About the German photographer, Heinz HAJEK-HALKE (1898-1983)
Heinz HAJEK-HALKE spent his childhood in Argentina. In 1915 he began studying at the Royal Art School in Berlin, which he had to interrupt a year later. In 1924 he began his first attempts at photography. In 1925 he was employed as a photographer by the Presse-Photo agency. There he worked with Willi RUGE and made his first editing and light montages. In 1948 he met Toni SCHNEIDERS and in 1949 became a member of the 'Fotoform' group and worked as a freelance photographer. From 1955 he was professor for photography and photo graphics at the University of Fine Arts (today: University of the Arts) in Berlin. In 1965 he received the DGPh Culture Prize and in 1978 the David Octavius Hill Medal. He also became an honorary member of the Society of German Photographers. One of his students was the photographer Floris Michael NEUSÜSS (1937–2020).
Photo books by Heinz HAJEK-HALKE (a selection)
'Der Alchimist' (2012); 'Phantasie und Traum' (2008); 'Anarchist' (2006); 'Form aus Licht und Schatten' (2005); 'Abstract Pictures on film' (1965); 'Der große Unbekannte. Photographien 1925-1965' (1965); 'Lichtgrafik' (1964); 'Experimentelle Fotografie' (1955)