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August Kampf (* 1836 ; † 1914 ) was an Aachen painter and imperial court photographer of the 19th century . He worked as a person and architecture portraitist.
Live and act
August Kampf, son of Karl Kampf, a ribbon weaver and fabric printer in Elberfeld and Elisabeth Althoff, was married to Maria (1837–1890), daughter of the silk printer Hendrik Ludwig Westendorp, and father of the painters Arthur von Kampf and Eugen Kampf . August Kampf created cartes-de-visite , photographs in cabinet format and colored works. He also staged real decorations. The photographers of that time had props that they arranged like a stage set for their photographs.
August Kampf presented himself as a photographer of the German Reich with the coat of arms eagle on his lapel. He ran his studio in 1863 at Comphausbadstraße 25 and from 1864 in the neighboring house number 27, where Jacob Wothly had worked as a photographer and painter ten years earlier . In the Aachener Adressbuch 1863 he advertised "recordings at any time of day."
Further information about the photographer August Kampf can be found in the prints on the lapel of his cartes-de-visite. August Kampf was the "court photographer of His Majesty and Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia". The medal from the trade exhibition in Düsseldorf from 1880 and another medal from the 1873 world exhibition in Vienna are among his merits. The motto of the exhibition in Vienna, where Kampf had its stand in the rotunda of the Industriepalast, was: "Culture and Education". During the exposure, cholera broke out in Vienna and 13 tourists fell ill. Nevertheless, lavish balls were celebrated.
In Aachen, Kampf later expanded to Theaterstrasse 3, where the photo studios of Carl Billotte , August Classens, Adolph Erkelenz and Eugen Westendorp culminated at that time and on the neighboring Theaterplatz .
Works
- Aachen City Hall
- 1863 Aachen Elisenbrunnen
- Maria Lambertz, daughter of Henry Joseph Napoléon Lambertz , several carte-de-visits,
- Henry Lambertz family, private property
literature
- Rudolf Dünnwald: Aachen architecture in the 19th century. Friedrich Ark town builder 1839-1876. Aachen contributions to building history and local art. Vol. 6 i. A. d. Aachen History Association ed. v. Bernhard Poll , Aachen, Verlag Aachener Geschichtsverein, 1974.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Zirk: Kampf, Arthur von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 90 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ↑ Information about the photo studio
- ↑ Kampf lived in both houses in 1877/78 and was registered as the owner. In the Comphausbadstrasse as a photographer and in the Theaterstrasse as a court photographer. Address book Aachen. 1877/78; 1879.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fight, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German imperial court photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1836 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1914 |