Left: Gelatin silver print, post-card sized

Right: Image published in ”Liebe und Ehe“, Berlin, October 1929: 255.

Hermann Schieberth was an Austrian photographer born on 12 February 1876 at Varna, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary (now in Romania) and died in Shanghai, China in 1948.

He had moved to Vienna in 1909 after having spent a period working in Zwittau (Svitavy). He first attracted attention when he showed at the Kunstsalon Arnot in 1912. He ran his studio on the Opernring in Vienna from 1910 to 1937. In 1913, he opened a branch of his studio in Kaltenleutgeben, near Vienna. Trude Fleischmann worked as a photographer for Schieberth early in her career.

His works were primarily of other creatives (such as Oscar Kokoschka, Karl Kraus and Adolf Loos), politicians and aristocrats. He also was known for his nudes which received wide circulation in portfolios, magazines and even as postcards.