Urs Lang-Kurz

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Urs Lang-Kurz (actually Ursula Lang-Kurz ; born April 27, 1909 in Stuttgart , † 1998 ibid.) Was a German fashion photographer .

Urs Lang-Kurz was the daughter of the artist Paul Lang-Kurz , professor at the Stuttgart Art Academy , and his wife Minna Kurz (1877 – before 1928), an artisan and student of Maximilian Dasio . Her sisters were the photographer Regina Relang and the jewelry designer Anni Schaad .

She received her photography training from 1929 in the Binder studio in Berlin . From 1932 she worked in Harry Ossip Meerson's studio for fashion photography in Paris . Her older sister, Regina, was with her in Paris, where she taught herself to take photographs at Urs' suggestion and in the following years and decades became one of the most successful fashion photographers in Germany, and Urs Lang-Kurz should always be in the shadow of her.

In 1935 Urs Lang-Kurz returned to Stuttgart and opened his own studio. In 1938 she passed the master craftsman examination. In the following years she worked mainly for the clothing company Bleyle , Daimler-Benz and the German Master School for Fashion in Munich . In 1941 the photographer Ingeborg Hoppe became her collaborator. In 1944 her studio was confiscated by the National Socialists. After the war, she reopened a studio and worked as a fashion, portrait and advertising photographer. In 1956 she withdrew from photography and from then on devoted herself to painting.

Urs Lang-Kurz married the manufacturer Karl Mescher in 1937. A son of this marriage is John Mescher (* 1947), architect and by 2012 Senior Planning Officer in Sindelfingen .

literature

  • Urs Lang-Kurz, Sabine Mescher-Leitner: Urs Lang-Kurz. Photographs 1932-1958. Catalog for the exhibition in the Kabinett, December 3 to 18, 1999. Stuttgart 1999.
  • Ulrich Pohlmann, Simone Förster (ed.): The elegance of the dictatorship. Fashion photographs in German magazines 1936–1943. Catalog of the exhibition of the same name in the Münchner Stadtmuseum November 9, 2001 to January 20, 2002. Wolf & Sohn, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-934609-03-1 , p. 68.
  • Petra Rösgen (Red.): Woman lens. Photographers 1940 to 1950. Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name in the House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany , Bonn, May 18 to July 29, 2001. Wienand, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-87909-752-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Urs Lang-Kurz , picture index of art and architecture
  2. ↑ Cars with the star artistically arranged , article on the exhibition "A picture of a car"
  3. ↑ House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany (ed.): Women objective. Photographers 1940 to 1950 , Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-87909-752-6 and ISBN 3-87909-754-2 , p. 133
  4. ↑ Career from photo model to mayor ( memento of the original from June 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Leonberger Kreiszeitung, August 20, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / m.stuttgarter-zeitung.de
personal data
SURNAME Long-short, Urs
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lang-Kurz, Ursula (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fashion photographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH 1998
Place of death Stuttgart