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| 2851 "Outdoor nudes jumping" by Gerhard Riebicke (1925) |
Born in 1878 in Lausitz (now Forst), Gerhard Riebicke spent his childhood in Switzerland. Then he studied in Tubingen, worked as a house teacher in Posen (now Poznań), and in the meantime learned the technique of photography alone, as autodidact. In 1909 he became press photographer in Berlin. Gradually, his focus was on sports and Free Body Culture photography (ball games, jumps, dance and bathing scenes).
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