Werner Wolff

Werner Wolff (American, b. Germany 1911, d. United States, 2002) left Nazi Germany in 1936 for New York City, where he found work in the darkroom of the newly formed Pix photo agency. He later joined the US army, and regularly completed assignments for the wartime magazine Yank. With Germany’s defeat in the Second World War, Wolff was one of the first to photograph “The Eagle’s Nest,” Hitler’s mountain retreat in Berchtesgaden. Returning to New York, he joined the Black Star photo agency and remained one of its key contributors for decades. His many assignments are chronicled in the Werner Wolff Archive, housed at The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University, which includes negatives, contact sheets, photographs, transparencies, publication information, correspondence, and other related ephemera.