Liselotte Strelow (11 September 1908 – 30 September 1981) was a German photographer.

Life

Born in Redel, Pommerania, the farmer's daughter went to Berlin in 1930, where she took photography courses at the

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school. In 1932, she learned in the studio of the Jewish photographer Suse Byk, after which she was employed by

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(Germany). In 1938, she took over Suse Byk's studio on

Kurfürstendamm The Kurfürstendamm (; colloquially , ; ) is one of the most famous avenues in Berlin. The street takes its name from the former (prince-electors) of Brandenburg. The broad, long boulevard can be considered the of Berlin and is lined with s ...

The studio as well as most of her photo archive were destroyed in a bombing raid in winter 1944. After fleeing from Pomerania in 1945, she first went to

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, and in 1950 she opened a studio on Königsallee in

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants, seventh-largest city ...

. She specialised in portrait and theatre photography. Her pictures in collaboration with

Gustaf Gründgens Gustaf Gründgens (; 22 December 1899 – 7 October 1963), born Gustav Heinrich Arnold Gründgens, was one of Germany's most famous and influential actors of the 20th century, and artistic director of theatres in Berlin, Düsseldorf, and Hambur ...

and

Elisabeth Flickenschildt Elisabeth Ida Marie Flickenschildt (16 March 1905 – 26 October 1977) was a German actress, producer and author. She appeared in dozens of German language films and television productions between 1935 and 1976. Flickenschildt was born in Hambu ...

soon made her famous. After the

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chose her portrait of

Theodor Heuss Theodor Heuss (; 31 January 1884 – 12 December 1963) was a German liberal politician who served as the first president of West Germany from 1949 to 1959. His civil demeanour and his cordial nature – something of a contrast to German nati ...

as the basis for a series of stamps of the Bundespräsident in 1959, she was able to choose her clients. Her portraits of

Konrad Adenauer Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967) was a German statesman and politician who served as the first Chancellor of Germany, chancellor of West Germany from 1949 to 1963. From 1946 to 1966, he was the first leader of th ...

Rudolf Augstein Rudolf Karl Augstein (5 November 1923 – 7 November 2002) was a German journalist, editor, publicist, and politician. He was one of the most influential German journalists, founder and part-owner of magazine. As a politician, he was a member o ...

Maria Callas Maria Callas (born Maria Anna Cecilia Sophia Kalogeropoulos; December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was an American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Many critics praised ...

Uwe Johnson Uwe Johnson (; 20 July 1934 – 22 February 1984) was a German writer, editor, and scholar. Such prominent writers and scholars as Günter Grass and Hans Mayer declared Johnson to be the most significant writer to emerge from East Germany. Duri ...

and

Thomas Mann Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novell ...

as well as

Ingeborg Bachmann Ingeborg Bachmann (; 25 June 1926 – 17 October 1973) was an Austrian poet and author. She is regarded as one of the major voices of German-language literature in the 20th century. In 1963, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature b ...

Gottfried Benn Gottfried Benn (2 May 1886 – 7 July 1956) was a German poet, essayist, and physician. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1951. Biography and work Family and beginnings G ...

Joseph Beuys Joseph Heinrich Beuys ( ; ; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and Aesthetics, art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism and sociology. With Heinrich Böll, , Caroline Tisdall, Rober ...

, Lea Steinwasser,

Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau ( , ; ; 5 July 1889 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost avant-garde artists of the 20th-c ...

Marlene Dietrich Marie Magdalene "Marlene" DietrichBorn as Maria Magdalena, not Marie Magdalene, according to Dietrich's biography by her daughter, Maria Riva ; however, Dietrich's biography by Charlotte Chandler cites "Marie Magdalene" as her birth name . (, ; ...

and

Hildegard Knef Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef (; 28 December 19251 February 2002) was a German actress, singer, and writer. She was billed in some English-language films as Hildegard Neff or Hildegarde Neff. Early years Hildegard Knef was born in Ulm in 19 ...

. Strelow was a member of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner (GDL) and the

German Society for Photography The German Society for Photography (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie, DGPh) is a German photography organisation, based in Cologne. It is concerned with the application of photography in art, science, education, journalism, economics and pol ...

(DGPh). A part of her photographic estate - mainly portrait photographs - is in the

Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn The Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, or LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn, is a museum in Bonn, Germany, run by the Rhineland Landscape Association. It is one of the oldest museums in the country. In 2003 it completed an extensive renovation. The museum has a ...

in Bonn, the much larger part of his theatre photography estate is in the , sooner the "Dumont-Lindemann Archiv". The photographer died in

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at the age of 73.

Prizes

* 1969:

David Octavius Hill David Octavius Hill (20 May 1802 – 17 May 1870) was a Scottish painter, photographer and arts activist. He formed Hill & Adamson studio with the engineer and photographer Robert Adamson between 1843 and 1847 to pioneer many aspects of p ...

-Medaille, vergeben durch die Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner e.V. (GDL); seit 1988 vergeben durch :die Fotografische Akademie GDL, gemeinsam mit der Stadt Leinfelden-Echterdingen als David Octavius Hill Medaille / Kunstpreis der Stadt Leinfelden-Echterdingen * 1976: Kulturpreis of the

(together with Rosemarie Clausen and

Regina Relang Regina Relang (1906–1989) was a German fashion photographer and photojournalist active in the 1950s and 1960s. She documented the latest designs of prominent fashion houses. Biography Relang (born Regina Lang) was born in Stuttgart in 1906, da ...

)

Exhibitions

* 2008/2009: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn. * 2009: Historisches Museum Frankfurt * 2010: Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin * 2010: Kunsthalle Erfurt *2019: Liselotte Stresow BILDERGESCHICHTEN, Johanna Breede PHOTOKUNST

References

External links

* *
www.photo-archiv.info (with the famous Theodor Heuss photo)

Ausführliche biografische Informationen und Arbeiten, Frauen-Kultur-Archiv der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
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Life

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