Wilhelm Schröder (photographer)

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Wilhelm Schröder (* 1869 in Garwitz ; † 1947 ) was a German photographer .

Live and act

Wilhelm Schröder was born the son of a small farmer and lived in Grevesmühlen from 1906 , where he worked as a music teacher and musician.

Schröder was not a trained photographer, but a passionate and accomplished amateur photographer who used his photographic knowledge as an opportunity to earn additional income. From 1909 he moved across the country and showed his slide shows for a fee - embedded in lectures with musical accompaniment.

His pictures were forgotten for almost a hundred years. Between 2002 and 2014, several boxes with a total of 363 slides were discovered and acquired by the Mecklenburg Volkskundemuseum Schwerin-Mueß .

Despite the simplicity and tranquility of the motifs, Schröder's pictures show an authentic picture of life in Mecklenburg around 1900.

The projector he used is also still original.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Janke, The presented photo in: Photos - "beautiful and useful at the same time": The object photography, by Irene Ziehe (editor), Ulrich Hägele (editor), p. 48–50 Lit-Verlag May 2006. With 2 slide recordings from Wilhelm Schröder. Read online: https://de.book-info.com/isbn/3-8258-8663-8.htm
  2. ↑ Leaflet for the exhibition From Barbizon to the Sea , Carl Malchin and the Discovery of Mecklenburg, State Museum Schwerin, undated
  3. ^ Carl Malchin exhibition in Schwerin. This is what Mecklenburg looked like 100 years ago. Retrieved November 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Garwitz
DATE OF DEATH 1947