Carl Immanuel Baumann

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Carl Immanuel Baumann (also Carl Baumann jun .; * 1832 in Tübingen ; † around 1900) was a Württemberg draftsman , photographer and lithographer in Tübingen. He was the son of the draftsman and photographer Carl Friedrich Baumann , known as Carl Baumann , and the older brother of the lithographer Hermann Baumann .

Life

Carl Immanuel Baumann was the eldest son of Carl Friedrich Baumann and his wife Catharina Carolina, b. Sider. He learned drawing and lithography from his father. He worked in his father's lithographic institute before 1854 and also helped when his father began photography with Rudolf Pfähler . He learned quickly - was mentioned as a “painter and photographer” as early as 1856 - and from the same year replaced Pfähler as his father's partner. During this time the photos were marked with “C. Baumann ”,“ Photography by Baumann, Tübingen ”or“ Photography by Baumann & Sohn ”. The collaboration between father and son lasted until December 1859, when he moved to the Engel and started his own business.

The increasing professionalization of photography prompted Baumann junior to build the first photo studio building in Tübingen in 1861. The approximately 5.0 × 2.8 m building made of boards and glass was located in the garden of the baker's widow Lemberger in Wilhelmstrasse diagonally across from the New Aula and was of a provisional nature, as the municipal council required in the permit that it could be dismantled at any time . The studio was initially successful and took a plethora of portrait photos. When King Karl came to Tübingen in June 1865 on his homage tour through Württemberg and visited a trade exhibition in the greenhouses of the Botanical Garden , he admired photos of the Baumanns there because they were the only photographers invited to the exhibition. But there was no lasting success: the studio was auctioned off in the spring of 1866 together with two "photographic apparatus". The starting price was 100 florins , which supposedly offered a rare opportunity to “acquire such well-preserved items so cheaply”. After 1866, Carl Immanuel Baumann - like his father, by the way - was only mentioned as a lithographer.

literature

  • Wolfgang Hesse: Views from Swabia. Art, country and people in photos by the first Tübingen photographers and the photographer Paul Sinner (1838–1925) , Metz brothers  : Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-921580-79-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Hesse: Views from Swabia ... , p. 30 quoted from the local council minutes 1856 § 1777 (Tübingen city archive, inventory A75)
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Hesse: Views from Swabia ... , p. 30 quotes the son's advertisement from the "Tübinger Chronik" of December 7th and 12th, 1859.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Hesse: Views from Swabia ... , p. 35
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Hesse: Views from Schwaben ... , p. 31 quotes the announcement of the auction from the "Tübinger Chronik" on February 6th and March 10th and 13th, 1866. - The buyer was apparently the photographer Julius Fritz, who ran the studio from the beginning May 1866.
personal data
SURNAME Baumann, Carl Immanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baumann, Carl jun .; Baumann, Carl junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wuerttemberg draftsman, photographer and lithographer in Tübingen
DATE OF BIRTH 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH around 1900