Anna Feilner

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Anna Geneta Helene Margarete Feilner (born October 8, 1863 in Elsfleth , † April 17, 1929 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ) was a photographer in Oldenburg.

biography

Anna Geneta Helene Margarete Feilner learned the photographic trade from her uncle Hans Jürgen Feilner, who opened his photo studio in Oldenburg in 1874. Her great uncle Johann Eberhard Feilner , born in Cologne in 1802, is still considered one of the first and most famous daguerreotypists in Germany. His son, Jean Baptiste Feilner , almost better known than his father, set up a studio in Oldenburg in 1882 and was listed in the address books as a court photographer from 1887. Anna Feilner came from a well-known family of photographers.

After her training, she was the only woman in Oldenburg at the turn of the century who ran her own photo studio, so successfully that she was able to open a branch in Brake (Unterweser) for a short time in 1897 .

Advertisement for the opening of their new shop (Oldenburger Anzeiger, 1885)

Her photographs have received awards at numerous exhibitions. She was awarded a prize by the German Photographers Association in Dresden in 1903 and in 1904 she received a Silver Medal in Kassel for her excellent work. In the “German Photographers Calendar 1905”, one of her photographs adorned the memorial sheet. In 1906 the Third German Applied Arts Exhibition in Dresden took place, where it was represented in the Photographic Salon and received an honorary diploma. She had great success in 1905 at the Northwest German Art and Industry Exhibition in Oldenburg. Here she was the only photographer to have her own pavilion and the quality of her photos was impressive. Her involvement at the state exhibition had a very positive effect on her, as it earned her not only a gold medal but also the title of court photographer.

Anna Feilner's studio on Schloßplatz in Oldenburg

Anna Feilner also received international recognition. In 1907, two photographs of her were published in the article "The Autochrome Plate - Some First Experiences" in the American magazine "The Camera", which described the first attempts at color photography. The Photographic Cooperative in America awarded her an honorary diploma and her photographs were shown at the exhibition of German photographers at the “Tenth Convention of the Photographers Association in New England” in Boston that same year.

In 1909 Anna Feilner was represented at the International Photographic Exhibition (Ipha) in Dresden with three photographs (portrait of a woman, portrait of a child, Grand Duke of Oldenburg) and received an award for the photo of the Grand Duke. The child portrait shown at Ipha was published in 1910 in the article "The gum-platinum process" in the magazine "American Photography". With her participation in the Oldenburg State Exhibition in 1905, Anna Feilner had laid the foundation for a small fortune and in 1908 was able to acquire a house near the Oldenburg Castle on Inner Damm 12, today Schlossplatz 23. There she celebrated her 25th professional anniversary in October 1910. Anna Feilner worked until 1919, then she handed the studio over to Hans Bourquin, who continued to run it under her name until 1924.

The grave site has been preserved at the Oldenburg Gertrudenfriedhof to this day. For several years it has been part of the cemetery tours of the Center for Women's History Oldenburg (ZFG). It is also described in the cemetery guide. During the Long Night of the Churches in 2008, a work of art was created by the Oldenburg sculptor Doris Reske. This work of art, a stele, now adorns the grave site.

Works

Memory of the state industrial and trade exhibition, the Northwest German Art Exhibition and the Kunstgewerbl exhibition. Antiquities Oldenburg 1905 . Allmers, Varel 1905, urn : nbn: de: gbv: 45: 1-5857 (mostly based on photos by Anna Feilner, exhibition stands by G. Kahlmeyer).

literature

  • Heike Wiese, Elke Behrens, Petra Mende: The lady under the black cloth - About the photographer Anna Feilner . In: Udo Elerd (Hrsg.): The start of Oldenburg in the modern age (=  publications of the Oldenburg City Museum . Volume 48 ). Oldenburg 2005, ISBN 3-89995-205-7 , pp. 109-119 .
  • Petra Mende, Elke Behrens: Anna Feilner, court photographer in Oldenburg (1863–1929) . In: Oldenburger Landesverein eV (Hrsg.): Oldenburger Jahrbuch . tape 116 . Isensee, Oldenburg 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The 33rd traveling exhibition of the German Photographers Association including an exhibition in Cassel , in: Photographische Korrespondenz , 41st vol., Vienna 1904, p. 474
  2. ↑ Karl Schwier: German Photographers Calendar 1905 , in: Photographische Korrespondenz , 42nd year, Vienna 1905, p. 41
  3. ^ News for Town and Country, October 29, 1910
  4. ↑ Heike Wiese, Elke Behrens, Petra Mende: The lady under the black cloth - About the photographer Anna Feilner . 2005, ISBN 3-89995-205-7 , pp. 109-119 .
  5. ^ CH Claudy: The Autochrome Plate - Some First Experiences , in: The Camera , Vol. 11, 1907, pp. 438-450
  6. ↑ Nordwestdeutsche Morgenzeitung, October 29, 1910
  7. ^ Photo era magazine, Vol. 19, 1907
  8. ^ Official catalog of the International Photographic Exhibition Dresden 1909
  9. ^ Wiener Mitteilungen, vol. 14.1909
  10. ^ Paul Lewis Anderson: The gum-platinum process , in: American Photography , Jg. 4, 1910, pp. 182-193
  11. ↑ Seggern, Hans von and Franken, Bernd: History and stories around the St. Gertruden-Kirchhof, 3rd revised. u. exp. New edition 2009
personal data
SURNAME Feilner, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feilner, Anna Geneta Helene Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Elsfleth
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1929
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)