Franz Fiedler (17 February 1885 – 5 February 1956) was a German photographer.

Biography

Fiedler was born in

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. Fiedler was a student of

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Career

He was regarded as an eccentric during his apprenticeship in

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, and worked in 1905 and again in 1912 with Rudof Dührkoop in

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, and from 1908 to 1911 with

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. At the 1911 world exhibition in Turin he won first prize and had another exhibition in

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in 1913. He belonged to the circle of

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and

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and in 1916 married

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in Dresden where he occupied a studio at Sedanstraße 7. In 1919, he started using a 9x12 camera and, by 1924, adopted the

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. In 1925, he exhibited at ''Film und Foto'' in Stuttgart. Fiedler adopted a face image as his emblem and claimed expertise in photographing picturesque women. His studio was bombed in 1945. He stored exhibition photos with family in Moravia. Post-1945, he authored photography books in

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. Anneliese Kretschmer was one of his students in Dortmund. Fiedler died on 5 February 1956 in Dresden.

Publications

* Dresden in Bildern', Aufnahmen von Franz Fiedler'', herausgegeben von

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, Wien, Leipzig, Verlag Dr. Hans Epstein, 1930 ('Orbis urbium – Schöne Städte in schönen Bildern'). * Dufek, Antonín, ''Franz Fiedler, Fotografie/Photographs/Fotografien'' (Brno, Prague, 2005) * ''Franz Fiedler. Fotografie''. Technische Sammlungen der Stadt Dresden, Ausstellung 4.4.-3.6.2007

References

External links

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