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词条 Hella Katz
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  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Death and legacy

  4. References

     Citations  Bibliography 

  5. External links

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| caption = Katz in the early 1930s, unknown photographer
| birth_name = Helene Katz
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|09|20|df=y}}
| birth_place = Lemberg, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1981|01|20|1899|09|20|df=y}}
| death_place = Darlington, County Durham, England
| nationality = Austrian/British
| other_names = Helene Katz-Lowis, Helen Lowis
| occupation = photographer
| years_active = 1920–1939
| known_for =
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Hella Katz (20 September 1899 – 20 January 1981) was the professional name of the Jewish photographer Helene Katz. Arriving in Vienna at the beginning of World War I, Katz became an influential photographer in the city in the interwar period. She has photographs in the collections of the Vienna Museum.

Early life

Helene Katz was born on 20 September 1899 in Lemberg, in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, which at the time was administered under the terms of the Third Partition of Poland by Austria-Hungary. In 1914 during World War I, she fled from the Russian advance with her German-speaking, Jewish family from eastern Galicia, in what is now Ukraine, to Vienna. In 1915, she enrolled in the {{ill|Higher Federal Graphical Institute of Education and Research|lt=National Higher Institute of Graphic Teaching and Research|de|Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt}}, from which she graduated in 1920.{{sfn|Holzer|2009|p=20}}

Career

Katz practiced her craft of photography for two years before applying for her trade license in August 1922. Within three years, she opened her own studio at #18 Stubenring Boulevard.{{sfn|Holzer|2009|p=20}} It was a favorable time for women to engage in business, as workers were scarce and many businesses were understaffed. Women who wanted to enter the workforce found openings in the arts including dance, film, photography, and radio studios, as well as in the theater.{{sfn|Holzer|2009|pp=20–21}} Katz built her reputation as a portrait photographer, taking pictures of society figures as well as artists and performers.{{sfn|Holzer|2011|p=11}}

Her repertoire expanded to include nude photographs and modern dance and by the 1930s, Katz was one of the most well-known photographers in Vienna.{{sfn|Holzer|2011|p=11}} She participated in several art exhibitions and attracted students. Among those who studied with her were {{ill|Elly Niebuhr|de}}, Hans Popper (later known as John H. Popper), and Anton Josef Trčka.{{sfn|Holzer|2009|p=21}} When the Nazis came to power in early 1938, initially Katz was allowed to continue teaching.{{sfn|The Northern Echo|2012}} Until Kristallnacht, she continued teaching and was allowed to produce photographs for emigrating Jews. Because she had approval to engage in business, she was not placed under surveillance and was able to liquidate her business and vacate the premises under the terms of her lease by 30 April 1939.{{sfn|Wick|2011|p=135}}

After having given her notice, Katz terminated her registration as an Austrian Jew on 20 March 1939{{sfn|Wick|2011|p=135}} and made plans with the assistance of William L. Shirer to leave the country.{{sfn|Lewin|2012}} In April, she registered in London with the Jewish Refugee Committee.{{sfn|Wick|2011|p=135}} In May, she asked the committee for help in locating a shipping company to arrange the shipping of her luggage to the United States,{{sfn|Wick|2011|p=136}} but did not ultimately leave England, having found lodging in Oxshott, Surrey.{{sfn|Wick|2011|p=135}}{{sfn|The Northern Echo|2012}} Back in Vienna, under the Aryanization Laws, Franz Jungwirth, a Nazi bureaucrat, was assigned to liquidate Katz's business. His report, made in July 1939, indicated that the only remaining property at her studio were a few cameras and accessories, and minimal furnishings of no value.{{sfn|Wick|2011|p=135}} Her archive of photographs and negatives had been lost or looted.{{sfn|Holzer|2011|p=11}}

After the war, in early 1948, Katz married Ronald Lowis, of Shildon. He was a tobacconist and very involved in the local Methodist church. She became involved in church work and only occasionally took photographs.{{sfn|The Northern Echo|2012}}

Death and legacy

Lowis died on 20 January 1981{{sfn|Holzer|2011|p=11}} in Darlington, County Durham.{{sfn|The Northern Echo|2012}} From 22 October 2012 through 3 March 2013, the Jewish Museum Vienna hosted an exhibition, Vienna’s Shooting Girls: Jewish Women Photographers from Vienna, which featured the work of forty Jewish women photographers, including Katz.{{sfn|Lewin|2012}}{{sfn|Meder|Winklbauer|2012}} In the interwar period, two-thirds of all photography studios in Vienna, had been run by Jewish women and the collection paid homage to their impact on the city.{{sfn|Meder|Winklbauer|2012}} Some of Katz's work is preserved in the Vienna Museum in a special collection dedicated to photographers who took pictures of the avant-garde dancers of the interwar era.{{sfn|Kreutler|Sodin|2018}}

References

Citations

Bibliography

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  • {{cite book |ref=harv |last=Holzer |first=Anton |title=Elly Niebuhr – Fotografin aus Wien: Alltag und Haute Couture |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SZwLZpK0F2IC&pg=PA20 |date=2009 |publisher=Böhlau Verlag |location=Vienna, Austria |language=German |isbn=978-3-205-78364-0}}
  • {{cite news |ref=harv |last1=Holzer |first1=Anton |title=Schwarz & weiß: Spuren einer Fotografin |url=http://www.ireneprugger.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/extra-0312.pdf |accessdate=12 December 2018 |newspaper=Wiener Zeitung |date=4 December 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413160652/http://www.ireneprugger.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/extra-0312.pdf |archivedate=13 April 2017 |location=Vienna, Austria |pages=11 |language=German |quote=Black & white: Traces of a photographer}}
  • {{cite web |ref=harv |last1=Kreutler |first1=Frauke |last2=Sodin |first2=Elke |title=Photography and New Media |url=https://www.wienmuseum.at/en/collections/arts/photography-and-new-media.html |website=wienmuseum.at |publisher=Vienna Museum |accessdate=13 December 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181211031531/https://www.wienmuseum.at/en/collections/arts/photography-and-new-media.html |archivedate=11 December 2018 |location=Vienna, Austria |date=2018}}
  • {{cite news |ref=harv |last1=Lewin |first1=David |title=Did You Know a Jewish War Refugee? |url=http://www.newtonnews.co.uk/did-you-know-a-jewish-war-refugee/ |accessdate=13 December 2018 |newspaper=Newton News |date=30 November 2012 |archiveurl=https://archive.is/riZFA |archivedate=13 December 2018 |location=Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, England}}
  • {{cite web |ref=harv |last1=Meder |first1=Iris |last2=Winklbauer |first2=Andrea |title=Vienna’s Shooting Girls. Jewish Women Photographers from Vienna |url=http://www.jmw.at/en/exhibitions/viennas-shooting-girls-jewish-women-photographers-vienna |website=jmw.at |publisher=Jewish Museum Vienna |accessdate=13 December 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181213161433/http://www.jmw.at/en/exhibitions/viennas-shooting-girls-jewish-women-photographers-vienna |archivedate=13 December 2018 |location=Vienna, Austria |date=23 October 2012}}
  • {{cite book |ref=harv |last=Wick |first=Steve |title=The Long Night: William L. Shirer and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9dJ5UOFbH1kC&pg=PA135 |date=2011 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York City, New York |isbn=978-0-230-33849-4}}
  • {{cite news |ref={{harvid|The Northern Echo|2012}}|author= |title=Sanctuary in Shildon |url=http://remember.org/unite/katz_hella.htm |accessdate=12 December 2018 |newspaper=The Northern Echo |date=15 September 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181212233644/http://remember.org/unite/katz_hella.htm |archivedate=12 December 2018 |location=Darlington, County Durham, England |postscript=. Newspaper clipping via remember.org website}}
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External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20181212233644/http://remember.org/unite/katz_hella.htm Known works by Katz]
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