Emil Mayer (photographer)
Emil Mayer (born October 5, 1871 in Neubydzow , Bohemia; † June 8, 1938 in Vienna ) was an Austrian lawyer and photographer .
Life
From 1891 to 1896 Mayer studied law at the University of Vienna . There he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. In 1894, while still a student, he resigned from the Israelite religious community and converted to Catholicism. After his studies he settled in Vienna as a lawyer.
Initially as an amateur, he was active in several Viennese photography associations that had dedicated themselves to artistic photography. Mayer also wrote a textbook on bromine oil pressure and registered several patents for this process. He was an honorary member of many domestic and foreign photography clubs. Eventually he gave up the law firm and, as the founder of the Drem-Zentrale, also devoted himself professionally to photography technology.
His artistic production is characterized by documentary images of Viennese street scenes and "types" that have been photographed unnoticed.
In order to avoid racist persecution by the National Socialist regime after the annexation of Austria in March 1938, he and his wife ended their lives on June 8, 1938.
Fonts
- Bromine oil pressure and transfer . (Encyclopedia of Photography; 81). 10th and 11th supplemented edition. Knapp, Halle (Saale) 1927 ( digitized version )
literature
- Back then in Vienna. People around the turn of the century Photographs by Emil Mayer. An exhibition by Franz Hubmann. With texts by Franz Hubmann and Christian Brandstätter. Jewish Museum Vienna / Verlag Christian Brandstätter, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85447-532-2 ( digitized version )
- Viennese types. Photographs c. 1910 by Emil Mayer. Essay by Edward Rosser. Blind River Ed., New York 1999, ISBN 0-9672975-0-8 .
- Anna Hanreich: On the photography of Emil Mayer. The Viennese types and the Wurstelprater. A lecture by Emil Mayer about the Wiener Wurstelprater was rediscovered in the Austrian Adult Education Center. 2005.
Web links
- Durstmüller: Mayer, Emil. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 420 f. (Direct links on p. 420 , p. 421 ).
- Mayer, Emil in the biography bibliography on photography in Austria at the Albertina
- Mayer, Elisabeth in the biography bibliography on photography in Austria at the Albertina
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mayer, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian lawyer and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neubydzow , Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1938 |
| Place of death | Vienna |