Brehme, Hugo (1882-1954)
The photographer Hugo Brehme was born in Eisenach, Germany, and settled in Mexico in 1908 following trips through Africa and Central America. The photo studio he opened there soon became famous around the world. Such exponents of modernism as Tina Modotti, Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Henri Cartier-Bresson admired Brehme and consulted him on technical matters.
The Brehme Papers include around 400 photographs showing landscapes and architecture, people and traditions, as well as monuments and revolutionary heroes. Brehme's picturesque images document the many facets of life in Mexico, particularly during the age of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917) and the 1920s and 1930s.
The collection was exhibited at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, and an exhibition catalog was published in 2004 (Hugo Brehme: Fotograf; Mexiko zwischen Revolution und Romantik).
Please click the following link for a special presentation of the Brehme Papers:
http://www.iai.spk-berlin.de/nachlass/brehme/index.html