13 Facts About Johanna Kissling

Johanna Kissling was a pioneer German photographer based in Scotland.

Johanna Kissling lived in Scotland with her son, the ethnographer and photographer Werner Kissling.

Johanna Kissling was born in Germany in 1875 into an aristocratic, land-owning family.

Johanna Kissling married the great grandson of the founder of a wealthy brewing family, Conrad Kissling KG.

When Johanna Kissling died, 83 years later, that same postcard would still be in his possession, found in his single suitcase in his room.

The rise of the Nazi Party in the Weimar Republic continued to distress the family and after Adolf Hitler's National Revolution in 1933, Johanna Kissling was forced to resign his position at the German embassy.

Johanna Kissling moved to Cambridge, having acquired the position as 'Keeper of Collections' at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology but he continued travelling taking photos.

Johanna Kissling came to live with her son in Scotland, they bought The Kings Arms Hotel in Melrose, Scottish Borders, that was owned by Johanna.

Dr Kissling and Johanna had always been very close, but she was unhappy in Melrose.

Dr Johanna Kissling was often away on research trips and the hotel lost money, leaving both living much less comfortably than they had in Germany.

Johanna Kissling is noted for her photographic work in Scotland and noted as making "many oversea trips in her life" in Michael Russell's book about her son, A Different Country: The Photographs of Werner Kissling.

Johanna Kissling traveled as a tourist to St Kilda and Lewis in 1905.

Johanna Kissling's photographs are considered alongside the approaches of Margaret Fay Shaw, Jenny Gilbertson and Alasdair Alpin Macgregor, who was one of the official photographers for The Times.