Albert Voisard

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Albert Voisard (born January 9, 1862 in Augsburg ; † in the 20th century) was a French-born photographer who specialized in children's photography in Vienna .

Life

Albert Voisard was a son of Joseph Voisard who moved with his wife from Cunelières to Augsburg in 1846 , where he joined the management of the Schöppler & Hartmann calico printing company as director of engraving . The family always retained their right of home in Cunelières.

Albert Voisard probably trained as a photographer in Munich . In May 1885 he moved to Neu-Ulm , where he was soon followed by his older siblings Karl (* 1859) and Maria Karolina (* 1857). The Voisard brothers opened a photo studio at Augsburger Strasse 10, and their sister ran the household for them. At the end of July 1885, the three siblings moved back to Augsburg, where they opened the Gebr. Karl & Albert Voisard photography business on September 11, 1885 on the corner of Grottenau and Fuggerstrasse. At the end of August 1891 the Voisard brothers moved to Munich. The photographers Erdmann Spalke and Wilhelm Kluge took over the Augsburg studio on August 5, 1891.

Apparently, in Munich, where Albert Voisard was the owner of the Maximilian studio at Kanalstrasse 47, according to the DNB entry, the Voisard brothers parted ways. Albert Voisard can be traced back to Vienna in 1894 , where he apparently operated a photo studio alone at Mariahilfer Strasse 89 “in the garden”. Voisard advertised on some of his photo boxes that he was Vienna's first child photographer, but also portrayed adults, including Viktor Adler, who died in 1918, and Karl Lueger on November 21, 1909 . A number of Voisard's recordings were also sold as postcards or greeting cards. These were often photo montages with pictures of babies or toddlers.

In 1905 he signed a protest rally against the formation of a cooperative in Vienna and the inclusion of photography in the craft trades . Voisard was mentioned in the pharmaceutical press in 1913 as "the photographer known far beyond the borders of the monarchy", after which his traces became sparse. A picture of a child that was offered for sale on Ebay is allegedly dated to 1914. Voisard's photographs, which can be found online, all seem to have been taken in the second decade of the 20th century at the latest; the photographer can still be found in the Vienna address book from 1938 and, according to some sources, can be traced back to 1941.

Web links

Commons : Albert Voisard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Cramer-Fürtig and Franz Häußler, Photography in Augsburg, 1839 to 1900 , Wißner-Verlag 2004, ISBN 978-3896394323 , p. 139 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  2. ↑ See also the photographer's lexicon on www.fotorevers.eu
  3. ↑ Photo cardboard has also come down to us from the Neu-Ulm and Augsburg times on which only “A. Voisard ”or“ Alb. Voisard ”can be read, but from the time in Vienna there does not seem to be any that start with“ Gebr. Voisard ”or similar.
  4. ↑ Portrait of Viktor Adler at www.bildarchivaustria.at
  5. ^ Portrait of Karl Lueger at www.kulturpool.at
  6. ↑ Photographische Korrespondenz 536, 1905, pp. 202–218
  7. ^ Pharmaceutical Press 18, 1913, p. 430
  8. ↑ Selling offer for a photograph of a little girl on a rocking horse on www.ebay.de
  9. ↑ Entry in the address book at www.findbuch.at
  10. ↑ z. B. Lexicon of Photographers on www.fotorevers.eu
personal data
SURNAME Voisard, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-born photographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH 20th century