Aenne Biermann

Aenne Biermann ( born March 3, 1898 in Goch as Anna Sibylla star field; † January 14, 1933 in Gera ) was a German photographer of the New Objectivity.

Career

Anna Sibylla star field was the third child of a Jewish industrialist family. In 1920, she married Herbert Biermann, a son of the Jewish department store owner Max also Biermann († 1922) and moved in with him to Gera. The couple had two children.

As a self-taught artist, she came in the early 1920s to photography. First she photographed within the family; the Gera geologist Rudolf Hundt eventually asked to make sharp and detailed photos of the rocks collected by him. Within a few years they professionalized their work more and more, where they undertook the style of New Vision. Her work includes product shots as well as the subjects portrait, landscape and still life. In 1930 the first major exhibition of her work was held in Jena. Characteristic of her work are macro shots of people and objects. As Lucia Moholy, Florence Henri, Germaine Krull and Biermann was represented at international photo exhibitions in the early 1930s.

With 34 years Aenne Biermann died in January 1933 - a few days before the seizure of power by the National Socialists - from a liver disease. The National Socialist persecution and expropriation of their relatives they did not live. Her husband and the children were able to emigrate to Palestine. Your about 3000 negatives comprehensive archive was confiscated in Trieste, returned to Germany and is since that time largely considered lost.

Appreciation

The Gera Museum of Applied Arts, the Aenne Biermann devotes a separate room of its permanent exhibition, awards since 1992 every two years Aenne Biermann Prize for Contemporary German Photography. Now closed - - Regular school named after her in a Lusan district was. On 5 December 2009, the Gera Community College of the name " Aenne Biermann " was awarded. Since 2008, carrying a train of Gera tram her name.

Exhibitions of works Aenne Biermann found, among other things in 2002 at the Deutsches Museum in Munich and in 2003 and 2007 at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover.