Hein Wertheimer 1913-1997: Amateurfotograaf

Humanist black-and-white photographs depict street scenes, working people, and daily life observed across worldwide journeys between the 1930s and 1990s. Made by an introverted amateur photographer working in the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the portraits and travel studies reflect decades of quiet observation across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The monograph pairs selected photographs with biographical and critical essays examining the life of corporate lawyer and university professor Hein Wertheimer, whose surprise posthumous bequest of twenty-two million guilders to the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds funded the creation of the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam. Texts by Naomi Boas and Flip Bool trace his wartime survival, career, photographic archive, and the distribution of his estate.