Hermann Krone

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Hermann Krone, self-portrait with parts of his equipment, 1858

Hermann Krone (born September 14, 1827 in Breslau ; † September 17, 1916 in Laubegast ) was a German photographer , scientist , university professor and publicist . He founded the Historical Teaching Museum for Photography in Dresden and is considered one of the best known and best photographers of the 19th century.

Life

Krone, born the son of a lithographer and grandson of a book printer , began studying natural sciences at the University of Breslau in 1843 after attending the Elisabeth Gymnasium in Breslau . In the first semester he started with photographic experiments and building a camera .

Memorial plaque for Hermann Krone in the bastion

From 1849 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy and was a student of Ludwig Richter for a short time . In 1851 he opened a photo studio in Leipzig . However, since he was a foreigner there as a Prussian citizen , he was expelled after a few months and had to hand over the studio to the photographer Friedericke Pommer. Krone then moved to Dresden, obtained Dresden citizenship (and with it Saxon citizenship) and again opened a photo studio and a private photographic school here in 1853. His series of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains , recorded in 1853, marked the beginning of landscape photography in Saxony .

In addition to his epochal photographic achievements, Hermann Krone is considered to be the founder of scientific cave research in Saxony, he carried out genetic studies and anthropospelaeological work. In 1856, in Saxon Switzerland, he made one of the world's earliest cave photographs. In the scientific association ISIS he reported on "caves, gates and cave formations in the Saxon-Bohemian Elbe Valley Mountains", presented sinter from sandstone caves and made medieval finds in the later named Kronehöhle (Saxon cave register no. SH-57). With a series of examples, he explained his thoughts on a type of condensation corrosion in shaded niche areas.

Hermann Krone worked with the early methods of the daguerreotype and calotype and later with industrially manufactured photographic materials. From 1870 to 1907 he held lectures and internships on photography at the Dresden Polytechnic . In 1895 he was appointed professor . For teaching purposes, he put on a large collection of photographs of the most diverse processes, which have a high cultural and historical value. In 1907 he handed this collection over to the Scientific and Photographic Institute of the Technical University of Dresden, today's Institute for Applied Photophysics at the TU Dresden .

Together with his son Johannes Krone, he took part as a photographer in 1874 on a German expedition to the Auckland Islands , which served to observe the transit of Venus on December 9, 1874. He wrote a report about this expedition entitled Father and Son on a World Tour .

Hermann Krone died in Laubegast near Dresden in 1916. His grave in the Trinity cemetery has not been preserved.

A new building on the grounds of the Technical University of Dresden has been named Hermann-Krone-Bau since 2017 . The building is the seat of the Institute for Applied Photophysics and the Hermann Krone Collection.

Quote

"In the light. Through the light. To the light. "

- Hermann Krone

Works

Fonts

  • The original photographic methods which remain of practical value for all time. Reprint: Fotokinoverlag, Leipzig 1985
  • Original photographic methods. 1907. Reprint: Fotokinoverlag, Leipzig 1985
  • First photographic landscape tour of Saxon Switzerland. Reprint: Fotokinoverlag, Leipzig 1997
  • Historical teaching museum for photography. Experiment, art, mass medium. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1998, ISBN 90-5705-086-2
  • Father and son on a world tour. 1874, 1875 to observe the passage of Venus. The Robinsonade in the Auckland Islands. Australia. Hendel, Halle on the Saale, 1901

Photographs

Exhibitions

  • 1998: In the light through light to light. Hermann Krone, photographer (1827–1916) , Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden at the TU Dresden.

Awards

  • Honorable recognition on the occasion of the exhibition in Brussels in 1856
  • Medal, Paris 1870
  • A merit medal for samples of photographic experiments on the occasion of the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873 ( Department of Photography)

Web links

Commons : Hermann Krone  - Collection of Images

literature

  • Martina Buder (ed.): With Hermann Krone in Saxon Switzerland. Verlag der Kunst , Dresden 2020, ISBN 978-3-86530-229-8
  • Walther Fischer:  Krone, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 79 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Heinrich Götz: Hermann Krone. For the hundredth birthday. In: Hans Seger, Erwin Hintze (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the Silesian Museum for Applied Arts and Antiquities. Self-published by the Schlesisches Altertumsverein, represented by Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau 1928, Volume 9, pp. 145–150 and panels X – XII. (= Silesia's prehistoric times in pictures and writing. New series)
  • Fritz Hansen : To the crown celebration , in: Photographische Chronik , 14th year, 1907, pp. 483–484
  • Wolfgang Hesse, Timm Starl: photography and equipment. The photo pioneer Hermann Krone. Jonas, Marburg 1998, ISBN 3-89445-232-3
  • Andreas Krase: The tableau as a universal pattern of order. Hermann Krone and his historical teaching museum for photography. In: Wolfgang Hesse / Holger Starke (eds.): Those standing in the light. Photographic portraits of Dresden citizens of the 19th century , [Kromsdorf]: Jonas [2019] ISBN 9783894455637 , pp. 358–366.
  • Hans-Ulrich Lehmann: Hermann Krone - the photographs: catalog raisonné. Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-06734-9
  • Maria Noth: In light through light to light. Hermann Krone, photographer (1827-1916). Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, catalog, Dresden 1998

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to the Hermann Krone collection at the IAPP of the TU Dresden on September 27 of the same year
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Baier: Source representations for the history of photography. 2nd edition, Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-921375-60-6 , p. 496 ff.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Baier: Source representations for the history of photography. 2nd edition, Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-921375-60-6 , p. 500.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Baier: Source representations for the history of photography. 2nd edition, Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-921375-60-6 , p. 497.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Baier: Source representations for the history of photography. 2nd edition, Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-921375-60-6 , p. 501.
  6. ^ Hermann-Krone-Bau in the campus navigator of the TU Dresden
  7. ^ Wilhelm Horn: Photographisches Journal , 7th volume, p. 33 f.
  8. ↑ Bulletin de la Société Francaise de Photographie , Tome Dix-Septieme, (17th vol.), 1871, PAris, Gauthier-Villars, 1871, p. 10
  9. ↑ E. Hornig (Ed.): Photographische Correspondenz , 10th year, Vienna, 1873, pp. 85 ff. ( Online )


personal data
SURNAME Krone, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer, scientist, university professor and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1916
Place of death Leaf guest near Dresden