Else Thalemann
Germany (1901—1984)Born into a wealthy family, Else Thalemann opened a photographic studio and darkroom in her family’s house in Berlin. She photographed the city, industrial landscapes and scenes of everyday life. In the early 1930s, she worked for the Berlin-based photographic agency Mauritius and met Ernst Fuhrmann, with whom she collaborated from 1934. Fuhrmann’s biosophical ideas influenced her photographs of plants, including the 112 images she produced for his book Das Wunder der Pflanze, published in 1935. During the Second World War, Allied bombing destroyed her Berlin studio, and most of her negatives were lost.
