Renate Rössing, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Renate Rössing

German photographer

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1929

Place of Birth: Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 11-Jul-2005

Profession: photographer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Renate Rössing

  • Renate Rössing (born Renate Winkler: 15 April 1929 – 11 July 2005) was a German photographer.
  • Her career continued beyond the changes of 1989/90.
  • Prior to that, as an East German citizen, she enjoyed privileges which enabled her to travel abroad.
  • She is nevertheless best known for pictures taken in and around her home cities of Leipzig and Dresden during the 1950s and 1960s.
  • Her work embraced photojournalism, portraiture and landscapes.
  • For historians, some of her most interesting pictures deal with daily life during the years of postwar reconstruction in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
  • In the late 1940s Renate Winkler teamed up with fellow photography student Roger Rössing.
  • After this they worked closely together: authorship of their pictures was attributed to "Rössing-Winkler" or, following their marriage in 1951, simply to "Rössing".
  • In most cases it therefore becomes impossible to know which of them was holding the camera for any individual picture.
  • Rolf Richter, a journalist who was also a close friend of the couple, recalls that Renate was often the more adventurous of the two when it came to selecting locations.
  • She would crawl to the edge of flat roofs on tall buildings in order to capture a more striking panorama.
  • It was also generally Renate who took responsibility for image composition and for the placement of image and text.

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