Alexander Möhlen
Alexander Möhlen († 1930 ) was a German court - Photographer in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Life
After the Photographische Verein zu Hannover met on June 16, 1902 in an extraordinary meeting with Dr. Lindström was presented by the Hanover Chamber of Crafts "as a functioning professional representation and [...] was also accepted as such", Alexander Möhlen became chairman of the first general meeting of professional photographers working in and around Hanover on January 26, 1903 in the Rheinischer Hof elected by the association. Möhlen thus played an important role in founding the first photographers' guild in the Hanover area.
For the inauguration of the New Town Hall in Hanover, court photographer Möhlen donated “free portrait photos of the members of the municipal colleges presented in the commemorative publication”.
Well-known studios
In the course of 1907 the Hildesheim photographer Carl Kesselhuth sold his studio to Alexander Möhlen, who has since operated the studio in Hildesheim as a branch. Möhlen ran studios in
- Hanover , at Georgsplatz , "Entrance Landschaftsstrasse 4"
- in Hildesheim at Kaiserstraße 44
Famous works
- around 1911: Photo of Elisabeth Gottschalk as a baby in the playpen (in Hanover); Owners of the photo shop Alexander Möhlen and O. Zurkirchen
- around 1912: Portrait of the Hungarian soprano Rosa von Abranyi-Varnay, which she handwritten in February 1912 by her “dear Elisabeth Noltemeyer for constant memory”.
- Photographs of a still unidentified actor as Tristan, Siegfried, Tannhäuser, Stolzing and Canio
Archival material
Archival material by and about Alexander Möhlen can be found, for example
- in the city archive of Hanover with reference to the portrait photos of the members of the municipal colleges made by Möhlen.
Web links
- Adam An-tAthair-Síoraí: Alexander Möhlen on the De Animorum Immortalitate page , sub- pages Hanover
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nachrichtenblatt für das Photographenhandwerk , Volume 38, p. 177
- ↑ a b Danuta Thiel-Melerski: Alexander Möhlen on fotorevers.eu , your lexicon of photographers
- ^ Ludwig Hoerner : Photography and Photographers in Hanover and Hildesheim. Festschrift for the 150th birthday of photography. Published by the Hanover and Hildesheim photographers' guilds, produced by the Bad Pyrmont vocational support organization for typesetting, repro photography, printing forme production, flat printing and bookbinding as part of retraining, 1989, p. 30
- ↑ a b Petra Spona: "The equipment of a town hall is an area in which the public spirit of the citizenry can be active" / The donation policy for the decoration of the new town hall. In Cornelia Regin (ed.): Splendor and Power. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of the New Town Hall in Hanover. (Hanoverian studies. Series of publications by the Hanover City Archives , Vol. 14). Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2013, ISBN 978-3-7752-4964-5 , pp. 227–248; here: p. 242
- ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: Photography and Photographers in Hanover and Hildesheim ... , p. 78
- ↑ a b c Hendrik Hamel: ROSA v. ABRÁNYI VARNAY PORTRAIT PHOTO HUNGARIAN SOPRANO on ebay
- ^ Center for Jewish History: Portrait of Liesel (Elizabeth) Gottschalk as a baby; Hannover, Germany Photographs
- ↑ Unidentified Isolden / Not identified Isoldes / Isoldes nicht identificadas ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on isoldes-liebestod.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Möhlen, Alexander |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Möhlen, Alex. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur and photographer in Hanover and Hildesheim |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1930 |