Franz Fiedler

Franz Fiedler ( born March 17, 1885 in Proßnitz, Moravia, † February 5, 1956 in Dresden) was a photographer of the New Objectivity.

Life

Franz Fiedler was a pupil of Hugo Erfurth, was during the photography course in Pilsen from 1901-1904 as an eccentric, was in Hamburg in 1905 with Rudolf Dührkoop ( repeated 1912) and from 1908 to 1911 with Hugo Erfurth in Dresden studio employees.

At the World Expo 1911 in Turin, he won a first prize, presented in 1913 from Prague and was there at the circle of Jaroslav Hasek and Egon Erwin Kisch. He married in 1916 in Dresden Erna Hauswald and moved into his studio in the Sedanstraße 7 Since 1919, simultaneously with his friendship with Madame d' Ora, Dora Kallmus from Vienna that should go a little later to Paris, he began working with the 9x12 folding camera and since 1924 was one of the first professional photographers with the Leica. After the studio expansion in 1925, he took in 1929 at the exhibition movie and photo in Stuttgart.

A significant turning point put the publication on the city of Dresden in the spirit of the New Objectivity, one of the first topographical picture books, which have emerged from the principles of the new photography, dar.

Fiedler's studio was destroyed on 13 February 1945 only a box with exhibition shots that he had set for his family from the ravages of war in Moravia, has been preserved. After 1945, he did not have his own studio more and lived as a writer of photo manuals in the GDR. Among his pupils were the Greek photographer Nelly and German Annelise Kretschmer.