Émile Reutlinger

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Émile Reutlinger (around 1860)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Reutlinger, Paris 1888

Émile Reutlinger , also Émile Auguste Reutlinger (actually Emil August Reutlinger , born August 27, 1825 in Karlsruhe , † August 9, 1907 in Baden-Baden ) was a German - French photographer. He was a younger brother of Carl Reutlinger and the father of Léopold-Émile Reutlinger .

Life

Emil August Reutlinger was born in Karlsruhe into a family of German Jews. In 1848 he first emigrated to the USA , possibly to Memphis . In 1860 he married in the Peruvian capital Lima , around four months after the birth of their son Léopold, whose mother Amelia Ellen Horn, a German Protestant . The couple had four children in total, but two of them died in infancy. It is known that Reutlinger owned a number of properties in Callao , which, however, were destroyed in a severe earthquake (probably in 1868). It is not certain what he did for a living there; in some documents he is referred to as a painter . In 1870 Emil Reutlinger returned to Europe with his family, first to Stuttgart and then to Paris , where another daughter, Juanita, was born in 1876. After 1870 Emil began to work with his brother Carl, who ran a renowned photo studio in Paris. At first he became its business partner. Apparently he learned photography there; at this time he began to call himself Émile . In 1880 Charles transferred his company, Ch. Reutlinger, to him .

Reutlinger was awarded a silver medal at an exhibition by the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs . In 1888, Ch. Reutlinger in Minneapolis received a diploma and a medal from the Photographer's Association of America for a series of photos. In his style, Émile Reutlinger moved further and further away from the rather simple and realistic photographs of his brother. Between 1882 and 1889 he gave the Bibliothèque nationale de France several albums with photographs of dancers whose upper bodies are bared.

From 1880 Émile Reutlinger initially only worked with his employees. But he soon urged his son Léopold-Émile (1863–1937) to come to him in Paris. This happened in 1883. After working with the son for ten years, the father transferred the studio to him in 1893.

After his son Léopold joins the company, it is not always possible to distinguish which of the two - father or son - made the pictures. Due to family disputes, the son also worked for other studios from time to time.

The back of a Carte de Visite by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in the possession of the New York Public Library not only indicates that there was an elevator for customers at Boulevard Montmartre 21 . It demonstrates in particular that dealerships were

It is still unclear whether these business connections originated earlier under Charles Reutlinger (more likely) or only under the management of Émile.

There are three Visite cards and a postcard from Émile and Amélia Ellen Horn-Reutlinger (also: Amélia Ellen Reutlinger ).

In the early 1890s, Émile Reutlinger moved with his wife to Baden-Baden , where he died in 1907. His wife, daughter Juanita and granddaughter Juana Binz are buried in the family grave there. Juana Binz ran a photo studio in Mannheim until her death in 1970 , which still exists today (2018).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bibliothèque nationale de France
  2. ↑ a b c d Jean-Pierre Bourgeron: Les Reutlinger. Photographes à Paris 1850–1937 . Grove art: Paris 1979, ISBN 2-903097-02-X , p. 23.
  3. ↑ Reutlinger, Charles (1816-1880?) . Bibliothèque nationale de France
  4. ^ VIAF
  5. ↑ Back of Tchaikovsky's Carte de Visite
  6. ↑ Fotoatelier Binz (accessed 2018-09-30).

literature

  • Jean-Pierre Bourgeron: Les Reutlinger. Photographes à Paris 1850−1937 , Grove art: Paris 1979, ISBN 2-903097-02-X .

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personal data
SURNAME Reutlinger, Émile
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reutlinger, Émile Auguste; Reutlinger, Emil August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1907
Place of death Baden-Baden