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Last Name Wolff

Given Name Paul

alt. Names P. W. ; Dr. Paul Wolff ;

Marriage 1: Helene Dörr (1887-1959) ; 2: Annette Beiger (1906-xxxx)

Children 2 sons: Klaus Heinrich Wolff (1916-1988) from 1st marriage ; Stephan Wolff (1943-xxxx) from 2nd marriage

Year born 1887 in Mülhausen

Year died 1951

Place of death Frankfurt am Main / Francfort on Main

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education studied medicine (up to Ph.D.) and habilitated 1914 in Straßburg / Strassbourg, France

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for P. W.: Formen des Lebens. Botanische Lichtbildstudien (Königstein im Taunus & Leipzig: Langewiesche Publ., 1940) ; Aus zoologischen Gärten - Lichtbildstudien (1965) ; Alt-Frankfurt (with 40 photographies) ; Meine Erfahrungen mit der Leica ; Bernhard Hermkes: 12 Mietwohnungen in einem Block (1930) ;

Patronage

Collaborators with photographer Alfred Tritschler, P. W. founded the company "Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler" in Frankfurt am Main ;

Techniques architectural, botanical, zoological, topographical, industrial, and technical b&w photography with Leica camera

Sample(s) www.photography-now.com/artist/paul-wolff (w. exhib.); www.voelklinger-huette.org/de/faszination-weltkulturerbe/kuenstler-und-kunstprojekte/paul-wolff

Archival sources www.overgaard.dk/the-story-behind-that-picture-0122_gb-Dr-Paul_Wolff.html ; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolff

Published sources Frankfurt in Fotografien v. P. W. 1927-43 (Munich 1991) ; Werner Schollenberger: Automobile in den 30er Jahren – Aufnahmen aus dem berühmten Bildarchiv Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler (Freiburg 2013) ;

other German photographer, since 1919 active in Frankfurt am Main.

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