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Dec 01, 1898 Berlin Died on 11 May 1983 (aged 84)
German photographer
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About Heinz Hajek Halke
- Heinz Hajek-Halke (1898–1983) was a German experimental photographer who co-founded the Fotoform group with Otto Steinert.Heinz Hajek-Halke, born in Berlin, Germany in 1898, the son of Paul Halke.
- He spent part of his childhood in Argentina.
- He started to study graphics in Berlin in 1915, served as a soldier in 1916 in World War One, and then continued his studies after that.Heinz Hajek-Halke worked as a photo editor, press photographer, and commercial artist, concentrating almost from the start on montage techniques.
- During World War II, he lived quietly and photographed small animal life-forms.In 1949, Hajek-Halke became a member of the German group Fotoform and his abstractions, photomontages and luminograms were included in the first of two "subjektive fotografie" exhibitions.
- Hajek-Halke was appointed lecturer in photography and graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin in 1955.
- Along with Felix H.
- Man, he won the 1965 Kulturpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photographie.
- During his lifetime he published two books, Experimentelle Fotografie and Lichtgrafik.
- He died in Berlin in 1983.
