August Stauda

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August Stauda

August Stauda (born July 19, 1861 in Schurz , Böhmen ; † July 8, 1928 in Vienna ) was one of the leading Viennese architectural photographers who made a name for himself as a city photographer and documentarist of the “ old Vienna ”.

Live and act

The Wiener Graben , photographed by August Stauda around 1890
1908: Inner courtyard of - then - Neubaugasse 33 in Vienna , later a seat of the toy manufacturer Emil Pfeiffer ;
Photo Stauda in the possession of the Austrian National Library

Stauda initially completed an apprenticeship as a clerk in Trautenau , worked as such in Pilsen and came to Vienna in 1882 to do military service. Here he learned the craft of photography from his uncle, the city and portrait photographer Johann Evangelista Stauda, and opened his own studio in 1885 at Schleifmühlgasse 5 in Vienna's 4th district of Wieden (at the current address of Galerie Kargl). From 1913 he was a sworn expert. During the First World War he had to file for bankruptcy. Stauda was married but remained childless.

In addition to taking landscape photos, he captured "old Vienna" in more than 3,000 photographs - inspired by the commission of the monument and homeland protector Count Karl Lanckoronski-Brzezie . He was primarily interested in those parts of the city that underwent significant urban development changes around the turn of the century, especially parts of the 2nd, 3rd and 9th district. While the appearance of the city center from that time can still be recognized today, the contemporary images of Mariahilfer Strasse or Neulerchenfelder Strasse show how the city has changed over the years.

Almost three thousand negatives and prints of his pictures from Vienna are now in the Austrian National Library in Vienna. Almost the same size is the collection of prints in the possession of the Wien Museum, which dedicated a comprehensive retrospective to the long-forgotten city photographer in 2006.

Stauda's other large holdings can be found in the Albertina's graphic collection , in the archive of the Vienna Federal Police Directorate and in the Historical Museum of the City of Krakow .

literature

Web links

Commons : August Stauda  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ JE Stauda (1853-1893) in Otto Hochreiter, Timm Starl, Lexicon for Austrian Photography, Bad Ischl 1983
  2. ↑ August Stauda in Otto Hochreiter, Timm Starl, Lexicon for Austrian Photography, Bad Ischl 1983, 93-209, 182
  3. ^ Website of the Vienna Museum, "August Stauda (1861–1928)", as of October 19, 2012
  4. ^ August Stauda in the picture archive of the Austrian National Library
  5. ↑ Vienna Museum - Vienna was different. August Stauda, ​​city photographer around 1900
  6. ↑ Article by Anton Holzer in the magazine Fotogeschichte (issue 101, 2006)
personal data
SURNAME Stauda, ​​August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Viennese city photographer and documentarist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Apron , bohemia
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1928
Place of death Vienna