Hugo Brehme was a German photographer. Brehme was born in Eisenach and settled in Mexico in 1908 after travelling through Africa and Central America. He opened a photography studio there, which soon became famous around the world. Exponents of modernism such as Tina Modotti, Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Henri Cartier-Bresson valued Brehme’s expertise and went to him for advice on technical matters. His picturesque photographs document the many different sides of Mexico during the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917) and the 1920s and 1930s.

Material:
Some of the photographs can be found in the catalogues “Hugo Brehme. 1882-1954. Fotograf. Mexiko zwischen Revolution und Romantik” (Berlin 2004) and “Hugo Brehme y la Revolución Mexicana: una exposición del Servicio Alemán de Intercambio Académico, de la Embajada de la República Federal de Alemania en México y de la Cátedra Extraordinaria Guillermo y Alejandro de Humboldt” (Mexico City 2009).

• approx. 400 photographs (landscapes, architecture, people, traditions, monuments, heroes of the revolution)
• approx. 300 proofs 
• 76 reproductions from the exposition "Hugo Brehme y la Revolución Mexicana"

Keywords: Mexico, history of photography

Hugo Brehme and the Mexican Revolution
Federal Programme
Miradas alemanas