| General info : | | Adolf Lazi (born December 22, 1884 in Munich - died January 9, 1955 in Stuttgart (aged 70)) was a German sculptor and photographer.
In 1950, he founded the "International School for Higher Photography – Lazi," also known as the "Lazi School," in Stuttgart.
Adolf Lazi began his apprenticeship in 1896 with the architect and sculptor of religious art Karl Heinrich Seboldt. As a painter and sculptor, he was accepted into the United Workshops for Domestic Culture in 1900.
Adolf Lazi, who had been practicing photography since the age of fourteen, made it his main profession in 1906 and founded his own studio in Munich for technical photographs and portraits.
In 1908, Adolf Lazi left the Bavarian capital and moved to Paris. There he found employment at the Nadar Fils photo studio, run by the son (Paul Nadar) of the photography pioneer Nadar. With the outbreak of war in 1914, he had to leave Paris for Germany. He served on the Western Front. In 1917, after a stay in a military hospital, he was discharged as unfit for service.
In 1918, he founded a photography studio in Freudenstadt in the Black Forest, which he ran under difficult conditions. This was followed by successful participation in German and international exhibitions.
His son Franz Lazi was born in 1922.
With his move to Stuttgart in 1928, his work shifted from portrait photography to industrial commissions involving product and architectural photography. From 1932 to 1933, the modern studio building he designed was constructed. In 1933, five years after his appointment, Adolf Lazi resigned from the GDL (German Photographic Society ) when Franz Grainer, at a conference in Erfurt, committed the association to National Socialist ideology and admitted Heinrich Hoffmann .
From 1933 to 1945, Adolf Lazi stated that he was "eliminated as an enemy of the state" by his professional group because of his pacifist activities. During this time, he was prohibited from carrying out state and municipal commissions. Industrial commissions, including advertising photography for private clients, provided him with his main source of income during the Nazi era. He also produced numerous travel photographs during this period.
Adolf Lazi worked as a photographer for major companies before, during, and after the war. For Daimler-Benz, Bosch, and Kreidler in Stuttgart, as well as for Kugelfischer in Schweinfurt and numerous other businesses, he produced large-scale industrial photography for many years. Architects commissioned him for documentation work. Flooring manufacturers and fabric producers used his photographs in product catalogs and for advertising purposes.
The watch factories of Kienzle, Rodenstock, and Junghans hired him, as did jewelry companies like Erna Zarges in Murnau. Among the everyday objects that Adolf Lazi photographed in the post-war period, there was often Werkbund-influenced, functionalist design, especially porcelain from Arzberg and Fürstenberg, cutlery from WMF in Geislingen and from Pott in Solingen, and glass from the Gral company in Göppingen.
After the war, Lazi received further industrial commissions.
From 1947 onwards, he increasingly strove for exemplary stylistic and technical quality standards in photography.
The artistic estate, the Adolf Lazi Archive, is now located in Esslingen at the Lazi Academy – The European School of Film and Design and is managed by A. Ingo Lazi. A conservation plan was developed by Karen Lämmle at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. | |
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