Carl Friedrich Mylius
Carl Friedrich Mylius (born January 10, 1827 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 23, 1916 there ) was a German photographer .
Life
Mylius was the son of a watchmaker and completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer in Frankfurt . In 1842/43 he studied at the Städelschule , but remained without a degree.
During his traveling years he worked in various cities in southern Germany . In 1851 he married in Nuremberg . In 1854 he returned to Frankfurt am Main, where he lived until his death in 1916.
Mylius specialized in architecture and landscape photography . His recordings document the change and growth process that Frankfurt went through during this time. With a few exceptions, the motif of his work, and thus atypical of the time, were not the celebrated new buildings of this era, but primarily the old town, which has been preserved in its medieval state . Countless photos are of inestimable historical value, as they are often the only photographic evidence of the renovation or destruction of entire city districts.
He worked exclusively with the wet collodion process and continued to use this technique even when the dry plate process emerged in the 1870s . About 50 of his glass negatives are preserved in the Frankfurt City Archives (today the Institute for City History ).
Mylius is buried in the Frankfurt main cemetery.
literature
- D. Bartetzko , D. Hoffmann, A. Junker, V. Schmidt-Linsenhoff: How Frankfurt was photographed. 1850-1914. Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-921375-20-7 .
- Eberhard Mayer-Wegelin (Ed.): The old Frankfurt am Main. Photographs 1855–1890 by Friedrich Mylius . Schirmer / Mosel Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-8296-0682-0 .
Web links
- Mylius, Carl Friedrich. Hessian biography. (As of May 9, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Mylius, Carl Friedrich in the Frankfurt dictionary of persons
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mylius, Carl Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mylius, Karl Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1916 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |