Carl Albert Dauthendey
Carl Albert Dauthendey (born November 1, 1819 in Ermsleben , † September 5, 1896 in Würzburg ) was a photographer working in Germany and Russia.
Life
Dauthendey came from Ermsleben, today a district of Falkenstein in the Harz Mountains . His father was the Prussian actuary Heinrich Salomon Lebrecht Dauthendey (1775–1839), his mother was Dorothee Dauthendey, née Happach (1786–1847).
In 1833 he began an apprenticeship as a mechanic in Magdeburg , in 1834 he became an apprentice and employee in the Tauberschen Optical Institute in Leipzig, which had existed since 1800 . It was here in 1841 that he first came into contact with the camera invented by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre and presented to the public in 1839. Despite the high costs, he succeeds in acquiring such a daguerreotype and subsequently experimenting with photographic recordings under improvised circumstances in his apartment in the Leipzig suburb of Lindenau . First successful experiments he showed in 1842 at the Leipzig Easter Fair and held at the city's UniversityIn addition, a lecture on the art of photography. He quickly became a sought-after daguerreotype artist in Leipzig and beyond in Central Germany. At the same time he also received an invitation to the Princely Court of Anhalt-Dessau . Because of these activities, Dauthendey is today one of the first professional photographers in Germany.
Dauthendey felt encouraged by a letter of recommendation that Duchess Friederike von Anhalt-Dessau sent to her cousin, the Russian tsarina Alexandra Fjodorovna , to look for his professional future in Petersburg . From 1843 he worked as a studio photographer in Russia for 20 years , including for the court of the Russian tsar . He ran two studios in Petersburg: on Nevsky Prospect and on Grosse Stallhofstrasse.
Due to the onset of repression by the Russian authorities against Dauthendey, he returned to Germany in 1862. First he settled with his family in Dresden, from 1864 on in Würzburg, where he ran his own studio from 1865 in Büttnersgasse No. 2 (today Büttnerstraße). Since May 1876 he had his own apartment and studio in the newly built Würzburger Kaiserstraße (No. 9). In addition to his studio, Dauthendey also engaged in photographic experiments, made experiments with color processes and invented a collodion lacquer for photo retouching, for which he received awards at the world exhibitions in Vienna and Philadelphia . Since none of Dauthendey's children showed any interest in taking over and continuing the photo studio, he closed it in 1893 after more than fifty years as a professional photographer.
Dauthendey was married twice: first from 1844 to her suicide in 1855 with Anna Olschwang, then from 1857 to 1873 with Charlotte Caroline Friedrich (born on April 29, 1837, died on July 11, 1873). The two marriages resulted in a total of eight children, six of whom reached adulthood: Anna Dauthendey, married Jäger (1845–1920), Maria Dauthendey, married Detto (1848–1908), Dorothea Dauthendey, married Rübel (1851–1887), the writer Elisabeth Dauthendey (1854–1943), Kaspar Dauthendey (1860–1885) and the writer Max Dauthendey (1867–1918). He wrote the memory book The Spirit of My Father. Notes from a buried century , first published in 1912 by Verlag Albert Langen in Munich.
On the occasion of the 200th birthday of Carl Albert Dauthendey, the Institute for Art History at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Museum for Franconia in Würzburg hosted the international conference Carl Albert Dauthendey: Photo Pioneer and Cultural Mediator in November 2019 .
literature
- Heinz K. Henisch: Carl Dauthendey. Pioneer Photographer , in: History of Photography 2 (1978), pp. 11-18.
- Aleksandr Kitaev: Peterburgskij svet v fotografijach Karla Dautendeja , Izdatelstvo Rostok, Saint Petersburg 2016, ISBN 978-5-94668-188-9 .
- Thilo Koenig: Dauthendey, Carl . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 24, Saur, Munich a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-598-22764-7 , p. 403.
- Walter Roßdeutscher (Ed.): Max Dauthendey and his family. The last Dauthendeys , Daniel Osthoff Verlag, Würzburg 2009, (annual edition of the Max Dauthendey Society, Issue 9), ISBN 978-3-935998-08-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Conference program on Artist.net.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dauthendey, Carl Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Experience |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 5, 1896 |
| Place of death | Wurzburg |