German Historical Museum
The collections of the German Historical Museum
Collections overview › Picture Archive › Archives of professional photographers
Archives of professional photographers
- Gerhard Gronefeld (born 1911, living in Munich)
stock of negatives with 50,000 motifs from 1936 to 1965- armament of Germany
- World War II with a series of photos from the Soviet Union, Poland, and Yugoslavia
- post-war period in Berlin and the occupied zones until 1949
- social and political life in the Federal Republic of Germany until 1965
- Max Kirnberger (born 1902, died 1983)
stock of colored slides with 482 motifs from 1937 to 1941- photos of Jewish ghettos in Poland
- Klaus Lehnartz (born 1916, living in Berlin)
stock of negatives with 14,200 motifs from 1960 to 1989- places and landscapes of the GDR
- political events in the GDR between 1954 and 1981
- Ursula Litzmann (born 1916, living in Düren)
stock of negatives with 15,000 motifs from 1938 to 1949- "Eastern Workers"
- the cultural life in the Western zones and in the Federal Republic between 1945 and 1950 (e.g. portraits of authors and musicians)
- prisoners of war and refugees
- Liselotte Orgel-Köhne (born 1918, living in Berlin)
stock of negatives with 700 motifs from 1936 to 1949- everyday life of women and women's organisations during the era of National Socialism
- Berlin after 1945
- Boris Puschkin (born 1915, died 1967 in Moscow)
stock of negatives with 170 motifs from 1942 to 1947- World War II / Battle of Berlin
- life in Berlin
- Martin Schmidt (living in Berlin)
stock of negatives with 40,000 motifs from 1958 to 1989- social and political life in the GDR
