Hamburg Harbour, ca. 1930, vintage print, silver bromide, verso with photographer's stamp, 16,5 x 22,5 cm, The oldest German press Beautiful Motorships Hambourg to United Américan lines.
Hans Breuer (born December 25, 1869 in Sønderborg, Denmark, † September 15, 1961 in Hamburg) was a German photographer. He is considered one of the pioneers of press photography. [1]
life Change
Hans Breuer was the son of an innkeeper. After the 1893-1896 apprenticeship with Danish photographer Ludwig Stöckler in Sønderborg, he became independent in 1897 in Hamburg. Instead of focusing on setting up a photo studio, as it was customary at the time, he started working for the burgeoning "illustrated newspaper" market. His photographs of the burning oil mill in Harburg and Prince Bismarck's trip to Friedrichsruh in 1897 established his profession as a photojournalist.
His areas of expertise include urban landscapes and celebrity photos, such as von Bismarck and William II. Breuer had the confidence of the emperor and photographed his bed on the imperial yacht Meteor, after Wilhelm II supposedly told him. "Breuer, if you photographed my room again then you zieh'n before the tight cover. "[2] Breuer himself called a certain time aboard and the photographer of the company. [3] Orders from the "Hamburg-America Line" Hapag often drove him abroad. For the Paris 1900 Universal ExhibitionHe bought a 13 × 18 pocket camera and took the unusually high number of 600 photos. Most of the time, he photographed with cameras in 18 × 24 or 24 × 30 cm format.
After the Second World War, Hans Breuer documented destruction and reconstruction in the Federal Republic. In 1959 he received the Great State Medal of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Much of Breuer's photographs are in the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg.