Hanni Schwarz

Hanni Schwarz was a German nude and portrait photographer, who worked in Berlin from around 1901. She is considered a well-known professional photographer in the German Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Life

Schwarz's life dates are unknown.[1] Before turning to photography, she was a teacher at her father's school in Basel.[2] Around 1904, she took over the photo studio of Johannes Hülsen in Berlin together with Anna Walter. Around 1909, she ran her photo studio together with Marie Luise Schmidt.[3] For 27 May 1919, it is registered as Atelier Hanni Schwarz in the Dorotheenstraße and specialised in portrait and dance photography.[1]

From its foundation in 1903, the magazine Die Schönheit [de] published photographs of her.[4] The Ross-Verlag [de] in Berlin, which was a leader in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s for postcards of famous film actors as well as with film scenes, published numerous portraits taken by her. A portrait Hanni Schwarz had made of the artist Fidus appeared in a book edited by Adalbert Luntowski [de] in 1910.[5] In the magazine Sport im Bild No. 5, 5 March 1926 a photograph of her was printed with the caption: Frau Chicky Sparkuhl-Fichelscher, our popular fashion illustrator, in her self-designed carnival costume of green silk and silver sequins. Ball des Deutschen Theaters.[6]

In April 1908, a so-called beauty evening took place in the "Mozartsaal" of the Neues Schauspielhaus, at which nude photographs by Hanni Schwarz and Wilhelm von Gloeden were presented, projected onto a screen. By this time, Schwarz had already made a name for herself as fine-art photography.[7] In 1910 she participated in the Brussels International 1910 with nude photographs.[8] Colour photographs of her were shown at the "Bugra" in 1914.[9]

It is said that a portrait photo of her contemporary Theodor Heuss with his wife, which was planned in 1912, failed because Schwarz forgot to change the photographic plate and a double exposure with Dr. Milch occurred.[10]

The most recent photographs attributable to her date from 1930, after which she no longer appears.[11] In 2000, works by Hanni Schwarz were included in the exhibition Le siècle du corps. Photographies 1900-2000 at the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne.[12]

Publications

  • Hanni Schwarz: Photographie als Frauenberuf. In Photographische Mitteilungen, 42. Jg. (1905), issue 11, pp. 163–165; issue 12, pp. 182–184. (Online im Internet Archive)
  • Hanni Schwarz: Der Werdegang der Photographin. In Photographische Chronik, No. 46, 14. June 1911.

References

  1. ^ a b Schwarz, Hanni. Deutsche Fotothek
  2. ^ L. Bürckner: Die künstlerische Photographie. In Arena, volume 24, 1908, edition 1, p. 146. Online: Die künstlerische Photographie.
  3. ^ Berliner Tageblatt, 24 September 1909, No. 485, 4th supplement.
  4. ^ Reprinted in Daniel Wiegand: Gebannte Bewegung. Tableaux vivants and early film in modernist culture. Schüren, Marburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7410-0058-4, pp. 222–223.
  5. ^ Edi Goetsche: Fidus-Serie, Monsalvat Verlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-9523855-0-0, p. 115
  6. ^ Sport in picture: Chicky Sparkuhl-Fichelscher, ANNO, Historische österreichische Zeitungen und Zeitschriften, No. 5, 5 March 1926, p. 205
  7. ^ Christina Templin: Eine Skandalgeschichte des Nackten und Sexuellen im Deutschen Kaiserreich 1890-1914. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3543-0, pp. 133–134
  8. ^ The Photographer's Studio, 17th ed, 1910, Verlag Wilh. Knapp, p. 76
  9. ^ Die Frau im Buchgewerbe und in der Graphik. Verlag des Deutschen Buchgewerbevereins, Leipzig 1914, p. 235. (Online at the Internet Archive). retrieved 23 January 2021.
  10. ^ Theodor Heuss, Aufbruch im Kaiserreich
  11. ^ Portraits of Hanni Schwarz at European Film Star Postcards
  12. ^ Schwarz, Hanni. FotoCH
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