Hanni Schwarz Explained

Hanni Schwarz was a German nude and portrait photographer, who worked in Berlin from around 1901. She is considered a well-known professional photographer in the German Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Life

Schwarz's life dates are unknown. Before turning to photography, she was a teacher at her father's school in Basel.[1] Around 1904, she took over the photo studio of Johannes Hülsen in Berlin together with Anna Walter. Around 1909, she ran her photo studio together with Marie Luise Schmidt.[2] For 27 May 1919, it is registered as Atelier Hanni Schwarz in the Dorotheenstraße and specialised in portrait and dance photography.[3]

From its foundation in 1903, the magazine published photographs of her.[4] The in Berlin, which was a leader in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s for postcards of famous film actors as well as with film scenes, published numerous portraits taken by her. A portrait Hanni Schwarz had made of the artist Fidus appeared in a book edited by in 1910.[5] In the magazine Sport im Bild No. 5, 5 March 1926 a photograph of her was printed with the caption: Frau Chicky Sparkuhl-Fichelscher, our popular fashion illustrator, in her self-designed carnival costume of green silk and silver sequins. Ball des Deutschen Theaters.[6]

In April 1908, a so-called beauty evening took place in the "Mozartsaal" of the Neues Schauspielhaus, at which nude photographs by Hanni Schwarz and Wilhelm von Gloeden were presented, projected onto a screen. By this time, Schwarz had already made a name for herself as fine-art photography.[7] In 1910 she participated in the Brussels International 1910 with nude photographs.[8] Colour photographs of her were shown at the "Bugra" in 1914.[9]

It is said that a portrait photo of her contemporary Theodor Heuss with his wife, which was planned in 1912, failed because Schwarz forgot to change the photographic plate and a double exposure with Dr. Milch occurred.[10]

The most recent photographs attributable to her date from 1930, after which she no longer appears.[11] In 2000, works by Hanni Schwarz were included in the exhibition Le siècle du corps. Photographies 1900-2000 at the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne.[12]

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Notes and References

  1. L. Bürckner: Die künstlerische Photographie. In Arena, volume 24, 1908, edition 1, . Online: Die künstlerische Photographie.
  2. http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers/issue/Berliner%20Tageblatt/1909/9/24 Berliner Tageblatt, 24 September 1909
  3. http://www.deutschefotothek.de/documents/kue/70121894 Schwarz, Hanni. Deutsche Fotothek
  4. Reprinted in Daniel Wiegand: Gebannte Bewegung. Tableaux vivants and early film in modernist culture. Schüren, Marburg 2017,, .
  5. Edi Goetsche: Fidus-Serie, Monsalvat Verlag, Zurich 2011,,
  6. Sport in picture: Chicky Sparkuhl-Fichelscher, ANNO, Historische österreichische Zeitungen und Zeitschriften, No. 5, 5 March 1926,
  7. Christina Templin: Eine Skandalgeschichte des Nackten und Sexuellen im Deutschen Kaiserreich 1890-1914. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2016,,
  8. The Photographer's Studio, 17th ed, 1910, Verlag Wilh. Knapp,
  9. Die Frau im Buchgewerbe und in der Graphik. Verlag des Deutschen Buchgewerbevereins, Leipzig 1914, . (Online at the Internet Archive). retrieved 23 January 2021.
  10. https://books.google.com/books?id=0K4R4zq1ICkC&dq=Hanni+Schwarz&pg=PA347 Theodor Heuss, Aufbruch im Kaiserreich
  11. Portraits of Hanni Schwarz at European Film Star Postcards
  12. https://www.foto-ch.ch/?a=fotograph&id=28239&lang=de Schwarz, Hanni. FotoCH