Uwe Scheid

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Uwe Scheid (* 1944 ; † 2000 ) was a German collector of erotic photographic works .

Picture from the Uwe Scheid collection (around 1855)

Life

Uwe Scheid was a businessman and lived in Überherrn-Berus . He was one of the world's most important collectors of erotic photo art. In his decades of collecting activity, he brought together thousands of daguerreotypes and photographs . His Uwe Scheid Collection developed into the best-known of its kind, as Scheid also made his collection accessible to the public in many books. The core of his collection were artistic erotic photographs from the period between 1840 and 1940.

Scheid's collection included pictures by well-known photographers such as Wilhelm Plüschow , Wilhelm von Gloeden , Herbert List , Paco, Edward Steichen , Heinz Hajek-Halke , Erwin Blumenfeld , László Moholy-Nagy , Edmund Kesting , Vaclav Jiru , Pierre Boucher , Lala Aufsberg , Florence Henri , Trude Fleischmann , Gertrude Fehr , Franz Roh , André Kertész , Karel E. Ludwig , Alexander Binder, Bertram Park , Yvonne Gregory , František Drtikol , Karel E. Ludwig, Brassaï , Raoul Hausmann , Willy Zielke , Man Ray , Germaine Krull , John Everard , Rudolf Koppitz , Horst P. Horst and Studio Keystone .

Scheid was a member of the German Photographic Academy , the European Society for the History of Photography , the Club Daguerre and the Daguerreian Society .

literature

  • The erotic daguerreotype. Kunstverlag Weingarten, Weingarten 1989, ISBN 3-8170-2504-1 , ISBN 3-8170-2503-3 .
  • The erotic imago. Volume I: The Nude in Early Photographs. Orbis, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-572-01062-4 . (Small Erotic Collection, Volume 2)
  • The erotic imago. Volume II: The nude photo from 1900 to today. Orbis, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-572-01063-3 . (Small Erotic Collection, Volume 3)
  • 1000 nudes. A history of erotic photography from 1839-1939. Taschen, Cologne et al. 2005, ISBN 3-8228-4768-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Scheid, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photo collector
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
DATE OF DEATH 2000