{"id":39668,"date":"2016-10-19T12:18:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T10:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=39668"},"modified":"2016-10-19T12:18:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T10:18:05","slug":"twentieth-century-german-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/twentieth-century-german-photographers\/","title":{"rendered":"5 German Photographers Who Defined the 20th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Children “Children and Children’s Playgrounds, Eight boys Practicing a Handstand” by Heinrich Zille. Image from images.zeno.org<\/p>\n

 
\nGermany\u2019s modern period is underscored by the Third Reich and the Second World War. From the propaganda to the widespread trauma, the country\u2019s photographers were documenting and producing astonishing images of life during the war and the promise of a more peaceful postwar society. Many of these images live in the Berlinische Galerie\u2019s vaults and are now on show as part of the Europ\u00e4ischer Monat der Fotografie<\/a>. We take a look at five seminal German photographers who defined the country\u2019s tumultuous journey through the 20th\u00a0century.
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\"K\u00e4the K\u00e4the Kruse by Steffi Brandl. Images from digiporta.net<\/p>\n

Steffi Brandl<\/h3>\n

Portrait photographer Steffi Brandl shot Weimar stars of the Twenties and Thirties. Brandl was one of many women photographers who fled Europe to escape the Nazis and their terrorising mission. Researcher Elke Tesch has spent the past few years piecing together Brandl\u2019s career, a project which continues to surface new images, leading him to\u00a0discover exciting new source material from various magazines and archives.
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\"Penicillin-Kristalle Penicillin-Kristalle by Fritz Brill. Image from sammlungonline.de and 1904-1987: Photograph Color-in-Walzstuh by Fritz Brill. Image from picclick.de<\/p>\n

Fritz Brill<\/h3>\n

Fritz Brill was tutored by Bauhaus teacher Johannes Itten and began his career as a commercial artist. Together with his wife Hedwig Bornemann, he founded a studio for advertising design in Berlin, despite rudimentary equipment and very little funds. In 1950, Brill deepened his research to create\u00a0“Photo Analysis”, a project which consisted of micro, macro, high-speed photography and cinematography. His methodological approach also encompassed more scientific inquiries that were elaborate experiments in which to \u201cachieve the impossible\u201d.
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\"Experimental Experimental Photography by Heinz Hajek-Halke. Images from monovisions.com<\/p>\n

Heinz Hajek-Halke<\/h3>\n

Hajek-Halke is renowned for his sensational colour photomontages. An autodidact who worked throughout 1920s Berlin, his unconventional nude studies demonstrate the scale of his pioneering practice. Working under the shadow of National Socialism, the anarchic Hajek-Halke left Berlin for Lake Constance where he continued to study\u00a0industrial and aerial photography. Though many of his photographs remain unpublished, Hajek-Halke was a leading figure of the post war Subjective Photography movement.
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\"Marlene Marlene Dietrich by Erich Salomon. Image from berlinischegalerie.de<\/p>\n

Erich Salomon<\/h3>\n

The Berliner Zeitung helped launch Eric Salomon\u2019s career in 1928, when the newspaper published his images documenting\u00a0a famous murder trial. Salomon spent much of the 1930s in the United States, photographing Marlene Dietrich and other luminaries for his book \u201cBer\u00fchmte Zeitgenossen in Unbewachten Augenblicken (Famous Contemporaries in Unguarded Moments)\u201d. Salomon was the original “candid camera” photographer, famed for his ability to infiltrate VIP events and spontaneously capture members of high society.
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\"Heinrich Heinrich Zille “Alt Berlin”, circa 1900. Image from commons.wikimedia.org<\/p>\n

Heinrich Zille<\/h3>\n

It was the writer Kurt Tucholsky who said that nineteenth-century street photographer Heinrich Zille “embodies the purest incarnation of Berlin”. Although Zille captured folk festivals and the studios of artists Max Liebermann, August Gaul and K\u00e4the Kollwitz, he was mostly interested in documenting the working class and those from marginalized groups. His photographs are now housed in collections around the world including the Heinrich Zille Museum in Berlin.
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\n\u201cPhotography in Berlin 1900-1980<\/a>” is on display at Berlin’s Berlinische Galerie until 31 October 2016<\/strong> \n 
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