Bruno Wehrli
Bruno Wehrli (* 1867 in Kilchberg; † 1927 ) was a Swiss photographer .
life and work
Bruno Wehrli and his brothers Harry (1869–1906) and Arthur (1876–1915) founded the “Gebrüder Wehrli” photography business in Kilchberg in the 1890s.
As early as 1897, their company had four employees and they were able to open a second business. In 1904 they merged with the Bachmann photo shop in Lucerne and founded the stock corporation "Photographie-Verlag Wehrli AG".
In 1904 they made what was then the largest landscape photography in the world for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition . This showed a panorama of the Gornergrat and was 20.50 meters long and 2.25 meters high. The pictures were exposed on plates measuring 18 cm × 24 cm and copied onto bromide silver paper. The plates and the bromide silver paper were made by the company "JH Smith & Co." made from Zurich .
When Bruno Wehrli's brother Harry died in 1906, Adolf Zehnder from Kilchberg took over the administrative management of the business. After they fell out, Wehrli started working independently again on behalf of the Wehrli company.
In 1920 the Orell Füssli publishing house acquired the majority of shares in "Photographie-Verlag Wehrli AG". In 1924 the publishing house was bought by Photoglob AG, which was founded in 1899 by Orell Füssli for the worldwide distribution of photochromic pictures and painting reproductions. The addition "Wehrli" was later dropped from the company name.
literature
- Paul Hugger (ed.), Johannes Vogel: Gebrüder Wehrli. Pioneers of Alpine Photography , Swiss Photo Scene, 2005, ISBN 978-3-85791-475-1
Web links
- Company Wehrli In: Swiss Photo Foundation
- Photoglob-Wehrli In: HelveticArchives - the archive database of the Swiss National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wehrli, Bruno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kilchberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1927 |