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Elfriede Klara Emma Reichelt(30 January 1883 – 22 August 1953) was a Germanfine-art photographer.

Life[edit]

Elfriede Klara Emma Reichelt was born in Breslau, the second of three daughters of the merchant Oswald Reichelt and Emma Reichelt, née Streit. Her father ran a porcelain shop in the main shopping street of Breslau.[1][2]

Reichelt was one of the first women to study[3]from 1906 to 1908 at theStaatliche Fachakademie für Fotodesign Münchenand was a student of the well-known German-American pictorialistFrank Eugene.

After her training, the photographer returned to her Silesian homeland to open a studio for artisticportrait photographyin Wroclaw. Until the beginning of the 1930s, the professional photographer took portraits of both the national celebrities of the time as well as well-known personalities from Wroclaw, who often came from the circles of the academy and local collectors and aristocrats.

Landscape, still-life and nude photographs were also part of her range of motifs.[3]

Reichelt was often allowed to portrayWilhelm IIand his family in exile in the Netherlands in the 1920s. A large number of her portrait photos are inventoried in theDeutsche Fotothek.[4]Among them, for example, one showing the ex-monarch with his little stepdaughter Henriette (1918-1972). It is entitled "Doorn. Kaiser Wilhelm II with Princess HenrietteSchoenaich-Carolath[de]in his arms ".[5]Another portrait photograph by Reichelt shows Henriette von Schönaich-Carolath with the family dog: "Princess Henriette von Schoenaich-Carolath with shepherd dog" Arno "".[6]This was shown, among others, in Reichelt's exhibition at theSilesian Museum of Fine Artsin 1925 and published at the time in the Illustrated Weekly Supplement of the SilesianZeitung.[7]

She participated in important photo exhibitions of the era and published her pictures in renowned journals. The photographer was a member of the GermanDeutscher Werkbundand the Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner (GDL).[8]

In 1927 she married theUlmindustrialist Hans Wieland and retired from active professional photography in the mid-1930s. After a few years in Ulm, Reichelt lived inGrünwaldnear Munich after separating from her husband in 1936.[9]

She lived there in a spacious house with a housekeeper and gardener. During the war years, when her estate also suffered bomb damage, she took in her great-niece Dörte Schreiber there from 1941 to 1943. In her last years, Reichelt was ill withbladder cancerof which she died aged 70.[10]

References[edit]

  1. ^Verena Faber:Elfriede Reichelt (1883-1953). Atelierfotografie zwischen Tradition und Moderne: Mit einem Verzeichnis der Werke.Dissertation, LMU Munich: Fakultät für Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften, 2011, p. 11
  2. ^Faber, Verena (2011-02-01).Elfriede Recihelt 1883 — 1953(PDF)(Doktorgrades der Philosophie thesis). Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
  3. ^abGasteig, Kultur für München:Das fotografische Werk von Elfriede Reichelt (1883–1953) – Schätze aus der Sammlung Fotografie des Münchner Stadtmuseums |url=http:// gasteig.de/veranstaltungen-und-tickets/veranstaltungen/das-fotografische-werk-von-elfriede-reichelt-1883-1953-schaetze.html,v11304}
  4. ^Deutsche Fotothek,Photos by Elfriede Reichelt(retrieved 18 September 2021)
  5. ^Elfriede Reichelt c. 1925: "Doorn. Kaiser Wilhelm II with Princess Henriette Schoenaich-Carolath in his arms". Münchner Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Fotografie, Signatur/Inventar-Nr.: FM-2005/384.358.o Treated in Verena Faber (2011): Elfriede Reichelt (1883-1953). Studio photography between tradition and modernity. Dissertation, LMU Munich. Vol. 2, catalogue raisonné, No. 472.
  6. ^Portrait photograph by Reichelt in the Deutsche Fotothek, c. 1925, title: "Princess Henriette von Schoenaich-Carolath with shepherd dog" Arno "", Münchner Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Fotografie, signature/inventory no.: FM-2005/384.99. Treated in Verena Faber 2011, catalogue raisonné, no. 436
  7. ^Illustrierte Wochenbeilage derSchlesische Zeitung,Nr. 49 (Sonnabend, 5 December 1925), p. 2: "Aus einer Ausstellung von Photographien von Elfriede Reichelt im Museum der Bildenden Künste in Breslau."
  8. ^Faber, Verena (1 February 2011)."lfriede Reichelt (1883-1953). Atelierfotografie zwischen Tradition und Moderne: Mit einem Verzeichnis der Werke. [Dissertation]"[lfriede Reichelt (1883-1953). Studio photography between tradition and modernity: With a catalogue of works. [Dissertation]].Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München(Electronic Thesis Record with link to Thesis) (in German).Archivedfrom the original on 7 July 2022.Retrieved12 February2023.
  9. ^Elfriede Reichelt – Breslauer Porträtfotografie zwischen 1910 und 1930 |url=http:// breslau-wroclaw.de/wb/pages/sammlungen/historische-fotos/elfriede-reichelt.php.Search Notice from Verena Bader, 16 February 2009
  10. ^Verena Faber:Elfriede Reichelt (1883-1953). Atelierfotografie zwischen Tradition und Moderne: Mit einem Verzeichnis der Werke.Dissertation, LMU Munich: Fakultät für Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften, 2011, p. 33

Further reading[edit]

  • Verena Faber:Elfriede Reichelt (1883-1953). Atelierfotografie zwischen Tradition und Moderne: Mit einem Verzeichnis der Werke.Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften, 2011 (Online atHochschulschrift LMU Munich)

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