes, temporal comparisons of the destruction of the war, clean-up work and the reconstruction of the inner city of Berlin, as well as city panoramas - overviews and overviews from raised viewpoints. These became his specialty and his trademark, which gave him the nickname "Panorama Löber". At that time panoramas were usually made without a panorama camera, by taking multiple photos from a wooden tripod, which were later joined together.
Löber had exhibitions in East Berlin galleries and in public spaces, for example on Alexanderplatz . His photographs have appeared in Berlin books, catalogs, magazines, newspapers and on postage stamps.
Theodor Karl Löber died in Berlin in 1994 at the age of 84. His photo archive is being viewed and prepared for exhibition and book projects.
For the first time after his death in 1994, photographs by Löber were presented to the general public in a photo exhibition from November 12, 2008 to January 17, 2009 in Berlin.
35 original photographs by Theodor Karl Löber from the years 1952–1961 are in the permanent collection of the Märkisches Museum , Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Löber, Theodor Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1994 |
| Place of death | Berlin |