Alfred Noack

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Gravestone with Noack's portrait

Alfred Noack (also Alfredo ) (born May 25, 1833 in Dresden , † 1895 in Genoa ) was a German- Italian photographer of Saxon origin.

Noack first studied xylography with Hugo Bürkner at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden. He is also said to have been a student of Hermann Krone . In November 1856 Noack moved to Rome and stayed there for four years. On site he was a member of the German Artists' Association , after which he went to Genoa and opened a studio there. With his vedute-based photographs of the city and Liguria, which were very popular with tourists in the 1860s, he is considered the “inventor” of the Italian Riviera .

From 1865 to 1871 he was a member of the Freemason Lodge Trionfo Ligure .

From the 1880s onwards, however, he used photographic processes that allowed him to capture the public way of life in Genoa. After his death, his archive of negatives was taken over by Carlo Paganini , whose heiress bequeathed around 4,000 negatives to the city of Genoa until 1926.

  • From the series Vedute dell'Alta Italia - Genoa train station taken from the terrace of Villa Rosazza, an aloe plant in the foreground

  • From the series Costumi della Liguria - a farmer with a cow

  • The Piazza Caricamento in Genoa

  • Pescatori di Bordighera . Studio artistico - Five fishermen with boats

  • Colored panorama of Genoa

literature

  • Giuseppe Marcenaro: Alfredo Noack, "inventore" della Riviera , Genoa 1989, Sagep, ISBN 88-7058-315-5

Web links

Commons : Alfred Noack  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Silvia Paoli: Alfredo Noack , in: John Hannavy (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Photography, Vol. 2, New York et al.: Routledge 2005, pp. 1008-1009. ISBN 978-0-415-97235-2
  2. ^ Giuseppe Marcenaro: Alphonse Bernoud et les photographes ambulants sur la côte ligure: 1839–1870 . In: Le Monde alpin et rhodanien , No. 2-4 (1995), pp. 161-174, p. 174.
  3. ^ Photo museum in the Münchner Stadtmuseum: a selection of 150 photographs from the collection, Munich 1991, p. 188. ISBN 978-3-89466-021-5
personal data
SURNAME Noack, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Noack, Alfredo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian photographer of Saxon origin
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 1895
Place of death Genoa