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Ursula Wolff Schneider

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Ursula Flora Schneider (Wolff) (popularly known as Ursula Wolff Schneider) (August 14, 1906 – August 1977) was a German photographer and photojournalist. Her photographs of the pre-World War II period are a significant record of the society and culture of Weimar Germany, and they serve as an important example of early photojournalism.

Biography

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Ursula Wolff was born in Berlin, Germany, and is the daughter of renowned Sanskrit scholar Dr. Fritz Wolff and Minna Wolff.[1] She was married to German architect Karl Schneider (de).

In the mid-to-late 1920s, Ursula Wolff spent two years in Berlin, Vienna, and Hamburg working as an apprentice in photographers' studios and honing her talents. In 1928 – at the age of 22 – she established her own studio, Foto Wolff Lichtbildwerkstatt, and began working as a free-lance photographer.[2]

She left Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1937.[1] She spent her life in Chicago and was killed August 4, 1977 in an automobile accident.[3]

Career

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She lived in Chicago, where she worked as a medical photographer at the Michael Reese Hospital from 1937 to 1942.[4] Ursula Schneider was the Photographer of the Oriental Institute from 1942 until her retirement in 1973.[5]

Collections containing her work

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Collections With Images by Ursula Wolff Schneider:[6]

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Sources

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  1. ^ a b "WOLFF, FRITZ – Encyclopaedia Iranica". iranicaonline.org. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  2. ^ "Ursula Wolff Schneider Papers and Photographs, 1923–1983 | University of New Hampshire Library". www.library.unh.edu. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  3. ^ "Guide to the Ursula Wolff Schneider Papers and Photographs, 1923–1983". library.unh.edu.
  4. ^ Raynor, Vivien (November 1981). "IN MAHOPAC, FOCUS ON A PHOTOGRAPHER". The New York Times. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  5. ^ Jones, Charles (September 29, 2009). "The Oriental Institute: Fragments for a History of an Institution: Ursula Wolff Schneider, 1906–1977". The Oriental Institute. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  6. ^ "Ursula Wolff Schneider Papers and Photographs, 1923–1983 | University of New Hampshire Library". www.library.unh.edu. Retrieved April 2, 2018.