Walter Dreizner

Walter Dreizner (born November 21, 1908 in Wittenberg ; † April 24, 1996 in Halle / Saale ) was a German photographer .

Live and act

Dreizner completed an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic and then worked for the Reichspost . He has been involved in photography since 1926, and in 1933 his panorama picture “Annual Market Halle” was published . Since his first trip to New York in 1934, he has held regular slide shows, including a. via New York, Paris , Hungary , Usedom and the Harz Mountains . From 1942 to 1944 he took photos as a soldier in Paris for a planned illustrated book. In 1943 “My Photo Album” was published . From 1944 to 1946 Dreizner was an American prisoner of war . After his return home, he painted the highly acclaimed picture “The Rubble Garden - Courage to Begin Again” . Since 1950 he was active as a supervisor for amateur photo groups throughout the GDR . His Paris pictures were exhibited in Halle / Saale in 1957 and in Budapest and Miskolc in 1960 . Dreizner undertook numerous trips abroad, which he documented photographically: in 1956 to Brussels and Paris, in the 1960s to Hungary and in 1961, 1981 and 1987 again to New York. In 1960 his book "Die Zweiäugige Spiegelreflex" was published , in 1961 his book "Diapraxis" , which was published several times. After 1990 Dreizner worked as a documentary photographer in Halle / Saale. He had personal exhibitions in Coswig , Wittenberg and Koethen .

Exhibitions

• Paris 1944 - The long wait , photographs by Walter Dreizner - Photo exhibition from June 12th to August 7th, 2005 in the Wolfen Industry and Film Museum (Saxony-Anhalt)

literature

• Goethe-Institut and Inter Nationes (editor): Walter Dreizner. Photography Paris . Without year (8 pages, French text)

Web links

Commons : Walter Dreizner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Walter Dreizner at photo-arts

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walter Dreizner photo exhibition Paris 1944 The long wait, in openpr (PDF; 394 kB)