Werner Friedli (photographer)

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Werner Friedli (born on August 16, 1910 in Dübendorf ; died on September 6, 1996 ) was a Swiss photographer .

life and work

Friedli completed an apprenticeship as a photographer with Heinrich Wild in Dübendorf from 1925 to 1928, and a master class at the Higher Graphic Federal Teaching and Research Institute in Vienna in 1934 . Then he worked as a freelance photographer. After the early death of Walter Mittelholzer in 1937, Werner Friedli took over the management of Swissair Photo AG in 1938 and brought it through the economically difficult war years. After an aircraft accident in the Engadine , he resigned as manager in 1960. He then founded his own company for aerial photography and continued taking photos until 1973.

Around 21,000 black and white aerial photographs taken at an angle in 13 × 18 cm are now in the ETH Library's image archive . The original negatives, some with the corresponding gelatin silver prints, come from Friedli's time at Swissair Photo AG. The inventory with the image code suffix LBS_H1 is fully digitized.

Publications

  • Aerial view of Switzerland. 200 photos by Swissair . Mühlrad, Zurich 1949.
  • Alpine flight image . Reinhold A. Müller, Feldmeilen 1968.
  • Alpine flight. History, geography, experience . Kümmerly + Frey, Bern 1969.
  • Core today. For the 150th anniversary of Kern & Co. AG Aarau, Switzerland, precision mechanics and optics plants . Kern, Aarau 1969.

Exhibitions

  • 1951: Werner Friedli: Aerial image of Switzerland , Helmhaus
  • 1974: Group exhibition: Photography in Switzerland from 1840 to today , traveling exhibition, Swiss Foundation for Photography, Zurich
  • 2004: Group exhibition: Blickfänger. Photographs in Basel from two centuries , Basel Historical Museum

gallery

  • Wettingen ( AG ), Wettingen power station, 1939

  • Russin ( GE ), Barrage de Verbois, river power station on the Rhone, view to the northwest (NW), 1945

  • Zurich ( ZH ), Heuried, 1945

  • Melser Au near Sargans ( SG ), wind protection planting , Rhine plain, 1947

  • Riom ( GR ), Riom-Parsonz, 1947

  • Geneva ( GE ) = Genève, Débarcadère, Square du Mont Blanc, 1949

  • Alpstein, view to the northeast (NE), Hundstein, 1949

  • Monte Rosa , Gorner Glacier, 1949

  • Augst ( BL ), Augusta Raurica , excavations, Roman theater, 1950

  • Büsserach ( SO ), Neu-Thierstein ruins, 1953

Web links

Commons : Werner Friedli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fotoCH. Retrieved November 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Friedli, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Dubendorf
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1996