Source
Gotthard Schuh
Citation
Wikipedia contributors. “Gotthard Schuh.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Accessed 2026-05-19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Schuh
Relevance
Pointer-tier source for day-month-level birth/death tokens, career narrative, and FoM inclusion statement for Gotthard Schuh. Per CREDIBILITY.md, Wikipedia is a pointer only.
Key excerpts (verbatim, fetched 2026-05-19)
- “born 22 December 1897 in Berlin-Schöneberg, Germany”
- “died 29 December 1969 in Küsnacht, Switzerland (aged 72)”
- “Nationality: Swiss (born to Swiss parents)”
- “Initially worked as a painter from 1919, then transitioned to photography in 1926”
- Photojournalist for “Zürcher Illustrierte, Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, Paris Match, and Life”
- “served as picture editor for Neue Zürcher Zeitung”
- “co-founded the Academy of Swiss Photographers”
- Published “Inseln der Götter (1941), documenting his journey through Southeast Asia”
- “In 1955 Edward Steichen selected two of Schuh’s photographs for the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Family of Man seen by an audience of 9 million.”
- “One photograph depicted lovers resting beside bicycles in an Italian olive grove; the other showed a boy playing marbles in Java.”
Notes
- The December 22, 1897 / December 29, 1969 day-month tokens are consistent with the existing src-schuh-1967-retrospective (in repo,
verified: false), which gives the same dates. Two-source consistency (Wikipedia pointer + pre-existing monograph reference), but the print monograph was not fetched this round; the day-month tokens remain at pointer-tier status pending a successful fetch of the Fotostiftung Schweiz estate page. - The Wikipedia description of the two FoM photographs (Italian olive grove / boy playing marbles in Java) is consistent with the MoMA Master Checklist plate data: photo-0016 (Italy, Lovers) and photo-0075 (Java, Children A).
- The Fotostiftung Schweiz estate-archive URL redirected to a generic portal page in this round (302 to fotostiftung.ch.zetcom.net/de/artists/); the Schuh-specific page was not surfaced. Marked as access barrier; not recorded as a fetched corroboration.
- Cache artifact:
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