Ursula Wolff Schneider

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

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

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

Collections With Images by Ursula Wolff Schneider:[6]

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Sources
  1. "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. "IN MAHOPAC, FOCUS ON A PHOTOGRAPHER". 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.
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