Eduard Kiewning
Ferdinand Richard Eduard Kiewning (born June 2, 1843 in Culm , † between 1912 and 1915 near Greifswald ) was a German photographer, photo chemist and pioneer of color photography .
Life
Eduard Kiewning was the son of the master tailor Friedrich Kiewning (* 1816 ) and his wife Elisabeth Kiewning (* 1822 ). Friedrich Kiewning was a tailor in Thorn between 1866 and 1876.
Education and professional career
Nothing is known about Eduard Kiewning's childhood, youth or education. From 1868 on he was the owner of a photo studio in Greifswald . From 1870 Kiewning also operated branches in Wolgast and Demmin from there . At the world exhibition in Vienna in 1873 he presented his work to an international audience for the first time. From 1874 he relocated his studio to Stettin . He received an award at the World Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia, as well as at a photo exhibition in Amsterdam in 1877, the "General Trade Exhibition of the Province of Hanover " in 1878 and at the "Provincial Trade Exhibition in Bromberg" in 1880. Around 1879 / In 1880 he moved to Posen , where he worked until 1884. After that, Kiewning changed his place of residence and work several times - so far he has been in Thorn (1884), Bern (1884/85?), Fürstenwalde (1885), Berlin (1887-1891), Munich (1893/94), Breslau ( 1897–1899) and Gleiwitz (1899–1901) detectable. In the later 1880s he published more frequently in the photographic press on various photochemical topics. As a recognized photographer and photo chemist, he was employed by the Neue Photographische Gesellschaft in Berlin in 1904 , which had developed into one of the most successful and innovative photo companies from 1894 onwards.
Africa trip
The Internationale Weltverlag in Berlin hired Kiewning in 1907 alongside Robert Lohmeyer (1879–1959) and Bruno Marquardt (1878–1916) to take color photographs in the German colonies according to Adolf Miethe's system . The photographers were equipped with Bermpohl machines for this purpose. The project received administrative support from the Reich Colonial Office. Kiewning began his journey in May 1907 as the first of the three photographers. He reached German South West Africa in June and took pictures in and around Swakopmund and along the railway line to Windhoek and in the wider area of Windhoek. He probably did not travel to the south of Namibia due to the still uncertain situation due to the Herero-Nama War (1904–1907/08), which had just ended . This task was taken over by Robert Lohmeyer in 1909, who contributed photographs from the south and north of Namibia as well as portraits. Kiewning's pictures are probably the first color photographs ever to have been taken in Africa.
The photographs were first published in 1909/1910 in the work “The German Colonies”, which was produced after the bankruptcy of the International World Publishing House in 1908 by the newly founded “Verlagsanstalt für Farbenphotographie Weller & Hüttich” in Berlin, but later also in other publications. After the war, new editions of "The German Colonies" were published between 1924 and 1926.
Further work
After his return, Kiewning gave lectures on his experiences with color photography. He first settled in Berlin, where he was listed in the Berlin address books as a "photochemist". Around 1912 he moved to Greifswald , where he died before 1915.
family
Kiewning married Elise Karoline M. Jarmer in Greifswald in 1868 or Farmer (1837–1882) widowed Kruse. The photographer Karl Jakob Eduard Kruse (* 1859), who ran a studio in Berlin from 1885, became his stepson in this way. Two daughters resulted from the marriage: Anna Auguste (born October 10, 1871 in Greifswald ) and Wilhelmine Elisabeth (born December 27, 1872 in Greifswald; † February 16, 1915 in Berlin ). After the death of his first wife in 1882, Kiewning married the daughter of the Stettin businessman August W. Bernstein, Elise Maria Bernstein (born November 11, 1850 ) in the same year .
Fonts
- Heliogravure, in: Photographische Correspondenz 26 (1889), No. 345, pp. 288–290 and Ebda. No. 346, pp. 324-329
- The Schaarwächter studio in Berlin, in: Photographisches Archiv 30 (1889), No. 620, pp. 116–119 and Ebda. No. 621, pp. 139-142
- Magnesium Flash-Light and its Application in Photographic Practice, in: The American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1892 , Boston 1892, pp. 178-179
- Amidol as an excellent developer for bromide silver paper, in: Yearbook for Photography and Reproduction Technology for the year 1894 , Halle ad Saale 1894, pp. 143-145
Publications with photographs by Eduard Kiewning
- Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft (Ed.): Color photographs from the German colonies. 48 color photographs from nature. Following the work of W. Scheel “Germany's Colonies” . Publishing company for color photography Weller & Hüttich. Berlin [1912/13]
- Pfeiffer, Hans-Ernst (Ed.): "Our beautiful old colonies". With e. Vorw. V. Ernst Wilhelm Bohle. With 189 color photogr. Fig. After nature photograph. v. R. Lohmeyer, Br. Marquardt. Ed. Kiewning and Helmut Blenck as well as 20 monochrome. Text fig. u. Maps vd image area d. Reichskolonialbundes . CA Weller. Berlin 1941
- Scheel, Willy: Germany's colonies in eighty color photographic recordings . Publishing company for color photography Weller & Hüttich. Berlin 1912 (3 editions)
- Schwabe, Kurd (Ed.): The German Colonies , 2 volumes. Publishing house for color photography Weller & Hüttich. Berlin 1909/1910
- Schwabe, Kurd / Leutwein, Paul (ed.): The German Colonies: Anniversary edition for the forty year return of the beginning of German colonial history . Complete neubearb., Publishing House for Color Photography Carl Weller. Berlin 1924/1925
- Schwabe, Kurd / Leutwein, Paul (Ed.): The German Colonies . Publishing house for color photography Carl Weller. Berlin 1925/6 (ND Cologne: Komet Verlag 2009)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.zaklady-fotograficzne-stettin.com/page476.html . The site also contains numerous photographs produced by Kiewning.
- ↑ Emil Sembritzki (ed.): Der Kolonialfreund: critical leader through popular German colonial literature . Berlin 1912, p. 150 .
- ↑ Kurd Schwabe (ed.): The German Colonies , 2 vol. Publishing House for Color Photography Weller & Hüttich. Berlin 1909/10.
- ^ Willy Scheel: Germany's colonies in eighty color photographic recordings . Publishing company for color photography Weller & Hüttich. Berlin 1912 (3 editions).
- ↑ Kurd Schwabe / Paul Leutwein (eds.): The German Colonies: Jubilee edition for the forty year return of the beginning of German colonial history. Complete neubearb., Publishing House for Color Photography Carl Weller. Berlin 1924/1925; Kurd Schwabe / Paul Leutwein (eds.): The German Colonies , Publishing House for Color Photography Carl Weller. Berlin 1925/6 (reprint Cologne: Komet Verlag 2009, CD-ROM edition German colonies in color photographs ISBN 978-3-89853-344-7 ).
- ^ Photographic corner. On photography in South West Africa, in: Prager Tageblatt, December 15, 1907, p. 15.
- ↑ http://www.fotorevers.eu/de/fotograf/Kruse/1617/ .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kiewning, Eduard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kiewning, Ferdinand Richard Eduard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer, photo chemist and pioneer of color photography |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Culm |
| DATE OF DEATH | between 1912 and 1915 |
| Place of death | near Greifswald |