Franz Grainer
Franz Grainer (born 28 September 1871 in Bad Reichenhall, died 1948 in Munich) was a Bavarian photographer.
Franz Grainer
Franz Grainer · Public domain
- Born
- 1871 · Bad Reichenhall.
- Died
- 1948 · Munich.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Bavaria · Germany
- Occupation
- photographer
- Languages
- German
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Franz Grainer (born 28 September 1871 in Bad Reichenhall, died 1948 in Munich) was a Bavarian photographer.
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Grainer created numerous portraits of the children of the last crown prince of Bavaria, Rupprecht, especially the firstborn Luitpold and the son Albrecht, 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
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• Illustration — Lili Marberg as Salome, c. 1905 • Illustration — Christian Schad, 1912 • Illustration — Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria c. 1915 • Illustration — Carl Sternheim, c. 1921 • Illustration — Ferdinand Sauerbruch, 1927
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1871
Franz Grainer was born on 28 September 1871.
1948
Franz Grainer died on 17 February 1948.
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Bad Reichenhall.
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