Hermann Schieberth

Hermann Schieberth was an Austrian photographer born on the 12th of February 1876 at Vama, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary (now in Romania) and died in Shanghai, China in 1948.[1]

Karl Schenker in aviator outfit - 1919.
Oskar Kokoschka in Dragoon uniform
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He had moved to Vienna in 1909 after having spent a period working in Zwittau (Svitavy).

Career

He first attracted attention when he showed at the Kunstsalon Arnot in 1912.[2]

He ran his studio was on the Opernring in Vienna from 1910 to 1937.[3] In 1913, he opened a branch of his studio in Kaltenleutgeben, near Vienna. Trude Fleischmann worked as a photographer for Schieberth early in her career.

His works were primarily of other creatives (such as Oscar Kokoschka, Karl Kraus and Adolf Loos), politicians and aristocrats.

He also was know for his nudes which received wide circulation in portfolios, magazines and even as postcards. [3]

In 1924, a pictorial report entitled Die Schönheit Dresdens (The Beauty of Dresden) was published by the Allgemeinen Photographischen Zeitung.[2]

Exile

With the arrival of the Nazi administration in Austria after the Anschluss, Schieberth, who was Jewish, emigrated to Shanghai [2] where he is shown in the Shanghai telephone directory of 1947 as a professor, and located at 525 Hamilton House (one of the city's few skyscrapers at the time). In advertisements in the Shanghai Jewish Chronicle of the time he is shown as operating an art dealership at 267 Kiangse Road. He died in Shanghai in 1948.

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References
  1. Schieberth, Hermann (1924). Hermann Schieberth:Bildnisse und Akte. Jos. A. Detoni, Vienna.
  2. Übersee. Flucht und Emigration österreichischer Fotografen 1920 - 1940 - a catalogue. Kunsthalle, Vienna. 1997.
  3. Auer, Anna (2001). Fotografie im Gespräch. Dietmar Klinger Verlag, Passau. ISBN 3-932949-11-0.

Further reading
  • Hans Reuter (Hg.), Das Lichtbild – Meisterbilder der Photographie, Die Buchgemeinde, Berlin o. J. (1932) S. 99
  • Volker Wachs, Foto-Trophäen, Das Beste aus 50 Jahren Photoblätter (1924 bis 1978), hg. von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift Photoblätter der Agfa-AG, Mönchengladbach u.a., Umschau Verlag o.J. (1978)
  • Honnef, Klaus & Weyers, Frank (Hg.) Und sie haben Deutschland verlassen ...müssen. Fotografen und ihre Bilder 1928-1997
  • J. Ch. Liebenwein, in: Wr. Salonbl. 44, 1913, n. 48, S. 7ff.
  • Geschichte der Fotografie in Österr. 1–2, hrsg. von O. Hochreiter und T. Starl, 1983, s. Reg.
  • Die Vertreibung des Geistigen aus Österr., Wien (1985), S. 189 (Catalogue)
  • Archiv H. Frank, Bad Ischl OÖ
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