Rosemarie Clausen

Rosemarie Clausen (née Rose Marie Margarethe Elisabeth Kögel); (5 March 1907 – 9 January 1990) was a German photographer.

In 1934, she married the journalist and film producer Jürgen Clausen (1905–1944), who was killed as a pilot of a night fighter during the "Big Week".

Clausen, who originally wanted to become a portrait painter, completed a photographer apprenticeship with Marie Böhm, the head of the renowned studio Becker & Maass, and after three years passed the assistant examination with distinction at the Lette-Verein in Berlin.

With their work, these photographers contributed to shaping the general self-image of the National Socialist Volksgemeinschaft as well as Women in Nazi Germany in particular.

[5] In 1941, her photographs – besides those of Liselotte Orgel-Köhne [de] and Erna Lendvai-Dircksen – were shown in an exhibition compiled by the Reichsfrauenführung under the title Frauenschaffen in Deutschland in the German-occupied Netherlands, for the first time from October 1941 in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, with further stations in Utrecht, Maastricht and Arnhem.

[6] In the same year, she published photographs of death masks of "great Germans" (including Austrians such as Adalbert Stifter) under the title Die Vollendeten.

"In dynamic photographs", the dead – according to the perception of art historian Isabel Richter 2010 – "looked down on the viewers in a sovereign, sublime and heroic manner".