Schwarz, Heinrich

Date born:  1894

Place Born:  Prague, Czech Republic

Date died:  1974

Place died:  New York, NY

Early historian of photography; scholar of graphics in general.

"Schwarz was a pioneer of the study of photography's historical evolution and development and its relationship with the traditional pictorial arts. He proposed that photography benefitted from the 'inner-preparedness' it had been given by the fact that the 'fixed viewpoint had become the alpha and omega of the aesthetic credo." (Hamber).

Home Country:  Germany/United States

Sources: Parker, William. "Introduction." Schwarz, Heinrich. Art and Photography: Forerunners and Influences: Selected Essays. Layton, UT: G. M. Smith/Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1985; Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. .353-5; Hamber, Anthony J. "A Higher Branch of the Art": Photographing the Fine Arts in England, 1839-1880. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, 1996, pp. 23-24; Wendland, Ulrike. Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. Munich: Saur, 1999, vol. 2, pp. 630-635.

Bibliography: [collected essays:] Art and Photography: Forerunners and Influences: Selected Essays. Layton, UT: G. M. Smith/Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1985; Salzburg und das Salzkammergut: eine künstlerische Entdeckung in hundert Bildern des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Vienna: A. Schroll, 1926; David Octavius Hill: der Meister der Photographie. Leipzig: Insel, 1931, English, David Octavius Hill, Master of Photography. New York:The Viking Press, 1931; Galerie des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts im Oberen Belvedere. Vienna: A. Schroll, 1937.

Subject's name: Heinrich Schwarz