Hannes Rosenberg

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Hannes Rosenberg was a German photojournalist, born July 13, 1916 [1] in Switzerland, active from the 1940s.

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The couple Hannes and Annelise Rosenberg produced reports for German and international newspapers [2] and illustrated magazines during the post-WW2 era, including general news and specialist photography publications, [3] [4] [5] [6] as well as book illustration, [7] and by the 1960s were undertaking general commercial and advertising work and interiors [8]

From the mid-1940s Rosenberg concentrated on imagery of everyday life in Germany, such as theatre and cabaret in the beer hall, [9] and was a photographer for Süddeutsche Zeitung [10] and others before he garnered international commissions, with his ‘Through the Iron Curtain’ being published in The New York Times on July 27, 1952, [11] followed in November 1954 by his illustrations for a story on the distribution of anti-communist propaganda over the West German border by balloon. [12] [13] [14] [15] He provided images for the Life magazine story on American journalist William N. Oatis after his release from jail 1953 for espionage by the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. [16]

In 1955 curator Edward Steichen selected photographs by both Hannes and Annalise [17] for the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Family of Man , [18] seen by 9 million visitors. [19] [20] Hannes Rosenberg's photograph of proud grandparents watching their toddling grandchild is distinctly European in its setting; [21] a broad, cobbled city square. Annelise contributed a picture of girls pinning Christmas decorations on their little sister's smock. [17]

Rosenberg favoured the Leica 35mm camera for his reportage. [22]

Portraits

Among Rosenberg's portrait subjects included German Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer; graphic designer and typographer Otl Aicher at the urban planning group at the Ulm Adult Education Centre in about November 1949; and writer Hans Werner Richter, Inge Aicher-Scholl, and architect Max Bill whom he photographed from underneath a glass tabletop at the Ulm School of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm, or HfG) in 1949/1950, for the weekend supplement of the Munich newspaper Neue Zeitung. [23] [24] As part of their journalistic work, the two photojournalists also wrote comprehensive reportages about the Ulm Adult Education Center and the Ulm College of Design, and their photographs are held in the archives and are part of the permanent exhibition of the HfG. As Hannes Rosenberg increasingly dealt with advertising, the strikingly modern institution served as a background for his publicity photos for AEG and other companies. Otl Aicher designed the furniture their apartment on Alfonsstraße in Munich, where artists and authors as well as members of Gruppe 47 frequently met, basing his designs for the study on the needs of the spouses by equipping the desk with a light table for viewing slides and a drawer for the 'Erika' typewriter, and a cupboard which stored their photo archive. [25]

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  2. ↑ 'I Llove You: a romance in llama lland', photographs by Hannes Rosenberg, The Charlotte Observer Sunday, 16 Aug 1953, p.95
  3. ↑ Morgan, Willard Detering, 1900-1967 (1949). The Encyclopedia of photography : a complete guide to amateur photography. National educational alliance. Retrieved 22 October 2019.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ Hannes Rosenberg "One Man ... and 8 Parrots". In Foto-Magazin issue 5, 1949, Heering Verlag
  5. ↑ "Out of the World of the Theater". In Foto-Magazin, Heering Verlag, Seebruck, issue 11/1949
  6. ↑ Zentner, Kurt & Lohse, Bernd (ed.) Europa-Camera, 1951, pp. 50 and 51
  7. ↑ Helene Ehman, Die neue Arche With adaptation of words by H. Ch. Andersen, Ausgewählte Märchen, 2 vols., 1947-49 (vol. 1, 5th ed. 1949)
  8. 1 2 "Interieur van een woonkamer: houten zithoek met met stof beklede kussens, burea…". Nationaal Archief (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-10-22.
  9. 1 2 "Hannes Rosenberg at Report digital independent picture library Archive of social history from 1945 onwards". Report digital. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  10. ↑ Germany, Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo, DIZ München GmbH, Munich. "Auslieferung der Süddeutschen Zeitung, 50er Jahre". Dokumentations- und Informationszentrum München GmbH (in German). Retrieved 2019-10-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ↑ Hannes Rosenberg ‘Through the Iron Curtain’ The New York Times July 27, 1952. Cited in Johnson, Jason B (2017), Divided village : the Cold War in the German borderlands, London New York Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, ISBN   978-0-415-79377-3
  12. ↑ "A man working on a balloon during a balloon operation in Germany". Getty Images. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
  13. ↑ "Free Europe Press Cold War Leaflets". www.psywarrior.com. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
  14. ↑ "Using Balloons to Breach the Iron Curtain". RFE/RL. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
  15. ↑ David J. Haight (2008) Propaganda, Information and Psychological Warfare: Cold War and Hot. A List of Holdings in the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
  16. ↑ William N. Oatis, "Why I Confessed," Life, September 21, 1953, p. 131; p. 141.
  17. 1 2 3 Steichen, Edward; Sandburg, Carl; Norman, Dorothy; Lionni, Leo; Mason, Jerry; Stoller, Ezra; Museum of Modern Art (New York) (1955). The family of man: The photographic exhibition. Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with the Maco Magazine Corporation.
  18. ↑ "Hannes Rosenberg | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
  19. ↑ Hurm, Gerd, 1958-, (editor.); Reitz, Anke, (editor.); Zamir, Shamoon, (editor.) (2018), The family of man revisited : photography in a global age, London I.B.Tauris, ISBN   978-1-78672-297-3 {{citation}}: |author1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  20. ↑ Sandeen, Eric J (1995), Picturing an exhibition : the family of man and 1950s America (1st ed.), University of New Mexico Press, ISBN   978-0-8263-1558-8
  21. ↑ "Hannes Rosenberg Vintage Silver Gelatin Photo Print Family of Man ca. 1955 Youth". eBay (in German). Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  22. ↑ "Leitzianer.de - Die Leica in Beruf und Wissenschaft". www.leitzianer.de. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
  23. ↑ The political history of the Ulm School of Design (1953-1968) An example of educational and cultural policy in the Federal Republic of Germany Inaugural dissertation to obtain the doctoral degree and the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne presented by Rene Michael Spitz from Rheinbach Euskirchen 1997
  24. ↑ Spitz, René; Hochschule für Gestaltung (Ulm, Germany) (2002), Hfg Ulm : the view behind the foreground : the political history of the Ulm School of Design 1953-1968, Edition Axel Menges, ISBN   978-3-932565-17-5
  25. ↑ "Schreibtisch, Arbeitstisch, drei Schränke, ein Regal 'Rosenberg', um 1955". Quittenbaum (in German). Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  26. ↑ "Artists". Museum Folkwang. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
  27. ↑ Rosenberg, Hannes and Annelise (1955). "Record in the State Archive: Circus Gebrüder Belli by Hannes and Annalise Rosenberg". Stadtarchiv München.
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