Wolfgang Georg Sievers, AO (18 September, 1913 – 7 August, 2007) was an Australian photographer who specialised in architectural and industrial photography. Sievers was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was Professor Johannes Sievers, an art and architectural historian with the German Foreign Office until his dismissal by the Nazi government in 1933. He authored the first four volumes of a monograph on neo-classical architect Karl Schinkel. His mother was Herma Schiffer, a writer and educator of Jewish background who was Director of the Institute for Educational Films.He studied at the Contempora School for the Applied Arts in Berlin from 1936 to 1938, which like the Bauhaus, strongly emphasized the unity of all applied arts. He took architectural photographs for his father's books on Berlin's historical buildings, particularly the work of Karl Schinkel. He also spent a year working in Portugal 1935 to 1936. In 1938, he was retained as a teacher at the Contempora, but decided to immigrate to Australia following news of the school's immanent closure by the authorities. He had arranged for his photographic equipment to be transported, but was briefly questioned by the Gestapo, then conscripted as an aerial photographer for the Luftwaffe. He fled the country immediately, going first to England in June.In Australia, Sievers opened a studio in South Yarra, Melbourne.

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  • Wolfgang Georg Sievers, AO (18 September, 1913 – 7 August, 2007) was an Australian photographer who specialised in architectural and industrial photography. Sievers was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was Professor Johannes Sievers, an art and architectural historian with the German Foreign Office until his dismissal by the Nazi government in 1933. He authored the first four volumes of a monograph on neo-classical architect Karl Schinkel. His mother was Herma Schiffer, a writer and educator of Jewish background who was Director of the Institute for Educational Films.He studied at the Contempora School for the Applied Arts in Berlin from 1936 to 1938, which like the Bauhaus, strongly emphasized the unity of all applied arts. He took architectural photographs for his father's books on Berlin's historical buildings, particularly the work of Karl Schinkel. He also spent a year working in Portugal 1935 to 1936. In 1938, he was retained as a teacher at the Contempora, but decided to immigrate to Australia following news of the school's immanent closure by the authorities. He had arranged for his photographic equipment to be transported, but was briefly questioned by the Gestapo, then conscripted as an aerial photographer for the Luftwaffe. He fled the country immediately, going first to England in June.In Australia, Sievers opened a studio in South Yarra, Melbourne. After war was declared, he volunteered for the Australian Army and served from 1942 to 1946. Following demobilsation, he established a studio at Grosvenor Chambers in fashionable Collins Street, initially drawing many of his commissions from fellow European immigrants including the architect Frederick Romberg, and Ernst Fuchs who had arrived from Vienna. During his early years in Melbourne, Sievers became a lifelong friend of fellow emigre photographer Helmut Newton and his Australian actress wife June Browne, who later made photographs herself under the pseudonym "Alice Springs". (en)
  • Wolfgang Georg Sievers (* 18. September 1913 in Berlin; † 6. August 2007 in Melbourne) war ein australischer Fotograf deutscher Abstammung. Nach seinem Studium an der Contemporaschule für Angewandte Kunst musste er aufgrund der jüdischen Herkunft seiner Mutter Deutschland verlassen, um zuerst in Portugal und ab 1938 in Australien zu leben.In seiner Arbeit spezialisierte sich Sievers erst auf Architektur- und später auf Industriefotografie. Er überzeugt durch seine Komposition, die ständig ein harmonisches Gleichgewicht zwischen Mensch und Maschine beibehält. 2000 fand eine große retrospektive Ausstellung im Arquivo Fotografico Municipal de Lisboa in Portugal statt. 2002 schloss die Australische Nationalbibliothek einen Vertrag mit Sievers, wonach man über einige Jahre Sievers' gesamtes Archiv für die fotografische Sammlung erwarb. (de)
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  • Wolfgang Georg Sievers, AO (18 September, 1913 – 7 August, 2007) was an Australian photographer who specialised in architectural and industrial photography. Sievers was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was Professor Johannes Sievers, an art and architectural historian with the German Foreign Office until his dismissal by the Nazi government in 1933. He authored the first four volumes of a monograph on neo-classical architect Karl Schinkel. His mother was Herma Schiffer, a writer and educator of Jewish background who was Director of the Institute for Educational Films.He studied at the Contempora School for the Applied Arts in Berlin from 1936 to 1938, which like the Bauhaus, strongly emphasized the unity of all applied arts. He took architectural photographs for his father's books on Berlin's historical buildings, particularly the work of Karl Schinkel. He also spent a year working in Portugal 1935 to 1936. In 1938, he was retained as a teacher at the Contempora, but decided to immigrate to Australia following news of the school's immanent closure by the authorities. He had arranged for his photographic equipment to be transported, but was briefly questioned by the Gestapo, then conscripted as an aerial photographer for the Luftwaffe. He fled the country immediately, going first to England in June.In Australia, Sievers opened a studio in South Yarra, Melbourne. (en)
  • Wolfgang Georg Sievers (* 18. September 1913 in Berlin; † 6. August 2007 in Melbourne) war ein australischer Fotograf deutscher Abstammung. (de)
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  • Wolfgang Sievers (en)
  • Wolfgang Sievers (de)
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