Carl Billotte

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Carl Andreas Hubert Billotte (born August 22, 1836 in Aachen ; † March 5, 1917 there ) was a German photographer .

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Carl Andreas Hubert Billotte was the son of the Aachen society painter Heinrich Franz Carl Billotte and his wife Gertrud Coonen. From 1859 at the latest, the 23-year-old Carl Billotte worked as a photographer.

Billotte illustrated the treatise by Peter Stephan Kaentzeler on the bas-reliefs of the Aachen Karlsschreins . In it Kaentzeler explained for the first time the relief representations that depict the sagas of Charlemagne . The iconography of the relief images was based on the Chronicle of Ado , the Pseudo Turpin and the Historia Caroli Magni . The works of art were copper plates 1 1/3 feet long and 1 foot wide. Billotte then published eight images of the roof reliefs at the Jacob Hensen and company printing company. These are the earliest traditional photographic works of art by Carl Billotte.

He set up his photographic studio at Aachener Theaterstrasse 24, which he ran until 1893/95. At that time the photo studios of Carl Billotte, August Classens, Adolph Erkelenz, August Kampf and Eugen Westendorp culminated on Theaterplatz and Theaterstraße . Carl Billotte's recordings of Henry Joseph Napoléon Lambertz , his wife Pauline and their daughter Maria have survived from the years 1864 to 1880 . In co-production with his photo studio, Carl's father Heinrich Franz Carl Billotte prepared preparatory studies for his paintings and colored photographs. Carl's older half-brother Egidius Franz Carl Billotte was also active as a photographer and painter and ran a photographic studio in Brussels .

Carl Billotte died on March 5, 1917 at the age of 80.

Works

  • 1859 eight bas-reliefs from the Aachener Karlsschreins: Dream and Prayer ; Collapse of the walls of Pampelun ; Miracles of blooming lances ; Battle with the Navarre and Saracens ; Karl d. Size mourns the dead from the Saracen battle ; Karl the Great and Egidius ; Karl the Great and the miracle of the crown of thorns ; Karl d. Size gives Maria the cathedral
  • The Henry Lambertz family from 1864 to 1880 . 13 shots. Privately owned
  • undated: photo of an unknown boy . Privately owned

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geb.Urk. 1026/1836. State archive NRW Brühl. LAV Brühl.
  2. ↑ The Arab Albuseda agrees with the chronicle . P. St. Kaentzeler: "The container containing the bones of Charlemagne, located in the Muenster treasure in Aachen. Described and specifically explained by name in his eight bas-reliefs relating to Karl's saga for the first time and completely from the sources." Ulrichs, Aachen, 1859, p. 4f. Peter Stephan Kaentzeler was archive director from 1867 to 1884 ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aachen.de
  3. ↑ ibid., P. 4.
  4. ↑ "The 8 relief pictures belonging to the writing: The container containing the bones of Charlemagne, located in the Muenster Treasure at Aachen , explained by P. St. Kaentzeler, photographed by the painter Billotte Sohn and owned by the same, have been published and by J. . Hensen and Co. available at a price of 8 Sgr. Each. " Franz Lohmeyer, Pit Siebigs: “Motif Dom. Aachen photographers around 1900 see the building. ”Cathedral chapter Aachen (ed.), Aachen 1999, p. 10 .; Echo der Gegenwart, Mon., October 17, 1859, no. 286; "Book printing: Hensen, Jacob & Co (in the Löwenburg), Büchel 15." Address book Aachen. 1858.
  5. ↑ Die-Urk .: 641/1917; 591/1928. LAV Brühl.
personal data
SURNAME Billotte, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Billotte, Carl Andreas Hubert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1917
Place of death Aachen