Carl Jagerspacher

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Carl Jagerspacher (also: Karl Jagerspacher ; * 1844 in Vienna ; † September 22, 1921 in Gmunden ) was an Austrian photographer , painter and inventor as well as kuk court photographer and court photographer of the exiled Guelph family . In the 19th century in particular, he was the leading photographer in Gmunden and the surrounding area.

Life

Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in hunter's costume in front of a painted backdrop in the Jagerspacher studio, owner Ed. Humberg in Gmunden
( cabinet photograph No. 4674 of the New Photographical Society (NPG), around 1904)

Born in Vienna in 1844, Carl Jagerspacher took over the management of a studio branch of the photographer from Josef Löwy in Baden near Vienna in Lower Austria . In 1868 he became a member of the Photographic Society .

From 1872 to 1880 Jagerspacher ran his first own studio in Lehen, then from 1880 to 1909 in Gmunden. At the same time, he temporarily operated branches in Kammer am Attersee , Ebensee and Zell am See . In Gmunden in particular, Jagerspachers initially took mainly portraits, then also views of Gmunden and the surrounding area. He also included folkloric motifs in his program, but also photographed events.

In addition, Jagerspacher also dealt with watercolor painting, the application of which he brought into the photographic field. After years of trials, he applied for various patents on the so-called “gold ground images” he had developed.

In 1878 Jagerspacher received an honorary diploma for his work at the heraldic-genealogical-sphragical exhibition in Vienna .

In 1881 Carl Jagerspacher was appointed kk court photographer. Around 1895, he was named to the court photographer of the King of Hanover, George V appointed.

In 1910 Jagerspacher sold his property in Gmunden and acquired the Olga studio on Vienna's Alserstrasse . In the last year of the First World War , however, he gave up the studio in 1918 due to illness and returned to Gmunden, where he died in 1921.

Of Jagerspacher's sons, two sons also became professional photographers and one became a painter.

Literature (selection)

  • Otto Hochreiter, Timm Starl: Lexicon of Austrian Photography , in: History of Photography in Austria , Vol. 2, ed. by Otto Hochreiter and Timm Starl on behalf of the Association for the Development of the History of Photography in Austria, exhibition catalog, Bad Ischl 1983, pp. 93–209, 133
  • Gerhard Plasser: Photographers in the City and State of Salzburg , in: Kronland Salzburg. Historical photographs from 1850 to 1918 from the Carolino Augusteum collection , ed. by Wolfram Morath. With contributions by Lore Telsing, Karl Ehrenfellner, Gerhard Plasser, Sabine Veits-Falk, volume accompanying the special exhibition at the Carolino Augusteum, Salzburg: Carolino Augusteum, Salzburg Museum for Art and Cultural History, 2000 (annual journal 46, 2000), pp. 153–171, 159
  • oV : Obituary , in: Photographische Korrespondenz. Founded in 1864 by Government Councilor Cabinet. Organ of the Photographic Society in Vienna, [...] the Vienna Amateur Photographers Club, the Vienna Photo Club, the Wiener Lichtbildner Club [...], the St. Pölten Photo Club and the Society for Photographic Art in Vienna . Journal for photography and photomechanical processes, with the special assistance of Hofrat Prof. Dr. JM Eder, [...] also by Messrs. [...] , published by the Photographische Gesellschaft in Vienna. Edited by Prof. Heinrich Keßler […]. Fifty-eighth year. (No. 724–735 of the whole series.) […] Vienna and Leipzig: Property and publishing house of the Photographische Gesellschaft, Vienna, VII., Westbahnstrasse 25. […] 1921, p. 283
  • Karl Jagerspacher , in: The German-Austrian photographer. Trade journal for professional photographers, manufacturers and dealers of photographic supplies and accessories, as well as related subjects , 1921, issue 1 of December 22, 1921, Vienna: Gustav Kübart, p. 5f.
  • Cornelius Preiß: Died , in: Deutsche Lichtbildkunst , Editor [GH] Emmerich, No. 10–12, Jan. - March, 2nd year, 1922, Munich: Munich book trade house M. Müller & Sohn, p. 291
  • Heinrich Prince of Hanover (ed.), Heinz Schießer: The Welfen at the Traunsee. 130 years of Cumberland Castle in Upper Austria , with numerous images of photographs by Jagerspacher, 1st edition, Göttingen: MatrixMedia Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-946891-02-4 and ISBN 3-946891-02-0 ; contents

See also

Web links

Commons : Carl Jagerspacher  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Jagerspacher, Carl / biographical outline along with numerous other biographical information and sources on the page on the Albertina Collections online page, last accessed on September 25, 2017
  2. ↑ Photographische Correspondenz , 1868, p. 50
  3. ^ Gert Rosenberg: List of kk court photographers up to 1900 , typescript, (Vienna 1980)
  4. ↑ Kammerhofmuseum der Stadt Gmunden (Ed.): From portrait to picture postcard. Gmunden History of Photography since 1856 , Gmunden 1981, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Jagerspacher, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jagerspacher, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian court photographer, painter, inventor and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1921
Place of death Gmunden