Annelise Kretschmer

Portraits from the 1920s to 1960s
The photographic work of Annelise Kretschmer spans a period of five decades, concentrating above all else on the genre of portraiture. As a master disciple of Franz Fiedler in Dresden, she worked mainly on the publication Magazine up to the beginning of the 1930s. In 1929 she opened a private photographic studio in Dortmund, and documented in the following decades culturally prominent people and the citizens of her hometown. Under the influence of "New Objectivity" she experimented with cropping and form, wherein the personality of the subject was always central. These "psychological portraits" are found also in the sphere of her more personal photographs. Over several years she made portraits of her children, beginning with a small camera able to capture action.