Adele Mother of Pearl
Adele Perlmutter , married. Heilpern (born August 9, 1845 in Solochiv ; † February 8, 1941 in Vienna ), was an Austrian photographer . She was the namesake of the Vienna photo studio Adèle .
Life
The Perlmutter family came from Galicia and were originally Jewish, but Adele Perlmutter gave up the Jewish faith in 1888 and converted to Protestantism in 1910 . Her husband Eugen Heilpern was originally Jewish and was baptized in 1910.
Adele Perlmutter came to Vienna with her parents and at least three siblings around 1860, where her father set up a photo studio in 1862. For the years up to 1878, Adolph Lehmann 's general housing indicator lists only Adele Perlmutter under “Photographers” named Perlmutter; only then do the brothers Max and Wilhelm appear. Over the years, the entries on Adele Perlmutter become more extensive: she has been an imperial court photographer since 1868, and had already won a silver medal at the World Exhibition in Paris the year before . A report on this exhibition praised “the large number of extremely clean portraits of all formats” that she showed there. According to another report from the world exhibition, Perlmutter has "made significant progress since the Berlin exhibition" and "heeded the hints given at the time".
In addition, she received a medal for good taste in Vienna in 1873, which was also listed in the business directory, and from 1879 on, in addition to the previous awards, there was also the designation “k. brasil. Court photographer ”. Since 1864 a member of the Vienna Photography Society, she submitted pictures for a planned exhibition in London in 1871 , but they were rejected. She then received an extension of the deadline to apply again.
Adele Perlmutter initially had her studio at Praterstrasse 18. From 1874 Lehmann also recorded the address Graben 19, where the Adèle studio was to be located until the end. From 1876, Lehmann's address was Graben 19 and Asperngasse 2, while the studio in Praterstrasse had apparently been given up. The entry from 1879 also mentions another location: In the “former Thiergarten” in the Prater , “Photographie hippique” was now also operated, apparently under the aegis of Max Perlmutter, who is listed as the head of the studio in Asperngasse from this year onwards Wilhelm Perlmutter was now run as the head of the Atelier am Graben. However, the responsibility for the horse portraits may soon have changed: Henry Baden Pritchard , who presented the Atelier Adèle in his work Studios of Europe , clearly refers to the location on the ditch in his descriptions and cites the owner, who has declared, experiments He only made gelatine in the Prater for horse photography. According to Pritchard, the horse picture business was so extensive and profitable that Perlmutter was “thinking seriously of invading England”. The branch in the Prater was apparently soon given up and was perhaps even more short-lived than the branch in Ischl , which existed in the 1870s and 1880s.
The Lehmann volume from 1882 has its own entry for the last time under the name “Perlmutter Adele”; In contrast to the previous volumes, however, this name entry only contains the reference “see Adèle”. This is also the last volume in which "Adèle" is referred to as a photographer, the following volumes use the male form. It is therefore possible that Adele Perlmutter was no longer active as a photographer at the time, or at least had limited her work. This is obvious in so far as she had started a family and had three small children to look after: in 1871 she had married Eugen Heilpern. Their son Johann was born on July 1, 1872, followed by their daughter Melanie Elinor on December 17, 1874 and their son Willy on October 27, 1881.
The company continued to operate under Adele Perlmutter's French first name. The location in Asperngasse was given up around 1885 and instead opened a branch at Wallfischgasse 9 and 11, respectively. In the following years, the brothers Wilhelm and Max seem to have shared the two studios as before; a change occurred around 1894 when Wilhelm Perlmutter gave up his surname and henceforth called himself Förster and Max Perlmutter set up a photo zincographic art institute in addition to his work in Wallfischgasse in Linken Bahngasse 5. Later, Max Perlmutter apparently fully concentrated on his career in this art establishment or as a sworn appraiser and imperial council, so that the branch in Wallfischgasse was given up. After Wilhelm Förster's death, the Adèle photo studio was continued by his son Ernst until he emigrated to Czechoslovakia in 1938. A few years later he was deported and died in a concentration camp.
In contrast to her nephew, the elderly photographer apparently stayed in Vienna until her death in 1941. By this time she had long since been widowed: Her husband, Eugen Heilpern, a manufacturer, had died in 1921 at the age of 79. None of their three children may have survived the Third Reich . It is known about Melanie Elinor Heilpern that she married Ludwig Ferdinand Graf and with him had the daughters Nony (married Klimburg) and Thea; Johann and Willy Heilpern both studied and earned their doctorates and then worked for the Heilpern & Haas company or had shares in it. Johann Heilpern died in 1942 in a concentration camp in Riga , Willy Heilpern on May 11, 1942 in the Maly Trostinez extermination camp . In 1941 Willy Heilpern was listed for the last time in the Apartment Anzeiger, namely at the family's residence at Reisnerstrasse 26. His brother had already disappeared from the address directory earlier, the mother was apparently no longer listed there because she was not a head of the household. A Melanie Graf appeared for the last time in the volume for 1940, but with a different address than Reisnerstrasse, where all family members were actually registered.
Adèle photographic studio
honors and awards
- 1865: Medal of Merit of the International Photographic Exhibition in Berlin 1865, awarded by the Photographischer Verein zu Berlin
- 1867: Silver medal from the Exposition Universelle de Paris 1867 (World's Fair) with the profile of Emperor Napoléon III.
- 1867: Honorary award of the Linz Volksfest, silver medal (medalist Carl Radnitzky) with the profile of Austria
- 1868: kuk court photographer
- 1868: Medal of the 2nd exhibition of photographic works in 1868, awarded by the Photographischer Verein zu Hamburg
- 1873: Medal of Merit at the World Exhibition of 1873 in Vienna (medalist Josef Tautenhayn ) with the laureled head of Emperor Franz Josef I in profile to the right
- 1874: Prince Albert Medal, Annual International Exhibition of all Fine Arts Industries and Inventions London, Albert Edward Prince of Wales President (medalists G. Morgan and Boehm)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roman Sandgruber: Dreamtime for Millionaires. Styriabooks, 2013, ISBN 978-3-990-40184-2 , Volume 1 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
- ^ Braumüller: Report on the world exhibition in Paris in 1867. Braumüller, 1868, p. 321 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ^ W. Braumüller: Report on the World Exhibition in Paris in 1867. Ed. By Franz Xaver Neumann. W. Braumüller, 1869, p. 307 ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ↑ Preview of the book: Photographische Mitteilungen. 1868, p. 147 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
- ^ US Government Printing Office: United States Congressional Serial Set. US Government Printing Office, 1876, p. 20 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
- ↑ a b Adolph Lehmann's general housing indicator 1879, p. 1200 ( digitized version )
- ↑ A. Moll: Photographic Notes. A. Moll, 1871, p. 61 ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ^ Henry Baden Pritchard, The Atelier Adèle in Vienna in The Photographic Studios of Europe , London 1882, p. 250 ff., Here p. 252 ( digitized version )
- ↑ The dating in David S. Shields: Still. University of Chicago Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-226-01343-5 , p. 245 ( limited preview in Google book search) contradicts the address information on the cardboard of dated recordings; "Adèle" was not just a court photographer since 1890.
- ↑ Adolf Lehmann's general housing indicator 1882, p. 1278 ( digitized version )
- ↑ In most cases, Adele Perlmutter is expected to retire around 1890, cf. for example Adele Wien Hof-Atelier on www.klosterarchiv.ch .
- ↑ Adolf Lehmann's general housing indicator 1895, p. 584 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Eugen Heilpern's obituary from the Neue Freie Presse on www.anno.onb.ac.at
- ↑ Heilpern & Haas on [1]
- ↑ Wolfgang Scheffler, Diana Schulle, Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum, Memorial House of the Wannsee Conference: Book of Remembrance: The German, Austrian and Czechoslovakian Jews deported to the Baltic States . Ed .: Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge eV, Riga Committee of German Cities. Walter de Gruyter, 2003, ISBN 978-3-11-095624-5 .
- ↑ Willy Heilpern on yadvashem.org
- ↑ Adolph Lehmann's general housing indicator 1941, p. 432 ( digitized version )
- ↑ This building of Heinz Gerl was probably inhabited since its completion by the family Heilpern. See the apartment gazette from 1886, p. 447 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Adolph Lehmann's general housing indicator 1940, p. 350 ( digitized version )
- ^ Paris exhibition in Pappenheim's Oesterreichisches Handels-Journal of July 5, 1867, p. 26
- ↑ Tages-Post No. 217, Linz September 20, 1867
- ↑ Award , in: Photographische Correspondenz , 1868, p. 239
- ^ Silver Medal , in: Photographische Correspondenz , 1868, p. 277
- ^ Medal for good taste , in: Photographische Correspondenz 1873, p. 83
- ↑ Illustration of the Prince Albert Edward Medal ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 1874, in the online Atlas Numismatics
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mother of pearl, Adele |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mother-of-pearl, Adèle; Heilpern, Adele |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zolochiv |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1941 |
| Place of death | Vienna |