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gelatin silver print

signed (pencil) on verso

According to Enkelmann himself, he came to Berlin in 1921. From 1927 to 1929, he worked as an assistant in F. H. Nolte's photo studio, which specialized in advertising photos, and then worked in Hans Robertson's studio. Here he worked primarily in the field of dance photography and as a portrait photographer.
After the National Socialists seized power, Hans Robertson was expelled from the Berlin Association of Photojournalists as a Jew and decided to emigrate to Denmark. He therefore handed over his studio and his archive of negatives to Enkelmann in June 1933. The archive also contained the stock Robertson had previously received when he took over Lili Baruch's studio. Enkelmann continued to work under Robertson's name for a short time, before continuing the studio under his own name from 1935 with his future wife, the Jewish photographer Irene Krämer, who had been trained by Robertson. After their apartment and studio were destroyed in an air raid, Enkelmann and Krämer lived and worked with the photographer Hans Rama from 1942.
(wikipedia, translated with deepL)