The photographer and collector FC Gundlach died in Hamburg at the age of 95. A spokeswoman for the Elbschloss Residenz, where Gundlach last lived, confirmed a corresponding report on Sunday Hamburger Abendblatts. According to his foundation, Gundlach died on Friday.
FC Gundlach (actually Franz Christian) was born in 1926 in Heinebach, Hesse. After graduating from school, he learned the trade at a private photography school in Kassel. He started his career at a time when the sequence of a shoot was not yet organized by large production companies. The rule was: yourself is the photographer and often everything in one person – location scout, illuminator, hairdresser, stylist and assistant. His clients were next to the elegant magazine Film and wife high-circulation magazines like Stern, Quick and Brigitte.
Gundlach became one of the most important fashion photographers of the German post-war period. In addition to models, numerous actors and actresses such as Cary Grant, Romy Schneider and Zarah Leander also appeared in front of his camera. At the end of the 1960s, Gundlach changed sides and founded the service company “Professional Photo Service” (PPS) in Hamburg. Later the “PPS-Galerie FC Gundlach” was added, the first pure photo gallery in Germany.
In the early 1990s Gundlach sold his company and became a passionate collector and exhibition maker. In 2000 Gundlach transferred his extensive collection to a foundation, which found its home on permanent loan in the House of Photography he founded in Hamburg’s Deichtorhallen.
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