Franz Heinrich Bödeker

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Franz Heinrich Bödeker (* 2. December 1836 in Hildesheim ; † 20th June 1917 ) was a German lithographer , lithographer and independent photographer .

Life

Franz Heinrich Bödeker completed his apprenticeship as a lithographer and lithographer in Leipzig . Back in Hildesheim, he then worked for more than ten years as a lithographer at the Gerstenberg brothers' publishing house , which at the time was still running a lithographic printing company, in particular for printing sheet music.

Although there were already a number of long-established photographers in Hildesheim, Bödeker also started his own business as a photographer in 1871 and opened Am Steine ​​No. 1438 his photo studio , in which he also offered portraits . Within a few years, however, Bödeker developed into the city's most important architectural photographer : in 1875 Lax published his first of several portfolios in octave format with a series of photographs.

In 1878 Bödeker took part in the general provincial trade exhibition with portraits and a "series of interesting medieval works of art" from Hildesheim; for this he received a special mention from the official reporter of the exhibition.

At the end of the 1880s, Bödeker gave up portrait photography almost entirely and only photographed objects of architectural and art history. He made particular contributions to local history research when he photographed old buildings at the turn of the century before they fell victim to urban renewal and expansion.

In 1890 Bödeker set up his own photographic printing company in which he could reproduce his own photos. Bödekers sold his "art papers" as visual and teaching material for architects and building schools abroad.

A large part of the city views and art reproductions in the Hildesheim city archive and in the Roman and Pelizäus Museum come from Bödeker. After Bödeker's sons continued his work, around 2,000 glass plates from Bödeker's workshop came into the possession of the city archives in 1939.

Works

Illustrated books
  • 1875: two portfolios of Hildesheim's medieval art treasures, based on the originals, photogr. By FH Bödeker
  • 1883: a third series with the same layout as 1875
  • Franz Heinrich Bödeker: Old Hildesheim secular buildings , Volume 1, Lax, 1904
  • Ernst Cohn-Wiener: Braunschweig, Hildesheim and the Harz. 110 images based on nature photographs , images based on original photographs by FH Bödeker, Berlin: Verlag für Kunstwissenschaften, 1913
Estate (negatives)

literature

  • Ludwig Hoerner : Photography and Photographers in Hanover and Hildesheim. Festschrift for the 150th birthday of photography. Published by the Hanover and Hildesheim photographers' guilds, produced in the Bad Pyrmont vocational training center for typesetting, repro photography, printing forme production, flat printing and bookbinding as part of retraining , 1989
  • Herbert Reyer: Modern Hildesheim 100 years ago. A walk through the eyes of the Hildesheim photographer Franz Heinrich Bödeker from the train station to the museum , booklet for the presentation of historical photos in the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum 2001, 18 pages, 1.00 €, in the exhibition booklet series
  • Herbert Reyer: The Hildesheim photographer Franz Heinrich Bödeker and his photos of the "modern" Hildesheim , in: Hildesheimer Jahrbuch , Vol. 75, 2003, pp. 187-204
  • Martin Hartmann: On Christmas Eve 100 years ago, the Blankenburg burned in the series Historical documents from the city archive [Hildesheim] , part 25, as a PDF document

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Digital Library Braunschweig: Braunschweig, Hildesheim and the Harz ...
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Ludwig Hoerner: Photography and Photographers in Hanover and Hildesheim ... , p. 77f.
  3. ↑ German inscriptions Online : SOURCES AND LITERATURE: CITY HILDESHEIM
personal data
SURNAME Bödeker, Franz Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lithographer, lithographer and photographer in Hildesheim
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1917