Tag: body culture

Ann-Hermann dance school, 1925

Gerhard Riebicke :: Ann-Hermann’s Dance School, Berlin, Riebicke was the photographer on the set of Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit, 1925.[Leni Riefestahl was one of the actresses] | src mdf.ru via billyjane
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Gieb acht, mein lieber Jägermann

Gerhard Riebicke :: Gieb acht, mein lieber Jägermann, 13-10-1934.
Caption reads: “Be careful, my dear Jägersmann (Hunter man),
That woman can hurt you badly
Her arrow bears embers and fire!”

Riebicke was a sports photographer from Berlin known especially from the nudes from the film “Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit” (1925). In 1940 large parts of his archives were destroyed during a bombing. Vintage Riebicke prints have become very rare. He was the most important sport, dance and nudism (FKK – Freikorperkultur) photographer in Germany between 1925 and 1935. His images were widely printed in Germany as well internationally in magazines, newspapers and books. | src anamorfose (broken link)

Open air exercise, ca. 1936

Gerhard Riebicke ~ Open air exercise, around 1936. | src anamorfose also on ODLP ~ l’œil de la photographie

Dämmerung (Twilight), 1925

Gerhard Riebicke :: Dämmerung (Twilight), 1925. Gelatin silver bromide print.
This image is taken from the film ‘Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit’ (‘The Way to Strength and Health: a film of modern body culture’, 1925). Along with Helmy Hurt, Gerhard Riebicke was the set photographer for the UFA film directed by Wilhelm Prager and Nicolaus Kaufmann.

Gerhard Riebicke ::

Gymnasium Nudes, advertising photograph for the film ‘Wege zu Kraft
und Schönheit’, 1925.
Vintage gelatin silver print.

Along with Helmy Hurt, Gerhard
Riebicke was the set photographer for the UFA film ’Wege zu Kraft
und Schönheit’ (‘The Way to Strength
and Health: a film of modern body culture’, 1925),
directed by Wilhelm Prager and Nicolaus Kaufmann (casting, among others, Jack
Dempsey and Leni Riefenstahl). / src: liveaucioneers

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