Photographers

Elisabeth Hase (1905–1991) was a German commercial, documentary, and avant-garde photographer active in Frankfurt for nearly six decades. Educated at the School of Applied Arts and the Städelschule under Paul Renner and Willi Baumeister, she became known for her New Objectivity architectural work, surreal doll studies, and inventive self-portraits. In 1933 she founded her own studio to maintain artistic independence during the Third Reich. Her archive survived the 1944 bombing of Frankfurt, and she continued her practice after the war, later focusing on plant portraits and advertising work. Hase’s photographs are held in major museum collections including the Folkwang Museum, the Albertina, the Bauhaus Archive, MoMA, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.