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ID: 500115136
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500115136

 

Record Type: Person
Claasen, Hermann (German photographer, 1899-1987)

Note: Claasen began taking pictures at the age of 14 with a camera made from a cigar box. During the 1940s, he turned to professional photography, recording images of ruins and people during World War II. His image "Christ Among the Ruins" is among his best known.

Names:
Claasen, Hermann (preferred,V,index,German,NA,U)
Claasen, Hermann (Dutch-P,NA)
Hermann, Claasen (V,display,German,NA,U)

Nationalities:
German (preferred)

Roles:
artist (preferred)
photographer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Cologne (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) (inhabited place)
Died:  Cologne (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) (inhabited place)

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Claasen, Hermann (I)

Biographies:
(German photographer, 1899-1987) ..... [VP Preferred]
(German photographer, 1899-1987) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Claasen, Hermann ........ [RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
..................................  20th-Century Photography (1996) 108
..................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 259237
Hermann, Claasen ........ [VP]
..................................  20th-Century Photography (1996) 108

Subject: ........ [Gallery Systems, RKD, VP]
....................  20th-Century Photography (1996) 108
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n85058928
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n85058928
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 259237
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q1610834
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... 20th-Century Photography (1996) 108
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