Erich Andres (b. 1905 Leipzig, d. 1992 Hamburg) was an autodidact German war photographer and photojournalist.

Biography

From 1921 to 1923, Andres was apprenticed to a typesetter in Dresden during which time he started to take photographs of landscapes, people, traditional costumes and folk customs with a home-made camera. In 1923 and unemployed he moved to Hamburg where he found work typesetting in a printery while freelancing as a photographer; his first sale was in 1927 of a cover image for Hamburger Anzeiger, then the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung published his pictures of his travels in 1927/28 through southern Europe. In 1928/29 he also hiked through Yugoslavia, Greece and Italy.

In the Great Depression he again found himself without regular employment. His pictures of Hamburg's unemployed, of the workers' council meeting in Hamburg's trade union building, and workers' self-help were published in the Hamburger Echo and in Volk und Zeit, and in photo series entitled “Crisis” from November 1930 he pictured his own unemployment card.[1]

Andres' conducted his first major photo reportage during the years 1931–2 in the multi-ethnic state of Albania, then coming increasingly under the influence of Mussolini.[2] Andres' pictures show Albania at the time of King Ahmet Zogu, they expose its poverty and backwardness when on the surface the country had still a picturesque, nostalgic oriental flavour.[3] Andres planned to publish the pictures as a book entitled People of Albania with publisher Reimar Hobbing, but the project was not realised, though as a result from 1932 he started working full-time as a photojournalist.[1]

National Socialist era

Berlin Olympics

Andres continued work as a photographer during the Nazi era and his officially-accredited documentation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics won him several awards. Eighty-five years later, the Olympic Committee itself referred to his imagery as blending "art, sport, aesthetics and technical mastery to capture immortal moments of winter sports action."[4]

Spanish Civil War

In 1937, with permission of the Ministry of Propaganda, he documented the Spanish Civil War for the fascist insurgent side at the beginning of the conflict. He made two and a half thousand images during a journey that started in Paris, continued through different Spanish cities and towns, those of the peninsula and the Protectorate of Morocco, and ended in Lisbon.[5] His photographic archive was acquired by the General Archive of the Civil War of Salamanca. Though he recorded republican prisoners-of-war at forced labour in the Toledo palace, his wide-ranging representations;[6] landscapes, urban and rural, groups of combatants, troop movements, portraits, monuments, destruction of war and, especially, everyday scenes of the hardships of the general population during the civil war did not meet the Panglossian requirements of the Ministry.

Entartete Kunst

For the cover of a 1937 illustrated supplement to the Hamburger Anzeiger,[7] Andres depicts two Bückeburg peasant women in traditional dress at the Nazi's Degenerate Art exhibition standing before Ludwig Kirchner's Expressionist sculpture of a naked couple. The caption reads "Bückeburg women before degenerate art. Kirchner's 'Couple', which one farmer's wife rejects with astonishment and the other with a smile, was bought in 1930 by a German art gallery for 3,000 marks."[7] Andres' juxtaposition may have been deliberately ironic, given the newspaper's "spirit of resistance" in its treatment of propaganda.[8]

Allied aerial bombardments

Andres was drafted into military service 1939 to 1945, undertaken in the naval propaganda corps. On home leave in June 1943, he married Hildegard Hänisch in Dresden where he photographed, against strict government prohibition, the destruction causing over 50,000 civilian deaths that resulted from the Allied aerial bombardment of Hamburg. The results were combined with writer Hans Erich Nossack's contemporaneous diary entries as the 1993 book Der Untergang.[9]

Post-war

Andres worked as freelancer after the war, living at Langenfelder Straße 60, Hamburg, and at first documented devastated Munich, its black market and the city's reconstruction and often used a ladder for an unusual perspective. Later he worked for Der Spiegel and the Hamburg daily newspapers. In April 1958 he photographed the Bewegung Kampf dem Atomtod protests against atomic weapons and later recorded the inauguration of the Hohe Weide Synagogue and the North Sea floods of 1962. From 1962 onwards he illustrated annual reports and calendars.

Recognition

One of Andres' photographs, of girls in traditional costumes dancing a 'Ring o' Roses',[10] was selected by Edward Steichen for the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Family of Man, that was seen by 9 million visitors, and for its catalogue.[11]

His photography of the destruction of Hamburg[12][13] by Allied aerial bombardment provides a rare German perspective and has since been published in book form and exhibited.[14][15][16] He was often consulted as an expert by museums seeking images of the history of Hamburg. In 1993 a re-edition of Hans-Erich Nossack's Der Untergang illustrated with Andres' photographs was sponsored by the Hamburger Abendblatt for the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the firestorm.[17][18]

Andres was interviewed by Heinrich Breloer and Horst Königstein for their award-winning 1982 television film The Axe of Wandsbek.

He died in Hamburg on 6 February 1992.

Legacy

The Dresden City Museum holds his archive. Pictures with a reference to Hamburg are held in the Hamburg Office for the Protection of Monuments and additional copies in the picture archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin.[19] Since February 2019, the Cologne-based United Archives GmbH obtained exclusive rights to imagery not related to Hamburg and Dresden.[20]

Publications

  • Nossack, Hans Erich, Andres, Erich (1993). Der Untergang Hamburg 1943 (in German). ISBN 978-3-8225-0236-5. OCLC 165500202.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Andres, Erich, Orendt, Stefan (1992). Albanien [1931, 1957, 1990 ; ein Fotolesebuch (in German). ISBN 978-3-86163-031-9. OCLC 246656795.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Andres, Erich, Zimmermann, Jan, Junius-Verlag (2018). Tod über Hamburg Fotos und Notizen aus dem "Feuersturm", 25. Juli bis 1. August 1943 (in German). ISBN 978-3-88506-835-8. OCLC 1083825121.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Andres, Erich, Zimmermann, Jan, Beutler, Willi, Lüden, Walter, O'Swald-Ruperti, Ruperti, Scheerer, Theo, Schmidt-Luchs, Hugo, Schorer, Joseph, Junius-Verlag (2017). Hamburg - Krieg und Nachkrieg Fotografien 1939-1949 (in German). ISBN 978-3-88506-802-0. OCLC 990201787.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Andres, Erich; Wisser, Horst (1998). Kindheit in Hamburg: in den 50er Jahren (in German). Gudensberg-Gleichen: Wartberg. ISBN 978-3-86134-479-7. OCLC 48119507.
  • Andres, Erich, Gemeinnützige Wohnungs- und Siedlungsbaugenossenschaft "Süderelbe" (1972). 25 Jahre "Suüderelbe" 16. Sept. 1947-1972 (in German). Hamburg: Hammonia-Verl. OCLC 248709423.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Zimmermann, Jan, Andres, Erich, Beutler, Willi, Lüden, Walter, Oswald-Ruperti, Ruperti, Scheerer, Theo, Schmidt-Luchs, Hugo, Schorer, Joseph, Junius-Verlag (2017). Hamburg Krieg und Nachkrieg (in German). ISBN 978-3-88506-802-0. OCLC 1073858921.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Publications about

References

  1. 1 2 Andres, Erich, Müller, Ulli (1994). Erich Andres, der Mann mit der Leiter 50 Jahre unterwegs mit dem Hamburger Fotoreporter (1920-1970) (in German). Hamburg: Dölling und Galitz. ISBN 978-3-926174-52-9. OCLC 845480996.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ↑ Andres, Erich, Orendt, Stefan (1992). Albanien [1931, 1957, 1990 ; ein Fotolesebuch (in German). ISBN 978-3-86163-031-9. OCLC 246656795.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ Hoppe, Hans-Joachim (October 1993). "Review : Reviewed Work(s): Albanien. Ein Fotolesebuch by Erich Andres, Karol Kállay, Wolfgang Krolow, Peter K. Wehrli, Dritero Agolli, Ismail Kadaré, Stefan Orendt and Giuseppe de Siati". Osteuropa. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag. 43 (10): 1000.
  4. ↑ "The Olympic Museum Traces The Epic Story Of The Olympic Winter Games With New Exhibition". States News Service. 10 December 2021.
  5. ↑ González, Cándido Ruiz (2008). Casquero Fernández, José-Andrés: La Guerra Civil en Zamora: imágenes de la vida cotidiana en una ciudad de la retaguardia (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED: UNED Zamora, Centro de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia de Zamora. OCLC 806734704.
  6. ↑ Piñel, Carlos; Garrido, José Luis Hernando; Vincent, Luis; Furket, Alberto Pérez; Trueba, Emilio Ruiz; Carbajal, Eva Belén Carro; Domínguez, Ruth; Estébanez, Josefa; et al. (Sanz, Teresa Bravo, Valdeolivas, Aarón Fernández) (2003). Sueños de Plata : El Tiempo y Los Ritos : Fotografía y antropología en Castilla y León. Museo Etnográfico Castilla y León.
  7. 1 2 "Erich Andres | Hamburger Anzeiger, Illustrierte Beilage, 25. September 1937, Titelblatt | Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg". sammlungonline.mkg-hamburg.de. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  8. ↑ Sieker, Hugo; Lichtwark-Stiftung (1973). Kulturarbeit im Widerstandsgeist 1933-1945 (in German). Hamburg: Christians. OCLC 313291313.
  9. ↑ Nossack, Hans Erich; Lüth, Erich; Andreas, Erich (1993). Der Untergang: Hamburg 1943 (in German). Hamburg: Kabel. ISBN 978-3-8225-0236-5. OCLC 493014129.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  10. ↑ Borja-Villel, Manuel J; Díaz, Tamara; Velazquez, Teresa; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2014). Playgrounds, reinventar la plaza: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 30 de abril de 2014-22 de septiembre de 2014 (in Spanish). Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Siruela. ISBN 978-84-8026-490-7. OCLC 890272315.
  11. ↑ Steichen, Edward; Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973, (organizer.); Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967, (writer of foreword.); Norman, Dorothy, 1905-1997, (writer of added text.); Lionni, Leo; Stoller, Ezra; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1955). Mason, Jerry (ed.). The family of man : the photographic exhibition. Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with the Maco Magazine Corporation.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ↑ Andres, Erich, Zimmermann, Jan, Junius-Verlag (2018). Tod über Hamburg Fotos und Notizen aus dem "Feuersturm", 25. Juli bis 1. August 1943 (in German). ISBN 978-3-88506-835-8. OCLC 1083825121.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. ↑ Bursey, Jeff (2005-03-01). Bombs Fell from Unimaginable Height.(The End: Hamburg 1943)(Book Review). In Books In Canada. 34 (2), 17(2).
  14. ↑ Nossack, Hans Erich & Agee, Joel (2004). The end : Hamburg 1943. University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  15. ↑ Anderson, Benedict (2019). Buried City, Unearthing Teufelsberg: Berlin and its geography of forgetting. Place of publication not identified: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-367-19585-4. OCLC 1069729763.
  16. ↑ Karel, Thomas A. (1 January 2005). "Review: Nossack, Hans Erich (text) & Erich Andres (photogs.). The End: Hamburg 1943". Library Journal. 130.
  17. ↑ Preußer, Heinz-Peter (2016). Der Bombenkrieg als dokumentarisches (Sub-)Genre, als Schockerlebnis und als transmediale Inszenierung in Fotografie und Spielfilm, in Geschichtsschreibung und Roman (in German). ISBN 9783658094256. OCLC 5882187920.
  18. ↑ Schmitz, Helmut. "Catastrophic History, Trauma and Mourning in W.G. Sebald and Jörg Friedrich." German Monitor, no. 72, 2010, pp. 27-50,269
  19. ↑ "fotoerbe.de - Bestand: Fotografien Erich Andres (Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Berlin)". www.fotoerbe.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  20. ↑ "OMNIA - United Archives / Erich Andres". www.omnia.ie. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
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