Franz Grainer (born 28 September 1871 in
Bad Reichenhall, died 1948 in
Munich) was a Bavarian photographer.
Career
Grainer created numerous portraits of the children of the last crown prince of Bavaria,
Rupprecht, especially the firstborn Luitpold and the son
Albrecht
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First name
*Albrecht Agthe, (1790–1873), German music teacher
*Albrecht Altdorfer, (c. 1480–1538) German Renaissance painter
*Albrecht Becker, (1906� ...
, who was the only one to reach adulthood. In 1919, he was one of the founding members of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner (GDL), the predecessor of the German Academy of Photographs, whose chairmanship he later took over and still held in the power takeover of the National Socialists.
In addition to portrait photographs, more and more nude studies emerged in the 1920s. Works by Grainer are held at the
Museum Folkwang in Essen and the Fotomuseum in the
Munich Stadtmuseum
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.
Works
*''From the wild. Thierstudien from the high Alps in snapshots by Franz Grainer bayer. Hofphotograph'', Berlin 1898
*''The modern female portrait, in: Das Deutsche Lichtbild. Year 1927'', Berlin 1927
Portrait gallery
File:Lili Marberg.jpg, Lili Marberg as ''Salome
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'', c. 1905
File:Christian Schad, 1912, by Franz Grainer.JPG, Christian Schad, 1912
File:Erbprinz Albrecht von Bayern, von Franz Grainer.jpg, Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria
Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria (Albrecht Luitpold Ferdinand Michael; 3 May 1905 – 8 July 1996) was the son of the last crown prince of Bavaria, Rupprecht, and his first wife, Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria. He was the only child from that ...
c. 1915
File:Carl Sternheim by Franz Grainer, c. 1921.jpg, Carl Sternheim
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, c. 1921
File:Ferdinand Sauerbruch 1927, by Franz Grainer.png, Ferdinand Sauerbruch, 1927
References
*Sandra Limbacher: ''Photography as a means of social representation. The Munich portrait photographer Franz Grainer (1871-1949)''. Master thesis, Munich o. J. (between 1985 and 2005).
*Wilhelm Schöppe (Hrsg.): ''Master of the Camera. How they became and how they work. Hugo Erfurth , Franz Fiedler , Franz Grainer, Kurt Hilescher , Erna Lendvai-Dircksen , Prof. Walter Hefe, Albert Renger-Patzsch , Dr. Paul Wolff , Adolf Lazi , Dr. Martin Hürlimann , Willy Zielke , Ms A. von Blücher. With 48 picture reproductions''. Wilhelm Knapp, Halle-Saale, oj. (1935?).
*''Two masters have left us (Hugo Erfurth - Franz Grainer)''. In: ''photo mirror''. Issue 7/8, April/May 1948.
External links
National Portrait Gallery Franz GrainerGetty images
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Photographers from Bavaria
1871 births
1948 deaths
People from Bad Reichenhall