Walde Huth

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Walde (Waldberta) Huth (born January 29, 1923 in Stuttgart ; † November 11, 2011 in Cologne ) was a German photographer .

Life

Before 1945

Walde Huth grew up in Esslingen am Neckar . As a child, Huth was not enthusiastic about the NSDAP rallies . She was not active in the party and completed her studies during the Nazi era without coming into conflict with the regime. From 1940 to 1943 Huth studied photography with Walter Hege at the State School for Applied Arts in Weimar. For her thesis she photographed autumn leaves. From 1943 to 1945 she worked in the development department for color photography at Agfa Wolfen , which was subject to confidentiality. There she filtered the first German full-length color film Münchhausen . Walter Hege and Huth photographed fresco paintings by Moritz von Schwind in the Wartburg as part of the “ Monumental Painting Guide ” . In addition, Huth received special orders from the Aviation Ministry or the Reich Chancellery and developed a. a. two films with recordings from Hitler's private environment.

From 1945

Schmölz family grave in Cologne's north cemetery

After the Second World War, Huth photographed the residents of Esslingen on behalf of the Allies. She then went into business for herself with portrait, theater and art photography. After she opened the “Artistic Photography Workshop” in Esslingen in 1946, a large studio for fashion and advertising photography followed in Stuttgart in 1953, where she employed eight people. With her husband, the architectural photographer Karl Hugo Schmölz , she founded the advertising and public relations studio “schmölz + huth” in Cologne in 1958 (until 1986). The artist was a member of the German Society for Photography and the Association of Visual Artists .

Walde Huth was killed on November 11, 2011 in a fire in her basement apartment in Cologne-Marienburg . She was buried in her husband's family grave in Cologne's northern cemetery (hall 10, grave no. 119a / b).

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Ambre - Zeitmode (1962)
Photographic collection, Museum Ludwig

In the summer of 1945 she photographed the residents of her homeland in series on behalf of the Allies (so-called ID card campaign).

Her photos for the leading German fashion magazines caused a sensation and secured her a place in the history of fashion photography: They were mostly taken outdoors - a novelty at the time - and stand in exciting contrast to the architecture of the surroundings. The artist soon took photos for “Haute Couture” in Paris and Florence.

Since the 1970s she has also dealt with free, abstract subjects. In this context, various photo series have been created since 1979, including “Hundred Unwritten Letters”, “100 Recorded Steps” and “100 Unreal Realities”.

Participation in exhibitions

  • Christian Dior and Germany 1947 to 1957. June 30 to September 30, 2007 in the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne
  • Walde Huth: Strictly. Sensitive. Playful. Photographs 1941–1965. September 6 to November 2, 2012 in the Hilaneh von Kories gallery in Hamburg
  • The birth of photography. Milestones of the Gernsheim Collection. September 9, 2012 to January 6, 2013 in the International Photography Forum of the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums in Mannheim

estate

In 2007, Walde Huth sold her entire work and the work of the photographer community schmölz + huth to the Cologne collector Horst Gläser. In this context the article with Peter Lau in brandeins and further interviews in WDR and DF as well as the participation in the exhibitions "DIOR" in Cologne were created. After the death of Walde Huth, Horst Gläser was able to win the gallery owner Hilaneh von Kories for an exhibition in Hamburg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b obituary notice Walde Huth (Waldberta Huth-Schmölz) . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . No. 275 . Cologne November 26, 2011, p. 19 .
  2. ↑ a b Simone Hamm: Walde Huth - the poet with the camera , Deutschlandfunk , May 16, 2014
  3. ↑ Walde Huth died. In: kunstmarkt.com of November 16, 2011, accessed on November 27, 2011.
  4. ^ Photographs in the German Historical Museum , Berlin
  5. ↑ Press text and press review for the exhibition at www.galeriehilanehvonkories.de , accessed on July 24, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Huth, forest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huth, Waldberta; Walde Huth-Schmölz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2011
Place of death Cologne