Albert Fernique

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The French photographer and engineer Albert Fernique (1841–1898) with his wife and two children, around 1875

Albert Fernique (born June 30, 1841 in Paris , † September 19, 1898 ibid) was a French photographer, pioneer of photographic technology and engineer.

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Albert Fernique was born on June 30, 1841 in Paris in what was then the third district (arrondissement) as the son of Clément Charles André Fernique and Marie Joséphine Delanneau.

He was the younger brother of the Franciscan abbot and photographer Etienne-Victor Fernique (born on February 26, 1836 in Paris, died on January 18, 1915 there), who became known for stereoscopic photographs from a pilgrimage to Palestine in 1878 .

Albert Fernique married on October 24, 1865 in Saint-Quentin in the Aisne department .

His son Louis Fernique first joined Albert Fernique's photo salon as his business partner in 1888 and then took it over in 1894, while his father was still alive.

Life path

Albert Fernique studied at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures (central art and trade school) in Paris, which he graduated in 1862. He married on October 24, 1865 in Saint-Quentin in the Aisne department . In 1869 Fernique was professor and head of the graphic arts faculty at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in Paris. During the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871 Fernique worked with René Prudent Patrice Dagron on the microfilming of documents; the microfiches should be transported by carrier pigeon. The miniaturized photographic reproduction of the documents was intended to serve both military and civil intelligence.

In 1872 Fernique founded and managed the “Etablissement de Reproductions Industrielles et de Photogravure” in Paris. Fernique was officially listed as a professional photographer in the 1873 edition of the “Annuaire du Commerce de Paris” (for example: Paris Trade Yearbook), with the mention that he mainly photographed architectural and engineering works (“Application de la photographie à l ' art de l'ingénieur et de l'architecte ”, for example:“ Application of photography to the arts of the engineer and the architect ”). His studio was at 31 rue de Fleurus in Paris. A son of Albert Fernique first joined Fernique's photo salon as his business partner in 1888 and then took it over at the same address in 1894, while Albert Fernique was still alive.

In 1875 Fernique published his album entitled "École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures" with photos of this college. His photograph of the lecture hall of the École centrale de Paris (around 1875) was counted among the 180 masterpieces of the Department of Prints and Photography of the French National Library (Bibliothèque nationale de France).

In 1879 Albert Fernique became a member of the French Society for Photography (Société française de Photographie) . He took part in the world exhibitions in Paris in 1878 , Antwerp in 1885 and Paris in 1889 .

At the world exhibition in Paris in 1878, the head of the Statue of Liberty by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi was shown, which was later installed on Bedloe's Island in the port of New York and unveiled there in 1886. The series of photos published in 1883, taken by Albert Fernique in the workshop where Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty was built, is one of his most famous works.

Fernique is credited with many photographs of plastic works by artists of his time, including photographs of the sculptures by the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux . Fernique's interior architecture views also became known, in which his recording technique proved to be particularly suitable for exploiting the available ambient light.

He also dealt with photomechanical reproduction processes such as photolithography and photogravure and, in collaboration with René Dagron, with the development of microphotography (around 1870).

In 1888 Albert Fernique photographed the construction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, which was built from 1887 to 1889 .

Albert Fernique died in Paris on September 19, 1898, at the age of only 57.

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  1. ↑ according to his marriage certificate of October 24, 1865, issued in Saint-Quentin in the Aisne department; online on the department archive website at http://www.archives.aisne.fr/registres-d-etat-civil-36774.html , vue 267, acte 161.
  2. ^ Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP), Victor Fernique Fund, bibliotheque-numerique.icp.fr
  3. ^ Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP), Fonds Victor Fernique, Documents, bibliotheque-numerique.icp .
  4. ^ Marriage certificate dated October 24, 1865, issued in Saint-Quentin in the Aisne department; online on the website of the department archive at http://www.archives.aisne.fr/registres-d-etat-civil-36774.html , there: vue 267, acte 161.
  5. ^ KE Graf zu Leiningen-Westerburg, "Ex libris Louis Fernique", in: Wolfgang Mecklenburg, Ex libris book art and applied graphics, journal for book markings, librarianship and scholarly history, organ of the Ex-libris Association in Berlin, Volume XVI., No. . 3, Berlin 1906, Verlag von CA Starke, p. 138, https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_XZwaAAAAYAAJ/page/n411/mode/2up/
  6. ↑ Getty.edu, Fernique, Albert (French photographer, 1841–1898), http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500007660
  7. ^ Marriage certificate dated October 24, 1865, issued in Saint-Quentin in the Aisne department; online on the website of the department archive at http://www.archives.aisne.fr/registres-d-etat-civil-36774.html , there: vue 267, acte 161.
  8. ↑ Getty.edu, Union List of Artists' Names (ULAN) online, "Fernique, Albert (French photographer, 1841-1898)", http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation= & subjectid = 500007660
  9. ↑ Getty.edu, Union List of Artitst 'Names (ULAN) online, "Fernique, Albert (French photographer, 1841-1898)", http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation= & subjectid = 500007660
  10. ↑ Des grands chantiers… here: photographie, dessin, outils de l'architecte et de l'ingénieur around de 1900 , Bibliothèque administrative de la Ville de Paris, Musée-Galerie de la Seita, 1988, p. 26th
  11. ↑ Getty.edu, Union List of Artitst 'Names (ULAN) online, "Fernique, Albert (French photographer, 1841-1898)", http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation= & subjectid = 500007660
  12. ^ Weston J. Naef / Bernard Marbot, Regards sur la photographie en France au XIXe siècle: 180 chefs-d'oeuvre du Département des estampes et de la photographie , Bibliothèque nationale (France). Cabinet des estampes .; Musée du Petit Palais (Paris, France); Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), Paris: Berger-Levrault, 1980, p. 65, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84363350/f25.item
  13. ↑ Albert Fernique, Album de la construction de la Statue de la Liberté , Paris, November 1883, https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-0a2f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99/book?parent=0c73c6d0-c62b- 012f-f421-58d385a7bc34 # page / 3 / mode / 2up
  14. ↑ Reproductions of oeuvres conservées dans l'atelier Carpeaux, 26 boulevard Exelmans 1877 .
  15. ↑ Albert Fernique, Un voyage en ballon pendant le siège de Paris, novembre 1870 , Imprimerie J. Moureau (Saint-Quentin), 1871 p. 1-2, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6471589w.texteImage
  16. ^ The J. Paul Getty Museum, Albert Fernique, http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1373/albert-fernique-french-1841-1898/
  17. ↑ Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Albert Fernique Collection, http://data.bnf.fr/14057787/albert_fernique/

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SURNAME Fernique, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French photographer, photo technology pioneer and engineer
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1898
Place of death Paris