Barbara Pflaum
Barbara Pflaum (10 January 1912 as Hansi Barbara Gebhardt – 24 March 2002) was an Austrian photographer and photojournalist.
She was married to the entrepreneur , her older sister to the Nobel Prize winner Konrad Lorenz.
Career[]
Born in Vienna, Gebhardt attended fashion classes at the University of Applied Arts Vienna from 1931 to 1934. After her divorce, she continued her studies in the graphic arts class from 1948 to 1952 and in the early 1950s began to work increasingly in photography, initially as a commercial artist.[1][2] Der Nachlass von Barbara Pflaum liegt in der österreichischen Bildagentur IMAGNO brandstätter images. Nachlassverwalter ist Mag. Gerald Piffl.[3]
From 1955 until her retirement in 1977, Pflaum worked as a press photographer for the weekly newspaper Wochenpresse, where she supplied pictures for the sections "Domestic", "Reportage", "Culture", "Fashion" and "Chronicle". Pflaum is the author of several illustrated books, most of them with reference to Vienna.[4]
Pflaum died in Vienna at the age of 90.
Work[]
- With Jörg Mauthe: Wie ist Wien? E. Hunna, Vienna 1961.
- Die Wienerin, Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 1965
- With Ludwig Plakolb: Wien an der Wien. Jugend und Volk, Vienna/Munich 1971.
Further reading[]
- Wolfgang Kos (ed.): Photo: Barbara Pflaum. Bildchronistin der Zweiten Republik.[5] Brandstätter, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-902510-83-9.
References[]
- ^ Barbara Pflaum in Austria-Forum (in German) (at AEIOU)
- ^ Wien Museum: Barbara Pflaum, Chronistin einer Ära Rathauskorrespondenz vom 15. November 2006 (retrieved 23 December 2020)
- ^ Barbara Pflaum on artnet
- ^ Barbara Pflaum on Getty Images
- ^ Photo: Barbara Pflaum : Bildchronistin der Zweiten Republik on WorldCat
External links[]
- Literature by and about Barbara Pflaum in the German National Library catalogue
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