Franz Fiedler

Franz Fiedler (17 February 1885 in Prostějov, Austria-Hungary – 5 February 1956 in Dresden, GDR) was a German photographer.

Biography
Fiedler was born in Prostějov, near Olomouc in Moravia. Fiedler was a student of Hugo Erfurth.

Career
He was regarded as an eccentric during his apprenticeship in Pilsen, and worked in 1905 and again in 1912 with Rudof Dührkoop in Hamburg, and from 1908 to 1911 with Hugo Erfurth in Dresden.

At the 1911 world exhibition in Turin he won first prize and had another exhibition in Prague in 1913. He belonged to the circle of Jaroslav Hašek and Egon Erwin Kisch and in 1916 married Erna Hauswald in Dresden where he occupied a studio at Sedanstraße 7.

In 1919, he started using a 9x12 camera and, by 1924, adopted the Leica. In 1925, he exhibited at Film und Foto in Stuttgart.

Fiedler adopted a face image as his emblem and claimed expertise in photographing picturesque women.

His studio was bombed in 1945. He stored exhibition photos with family in Moravia. Post-1945, he authored photography books in East Germany. Anneliese Kretschmer was one of his students in Dortmund.

Publications

 * 'Dresden in Bildern', Aufnahmen von Franz Fiedler, herausgegeben von Hans Wolfgang Singer, Wien, Leipzig, Verlag Dr. Hans Epstein, 1930 ('Orbis urbium – Schöne Städte in schönen Bildern').
 * Dufek, Antonin, Franz Fiedler, Fotografie/Photographs/Fotografien (Brünn, Prag, 2005)
 * Franz Fiedler. Fotografie. Technische Sammlungen der Stadt Dresden, Ausstellung 4.4.-3.6.2007