Alexander Wüst (photographer)
Alexander Wüst (born October 31, 1858 in Abertham , † after 1937) was a German photographer who achieved lasting importance primarily through his landscape photos of the Upper Bohemian Ore Mountains in the area around Abertham and Sankt Joachimsthal .
Life
He was born in 1858 as the legitimate son of the house owner Johann Wüst and Pauline born. Kraus was born in Abertham No. 12 and baptized a Catholic. For the conditions at the time in the Upper Ore Mountains region, he took up an apprenticeship as a photographer after attending primary school and opened his own studio in his hometown. There he mainly took photos of people (portraits, chest and hoof pictures, full and group photos) in the studio, which he stuck on hard cardboard and sold. Like many of his professional colleagues, he kept the photo plates made for reorders for a certain period of time.
On January 31, 1892, Pastor Johann Endt married Albertine Anna Kraus, daughter of the late lace dealer Adalbert Kraus, in the parish church of Abertham. Since his bride was related to him, the couple had to obtain several dispensations from Abertham, Prague and St. Joachimsthal before they married.
With the blossoming of photo postcards, even before the First World War, he increasingly switched to taking landscape photos of Abertham and the surrounding area and selling them as hand prints with postcard imprints. In doing so, he documented the appearance of excursion destinations such as the Pleßberg , Modesgrund and Salmthal for this region . His photographs are usually the earliest photographs of these places known today and are therefore often collected. At the beginning of the 1920s Rupert Fuchs from Neuhammer joined the company as a photographer of the Upper Bohemian Ore Mountains.
In 1937, shortly before his 80th birthday, he self-published 25 cheerful stories from Abertham , which was reprinted in Czech in 2007.
Today there is the Alexander-Wüst-Lehrpfad in Abertham, which has 17 stations a. a. leads up to the Pleßberg and is bilingual in history, geology and mining in Abertham and the surrounding area.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wüst, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Abertham |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1937 |