• Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler Light and Shadow – Photographs 1920 – 1950 (English Edition)
  • Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler Light and Shadow – Photographs 1920 – 1950 (English Edition)
  • Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler Light and Shadow – Photographs 1920 – 1950 (English Edition)
  • Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler Light and Shadow – Photographs 1920 – 1950 (English Edition)
  • Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler Light and Shadow – Photographs 1920 – 1950 (English Edition)
  • Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler Light and Shadow – Photographs 1920 – 1950 (English Edition)
  • Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler Light and Shadow – Photographs 1920 – 1950 (English Edition)

Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler Light and Shadow – Photographs 1920 – 1950 (English Edition)

This first comprehensive publication on Dr. Paul Wolff (1887–1951) and Alfred Tritschler (1905–1970) marks the rediscovery of two of the most famous German photographers of the period circa 1930.

To this day, Wolff & Tritschler are familiar names as pioneers of the Leica, as forerunners of a lively style in illustrative photography and reportage. Besides that, their work, estimated to stand at 700,000 shots, reflects several chapters of German history at a stroke: from the cultural awakening during the years of the Weimar Republic, through the Third Reich, and on to the Second World War, in the end phase of which significant portions of the Wolff archive were also destroyed. In terms of formal aesthetics, the two photographers demonstrated a range between convention and New Objectivity, between homeland style and New Vision. There was virtually no topic that Wolff & Tritschler failed to cover. Their photographic work shapes our notion of the old or  »New Frankfurt« just as much as it stirs our longing for faraway places, as evoked by their shots from journeys by car or ship or flights on the Zeppelin. In sum, no small number of contradictions characterize the work of Wolff & Tritschler over three decades. However, precisely that makes their oeuvre, which oscillates between service provision and artistic aspiration, between avant-garde and adaptation, a rich seam for a broad-based historical and critical examination.

 »By chance I won a Leica as a prize at the Photographic Exhibition in Frankfurt am Main, and since that time my whole inclination pertains to the grand life, the world’s unlimited expanse, all that the compact camera is called to capture.«

Dr. Paul Wolff

 

Half-cloth hardcover 24 x 29 cm 464 pages 967 color ills. English Available ISBN 978-3-86828-881-0 2019

Artist:

Alfred Tritschler, Paul Wolff

Editor:

Hans-Michael Koetzle

Texts:

Sabine Hock, Randy Kaufman, Hans-Michael Koetzle, Kristina Lemke, Günter Osterloh, Tobias Picard, Gerald Piffl, Shun Uchibayashi, Thomas Wiegand

Design:

Alessandro Argentato, Hamburg

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Awards

Aperture Paris Photo PhotoBook Awards 2019
Jurors’ Special Mention–Books About Books

Exhibitions

Paul Wolff L´expérience photographique, l’image éditée
Mulhouse/Alsace
14.09. – 30.11.2024

Paul Wolff (1887–1951): L'homme au Leica
Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier
17.01. – 14.04.2024

PAUL WOLFF - Pionier der Leica
Vintage Fotografien der 30er Jahre
Galerie argus fotokunst, Berlin
02.11. – 21.12.2019

Ernst Leitz Museum, Wetzlar, Germany
28.06.2019 – 07.06.2020
Further venues to be announced

Sculpture through the lens of the camera. Alfred Tritschler’s photos of the Schnütgen collection
Museum Schnütgen, Cologne
09.11.2019 – 16.02.2020

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