Hans Robertson
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Hans Robertson (8 May 1883 – 11 September 1950) was a German photographer and photojournalist of the Weimar Republic. He had a studio in Berlin focused on photography of dance, theatre, and portraits of its people including Harald Kreutzberg, Vera Skoronel and Mary Wigman, and of other public figures such as Käthe Kollwitz, Heinrich Mann, Gustav Stresemann and Max Schmeling.
Life and career
Robertson was born in Hamburg.[1] After his school years he first training as an engineer.[2]
Robertson became an assistant to the nature photographer Albert Steiner in St. Moritz, Switzerland.[3] From 1911 he worked in Hamburg in the A. Mocsigay studio, which published series of postcards. From 1915 to 1919, Robertson ran a photo business in St. Moritz[4] together with Albert Steiner, which Steiner had built up there from 1910.[3][4] Around 1927 Robertson took over the studio of Lili Baruch in Berlin at Kurfürstendamm, which specialised in theatre and dance photography, and ran it from 1928 to 1933.[5]
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As a dance and industrial photographer, as well as a photojournalist, Robertson became one of the city's most renowned portraitists, especially of writers, artists and politicians such as Käthe Kollwitz, Heinrich Mann and Gustav Stresemann. He became particularly famous for his photographs of modern dancers such as Harald Kreutzberg, Gret Palucca,Vera Skoronel and Mary Wigman,[5][6][7] as well as the boxer Max Schmeling.[8] His works were used in in books, magazines, theatre announcements, postcards, and for collectors' cards.[2]
Under the Nazi regime, Hans Robertson handed over his studio,[8] including the negative stock, to his former collaborator Siegfried Enkelmann (1905–1978) in June 1933, who continued to run the studio under his name until 1961.[7]
In 1933, Robertson married the Danish dancer Inger Kyser-Linden, née Levin (born 1903). As a Jew, Hans Robertson was expelled from the Berlin association of photojournalists. In 1934, Robertson emigrated with his wife via Switzerland to Denmark. They settle in Copenhagen where he opened a photography school, worked as a freelance portrait and theatre photographer and published articles in photography journals.[4]
In 1943, Robertson and his wife fled to Stockholm to escape the onset of anti-Semitism also in Denmark. They returned to Copenhagen after World War II, where he reopened his photography school in Vangede.[4]
Robertsson died there on 11 September 1950 at the age of 67.[1][6]
The National Museum of Photograph in Copenhagen holds the largest collection of negatives from Robertson's estate. A 2010 exhibition at the Black Diamond presented a selection of his most important photographs from the years "before Hitler", including newly discovered Berlin photographs.[8]
Exhibitions
- 1931: Exhibitions with Charlotte Rudolph , Essen and Mannheim
- 2008: Hans Robertson – Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin[4]
References
- ^ a b "Hans Robertson". Berlinische Galerie. 2 November 2008. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
- ^ a b "Hans Robertson / The Dancer Harald Kreutzberg, 1925" (in German). Städel. 2022. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
- ^ a b "Robertson". Fotostiftung (in German). Retrieved 2 February 2022.
- ^ a b c d e "Hans Robertson, Hans". foto.ch (in German). 23 April 2018. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
- ^ a b "Hans Robertson – Die Berliner Jahre. Fotografien 1926–1933". mdf-berlin.de (in German). 1 November 2008. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
- ^ a b "Legenden der Linse". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). 2 November 2008. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
- ^ a b Cacciola, Donatella. "Siegfried Enkelmann / 1905–1978, Ballett- und Tanzfotograf" (in German). Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
- ^ a b c "Eine Ausstellung zeigt nie gesehene Fotos des Berliners Hans Robertson – auch von Box-Legende Schmeling". Berliner Zeitung (in German). 11 November 2008. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
Further reading
- Photographische Rundschau und Mitteilungen, Zeitschrift für Freunde der Photographie, edited by Paul Hanneke (Berlin), Luther (Dresden) and F. Matthies-Masuren (Halle) et al. p. 49. Jahrgang, Photographische Verlagsgesellschaft, Halle p. 1912, fascicule 1
- Unsere Zeit in 77 Frauenbildnissen, Niels Kampmann Verlag, Heidelberg (c. 1930)
- Die schöne Tänzerin, die sich häßlich macht, report with three photographs by Robertson, Unionbild, in Neue IZ, fascicule 2 from 12 January 1933
- Frank-Manuel Peter: "Das tänzerische Lichtbild". Hugo Erfurth als Dokumentarist des frühen Ausdruckstanzes. In Bodo von Dewitz, Karin Schuller-Procopovici (ed.): Hugo Erfurth, 1874–1948. Photograph zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Wienand, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-87909-312-1, pp. 45–52, here p. 51.
- Honnef, Klaus & Weyers, Frank (ed.). Und sie haben Deutschland verlassen ...müssen. Fotografen und ihre Bilder 1928–1997. (171 photographers. 603 illustrations, foreword by Frank Günter Zehnder).
- Gunhild Oberzaucher-Schüller , Daniel Brandenburg, Monika Woitas: Prima la danza!: Festschrift für Sibylle Dahms, 2004, ISBN 3-8260-2771-X
External links
- Hans Robertson (in German) Deutschen Tanzarchiv Köln.
- Hans Robertson Artnet
- Mueller, Hein – Boxer, Germany*06.12.1903–29.04.1945+portrait, demonstrating his muscles – ca. 1929 – Photographer: Hans Robertson / Atelier Robertson in Der Querschnitt 1/1929 Vintage property of ullstein bild (Photo by Hans Robertson/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
Category:20th-century German photographers
Category:German photojournalists
Category:1883 births
Category:1950 deaths
Category:Artists from Hamburg