Erna Lendvai-Dircksen
Erna Lendvai - Dircksen (* May 30, 1883 in Weather Weilburg, Hesse, † 8 May 1962 in Coburg ) was a German photographer.
Life
In the years 1903-1905 she studied painting at the Kassel Art Academy, it was followed from 1910 to 1911, a photographic study in the establishment of the Lette -Verein. From 1906 to 1911 she was married to Adolf Göschel and from 1913 to 1924 with the Hungarian composer Erwin Lendvai.
Since 1913, it operated a photographic workshop in Hellerau near Dresden. 1916 to 1943 she led a portrait studio in Berlin. It originated among other portraits of Ricarda Huch, Käthe Kollwitz and Mary Wigman.
Already in 1917 she decided to photographic representation of the " German people face ." In this time also landscape photographs.
It was appointed in 1924 to the German company Lichtbildner. In 1925, she traveled to the East and South and put 1926 in the German Photographic Exhibition in Frankfurt am Main.
Her book The German people face appeared in 1932 during the Third Reich, published in the series The German people face 5 volumes in large numbers in Gauverlag, Bayreuth. Schleswig -Holstein (1939, 1942), Lower Saxony (1942 ), Tyrol and Vorarlberg (1941, 1943 ), Mecklenburg and Pomerania (1940, 1942) and Hesse-Cassel ( 1943). The published by the same publisher series The Germanic people face comprises two volumes: Flanders (1942, 1943, 1944) and Norway (1942, 1944). After the destruction of their archive in 1943 she moved to Upper Silesia and 1946 to Coburg, where she took up old issues again. The band was put Norway in the Soviet zone of occupation on the list of proscribed literature.
The David Octavius Hill Medal of the " German Society Lichtbildner " was conferred in 1958. After that, they remained long forgotten and only in the 1970s pushed her work and more interest.