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Werner Mantz

Cologne (Germany) , 28.04.1901 - Eijsden (Netherlands) , 12.05.1983

Werner Mantz is known as one of the most important photographers of the Neues Bauen movement of modernist architecture in Cologne in the 1920s. Born and raised in Cologne, he opened a photography studio in 1921. Initially he made portraits of famous intellectuals, artists and politicians. In 1926 he began receiving assignments as an architectural photographer. Architecture magazines such as Bauwelt, Die Form and Bauwarte often published his work. It was these images that made Cologne's modernist architecture known beyond the city limits. In 1932 Mantz opened a second studio in Maastricht, and in 1938 he moved to the Netherlands. There he returned to portrait photography and specialized in portraits of children.