Hans Robertson

He had a studio in Berlin focused on photography of dance, theatre, and portraits of its people including Harald Kreutzberg, Vera Skoronel and Mary Wigman, and of other public figures such as Käthe Kollwitz, Heinrich Mann, Gustav Stresemann and Max Schmeling.

[3][4] Around 1927 Robertson took over the studio of Lili Baruch in Berlin at Kurfürstendamm, which specialised in theatre and dance photography, and ran it from 1928 to 1933.

[5] As a dance and industrial photographer, as well as a photojournalist, Robertson became one of the city's most renowned portraitists, especially of writers, artists and politicians such as Käthe Kollwitz, Heinrich Mann and Gustav Stresemann.

He became particularly famous for his photographs of modern dancers such as Harald Kreutzberg, Gret Palucca, Vera Skoronel and Mary Wigman,[5][6][7] as well as the boxer Max Schmeling.

[2] Under the Nazi regime, Robertson handed over his studio,[8] including the negative stock, to a former associate, Siegfried Enkelmann (1905–1978), on 30 June 1933.