Clemens Weller

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Clemens Weller (full name Frantz Clemens Stephan Weller ; born May 17, 1838 in Neustadt in Brandenburg ; † July 17, 1900 ) was a Danish bookbinder and photographer in Copenhagen .

Life

The reverse of a Carte de Visite by Hansen, Schou & Weller , dedicated to Max Kurnik by an unidentified hand , dated " Breslau June 23, 1869"
Hans Christian Andersen at the window in his living room; Photo arranged in 1874 by Clemens Weller
Photo from the same series

As a trained bookbinder, Weller found a job with the Danish photographer Georg E. Hansen , where he was trained as a photographer. Weller later earned himself a reputation as a photographer.

From a letter from the editor Nicolai Bøgh to his author Hans Christian Andersen of October 21, 1866 and from Andersen's diary entry of the same day, it emerges that Weller had previously met the poet personally.

In 1869 Weller entered into a business partnership with Hansen's brother NC Hansen , from which the Hansen, Schou & Weller Atelier developed. In this partnership, Weller quickly became the driving force.

On May 21, 1874, Weller, now from the company Hansen, Schou & Weller , visited the poet Andersen in his living quarters at 18 Nyhavn Street to take an "outstanding series of [a total of five] portrait photographs" from the Cancer-scarred poet. The work took a total of two and a half hours, since the development of each individual photo on site took half an hour at the time. These five arranged photos, which for the first and last time showed the poet surrounded by the furniture in his living room, later formed an important basis for the reconstruction of the furnishings in HC Andersen's house . Andersen later thanked Weller in a detailed letter for the prints and glass plates he had sent. In the letter Andersen also asked Weller where he, the poet, should put his handwritten signature, since later prints were to be made as gifts and as a souvenir. In fact, there are prints from the glass plate negatives with Andersen's own handwritten addition “HC Andersen's study in Copenhagen 1874”.

The last recordings of Andersen before his death were made around 6 months later, again by Hansen, Schou & Weller and again in the poet's living quarters. On September 26, 1874, however, it was not Weller but the royal court photographer Georg E. Hansen who visited the poet to portray him.

Clemens Weller was chairman of the Danish Photographers Union ( Dansk Fotografisk Forening , originally Dansk Photographisk Forening ) for many years .

Works (incomplete)

  • From the numerous photographs by Clemens Weller under the common company name Hansen, Schou & Weller , the following photographs can be verifiably attributed to Weller's personal authorship:
    • May 21, 1874: Five photographs by Hans Christian Andersen in the Nyhavn 18 apartment , Copenhagen

literature

Web links

Commons : Clemens Weller  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ P. Fristrup: † / C. Weller / Formand for Dansk Fotografisk Forening (in Danish) on the weller.de page , last accessed on May 17, 2017
  2. ↑ Danish Royal Library: Weller, C.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Ane Grum-Schwensen, curator of the Odense City Museums , Odense : The Study at Nyhavn, Reconstructing the Study [of the last five photographs from ans Christian Andersen] ; online: ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 / museum.odense.dk
  4. ↑ DNB number of the German National Library ; however, the effective period specified there falls short.
  5. ↑ HC Andersen's journals, volume VII, p.200.
  6. ↑ Bjørn Ochsner: Photos of HC Andersen , pp. 70, 79; Ane Grum-Schwensen: The Study at Nyhavn, Reconstructing the Study [of the last five photographs from Hans Christian Andersen]
personal data
SURNAME Weller, Clemens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weller, Frantz Clemens Stephan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish court photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt , Brandenburg
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1900