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Robert Petschow and the New Vision
Thomas Friedrich Research Grant
The Thomas Friedrich Research Grant in Photography enables researchers to spend a year working on the holdings of the photography collection at the Berlinische Galerie. In 2019 the grant, endowed by photography patron Manfred Heiting (Heiting Library Trust), was used to research Robert Petschow.
Petschow was a well-known balloonist sportsman in the Weimar Republic. By 1935 he had almost 400 ascents to his name. His aerial photographs not only appeared in trade journals and illustrated magazines but were presented at his slide lectures. He also photographed voyages by the leading airships of the day.
To convey the sense of looking down from a balloon, Petschow often cropped the image, isolating his subject. As a result his aerial photography caught the attention of the avant-garde in the late 1920s. His images were included in exhibitions and publications now associated with the New Vision movement.
But Petschow’s actions after 1933 show that he soon distanced himself from the avant-garde. As chief editor of the newspaper “Der Westen” he quickly came to terms with the Nazi regime. In 1935 he volunteered to serve in the German air force.
- Exhibited Objects
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- Deutscher Werkbund und andere
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International exhibition of the Deutscher Werkbund. Film and photo. Stuttgart, 18.5.-7.7.1929. Exhibition catalogue
- 1929
- Papier, gedruckt
- 20,6 x 14,8 cm (Außenmaß)
- Robert Petschow (1888 - 1945)
Eglisau Viaduct in Switzerland at Daybreak
- 1929
- Silbergelatinepapier
- 8,3 x 11,2 cm (Bildmaß)
- Robert Petschow (1888 - 1945)
Verlaufende Brandung an der Nordsee
- um 1930
- Silbergelatinepapier
- 16,9 x 23,1 cm (Bildmaß)
- Robert Petschow (1888 - 1945)
Ice Flow on the River Elbe near Dresden
- 1920-1935
- Silbergelatinepapier
- 16,8 x 14,8 cm (Bildmaß)
- Robert Petschow (1888 - 1945)
Waldenburg in Sachsen a.d. Mulde
- 1920-1935
- Silbergelatinepapier
- 8,1 x 11,1 cm (Bildmaß)
- Robert Petschow (1888 - 1945)
Waldenburg in Sachsen
- 1920-1935
- Silbergelatinepapier
- 8 x 11 cm (Bildmaß)
- Robert Petschow (1888 - 1945)
Village from a Balloon, Legau, Bavarian Swabia
- 1920er-Jahre
- Silbergelatinepapier
- 8,2 x 11,2 cm (Bildmaß)
- Robert Petschow (1888 - 1945)
Harvest: a Freshly Cut Field, the Harvester still at Work in the Middle
- 1920er-Jahre
- Silbergelatinepapier
- 8,4 x 11,4 cm (Bildmaß)
- Robert Petschow (1888 - 1945)
Field and Cemetery in the Snow
- 1920er-Jahre
- Silbergelatinepapier
- 27,3 x 38 cm (Bildmaß)
- Robert Petschow (1888 - 1945)
Dalmatien: Biokovo-Gebirge bei Podgora (östlich Split), die Südausläufer der Dinarischen Alpen (1800 m Höhe). Typisch ist die niedrige Vegetationszone, darüber kahles Gestein.
- 1930er-Jahre
- Silbergelatinepapier
- 16,9 x 23,2 cm (Bildmaß)
- Robert Petschow (1888 - 1945)
Versandeter Flusslauf
- vor 1929
- Silbergelatinepapier
- 29,7 x 41,1 cm (Bildmaß)
- Robert Petschow (1888 - 1945)
Abraum eines Braunkohletagebaus
- vor 1929
- Silbergelatinepapier
- 28,8 x 41 cm (Bildmaß)