Hugo Erfurth

Hugo Erfurth ( born October 14, 1874 in Halle ( Saale), † February 14, 1948 in Gaienhofen ) was a German photographer.

Hugo Erfurth took over after his apprenticeship at the age of 22 years into his own studio in Dresden Johann city. Around the turn of the century he was engaged in a painterly, impressionistic style of photography in the sense of pictorialism.

Hugo Erfurth but was best known for his portrait photographs, where he implemented a very personal, psychologizing, the character of the sitter performing perspective in the 1920s. The necessary for such representation models found Erfurth especially among visual artists or writers. The collective memory often depicted portraits of artists such as Käthe Kollwitz, Otto Dix, Gerhart Hauptmann or Oskar Kokoschka are received.

Erfurth was also known as a theater photographer, but even more by his captured in the photographs of modern artistic dance movement, eg by Grete Wiesenthal and her sisters, Clotilde von Derp or Mary Wigman. Among his pupils were the Greek photographer Nelly and the German Charlotte Rudolph.

Hugo Erfurth one of the founders of the Society of German photographic artist, the oldest organization of photographers in Germany.

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From the city of Leverkusen and under the sponsorship of the local company, Agfa, which is known primarily for the production of photographic films, an international Hugo Erfurth prize was donated for photography.