August Adler (court photographer)

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August Adler (* 1842 in Mühlhausen , Vogtland ; † January 18, 1916 in Dresden ) was a German photographer who carried the title of Hofphotographer and mainly made portraits .

Life

Example of a group picture by August Adler, around 1880

He was the son of the farmer Johann Gottlieb Adler from the Saxon Vogtland. After attending school, he began an apprenticeship as a photographer. On February 18, 1870, he joined the Photographische Gesellschaft Dresden, founded a year earlier (founded October 15, 1869) and opened the Adler & Kühnel photography studio together with Eduard Kühnel at Victoriastraße 21 (changed to number 22 in 1893) in Dresden. After Eduard Kühnel left the business at the end of 1873, August Adler continued to run the photo studio alone.

He gained fame among other things through his participation in the exhibition of Saxon handicrafts and applied arts in 1896 , which he enriched with photographs in platinum, pastel, watercolor and oil paint overpainting.

In 1898, at the age of 56, he retired and sold his business to the photographer Raphael Arthur Bossard-Schlegel. He ran the photo studio under the name “Aug. Adler Nachf. ”Until the end of 1910.

The photo studio at Viktoriastraße 22 existed at this location until 1932, most recently in the possession of Alois Wagner, who ran a photography and jewelry shop here and promoted a proletarian Christmas around 1930 . The house was bombed on 13./14. Destroyed February 1945.

Honors

  • Hereditary Prince Georg of Saxony appointed him his court photographer . Several portrait photos from the youth of the later King of Saxony (1902 to 1904) were taken by August Adler.

literature

  • Horst Milde: Dresden studio photography between 1860 and 1914 . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1991, p. 45.

Web links

Commons : August Adler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Newsletter for the photography trade, Volume 23, 1916.
personal data
SURNAME Adler, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlhausen , Vogtland
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1916
Place of death Dresden