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  • Werner Rohde. Untitled (Self-Portrait). September 1929. Gelatin silver print, 3 13/16 x 3 1/8" (9.7 x 8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of Thomas Walther (MoMA 1839.2001). © 2014 Werner Rohde/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Germany
  • Alternate Name(s) Werner "Tut" Rohde (Alternate Name)
    Werner Wilhelm Rohde (Birth Name)
    Werner Franz Rohde (Alternate Name)

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Artist Chronology

May 16, 1906
Born
At location: Werner Rohde
Bremen
Early 1900s
His father, a reverse-glass painter and conservator, introduces him to photography during his childhood; they use a large-format camera
At location: Werner Rohde
Bremen
1925–27
Werner Rohde studies under Hans Finsler at the Kunstgewerbeschule Burg Giebichenstein
At location: Werner Rohde, Hans Finsler
Halle
1927
Begins using his father's 13 x 18 cm camera
At location: Werner Rohde
Bremen
1928
Ausstellung junger Künstler. Eine Weihnachtsmesse at the Moderne Galerie Wertheim
Participant: Werner Rohde
Berlin
May 18–July 7, 1929
Internationale Ausstellung des Deutschen Werkbunds Film und Foto (FiFo) at Städtische Ausstellungshallen

Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich
August 28–September 22, 1929

Im Lichthof des Ehemaligen Kunstgewerbemuseums, Prinz-Albrechs-Strasse 7, Berlin
October 19–November 17, 1929

Stadtmuseum, Danzig
(dates unknown)

Österreichisches Museum, Vienna
February 20–March 31, 1930

Agram, Zagreb
April 5–14, 1930

Münchner Bund/Verein Ausstellungspark München E.V. (as part of Internationale Ausstellung. Das Lichtbild), Munich
June 5–September 7, 1930

Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo
April 1931

Asahi Shimbun, Osaka
July 1–7, 1931

Participant: Berenice Abbott, Herbert Bayer, Aenne Biermann, Anton Bruehl, Francis Bruguière, Max Burchartz, Florence Henri, André Kertész, Germaine Krull, Helmar Lerski, El Lissitzky, Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), László Moholy-Nagy, Walter A. Peterhans, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Hans Richter, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Charles Sheeler, Edward Steichen, Maurice Tabard, Umbo (Otto Umbehr), Edward Weston, Lucia Moholy, Werner Rohde, George Hoyningen-Huene, Gustav Klutsis, Karl Blossfeldt, Heinz Loew, Erich Comeriner, Semyon Fridlyand, Roman Karmen, Eli Lotar, Oskar Nerlinger, Robert Petschow, Sasha Stone, Dziga Vertov, Yva (Else Simon), Willy Zielke, Irene Bayer-Hecht, Hans Finsler, Cami Stone
Organizer: El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy, Hans Richter, Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Dziga Vertov
Visitor: Alexander Hackenschmied
Stuttgart
June–November 1929
Werner Rohde lives in Paris, where he befriends and photographs Paul Citroen and Marianne Breslauer
During this period he uses his father's 9x12 cm camera, a Compur from F. Deckel
At location: Paul Citroen, Werner Rohde, Marianne Breslauer
Paris
1929
Paul Citroen travels to Paris, where he meets Marianne Breslauer and Werner Rohde
At location: Paul Citroen, Werner Rohde, Marianne Breslauer
Paris
June–September 1930
Das Lichtbild exhibition
Participant: Aenne Biermann, Bill Brandt, Max Burchartz, César Domela-Nieuwenhuis, Florence Henri, Lotte Jacobi, André Kertész, Germaine Krull, Helmar Lerski, Walter A. Peterhans, August Sander, Umbo (Otto Umbehr), Edward Weston, Lucia Moholy, Werner Rohde, Franz Roh, Marianne Breslauer, Alexander Hackenschmied, Edmund Kesting, Jean Moral, Willy Zielke, Lore Feininger, Hans Finsler
Munich
January 11–February 9, 1931
Die Neue Fotografie at the Kunstgewerbemuseum
Participant: Berenice Abbott, Aenne Biermann, Florence Henri, Helmar Lerski, Werner Rohde, Hans Finsler
Basel
1932
Exposition internationale de la photographie et du cinéma at Palais des Beaux-Arts
Participant: Germaine Krull, Roger Parry, Werner Rohde, Lee Miller
Brussels
December 1932
Werner Rohde. Photos und Hinterglasmalereien at the Künstlerverein
Participant: Werner Rohde
Hamburg
February 1933
Solo exhibition of 13 x 18 cm photographs at the Buchhandlung Neubert
Participant: Werner Rohde
Halle
May 10–October 31, 1933
Fifth Triennale: International Exhibit for Modern Decorative Art
Participant: Werner Rohde
Milan
June and July 1933
Deuxième exposition internationale de la photographie et du cinéma at Palais des Beaux-Arts
Participant: André Kertész, Werner Rohde, Alexander Hackenschmied, Sasha Stone, Cami Stone
Brussels
November 7–19, 1933
Die Kamera. Ausstellung für Fotografie, Druck und Reproduktion at the exhibition halls of the radio tower
Participant: Walter A. Peterhans, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Umbo (Otto Umbehr), Werner Rohde, Willy Zielke
Berlin
October 1934
Internationale Lichtbildausstellung
Participant: Werner Rohde
Berlin
1935
Karl Nierendorf hires Werner Rohde to make portraits of his gallery's artists, including Georg Muche
At location: Georg Muche, Werner Rohde
Berlin
1935
Porträts solo exhibition at Kunsthandel Graphisches Kabinett
Participant: Werner Rohde
Bremen
1940–44
Serves in the German army; held in an English POW camp for the final two years
At location: Werner Rohde
Holland
1945–90
Lives in Worpswede, an artist colony. Uses photography to make documentation of his reverse-glass paintings
At location: Werner Rohde
Worpswede
January 15, 1990
Dies
At location: Werner Rohde
Worpswede

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