Franz Landgraf (photographer)

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Franz Landgraf (born March 19, 1870 in Zschocken ; † October 15, 1953 in Zwickau ) was a German photographer and publisher of postcards, especially for the Ore Mountains .

Life

Commercial building in Zwickau's Kopernikusstrasse

Landgraf came from the area around the Saxon industrial city of Zwickau . After attending school, he was up in 1889 as a trained cooper on the roll in the Rhineland before moving to Berlin completed until 1895 his education successfully. In 1900 he became self-employed as a photographer and opened a photographic studio opposite the Zwickau barracks in Kasernenstrasse 2A (today: Kopernikusstrasse 2). At the same time he founded an art institute named after him there, in which he published over 13,000 different postcards of his own photographs until his death . Landgraf's first known card was canceled in August 1900. He also produced glass slide series, including, for example, The beautiful Saxony with 176 slides.

He became a member of the Erzgebirgsverein and gave slide shows before the First World War , some of which he organized together with his friend Anton Günther .

Landgraf's two sons also became photographers, and Hans Landgraf (1899–1980) settled in Oberschlema .

Honors

  • 1906: Honorary diploma from the Zwickau trade and industry exhibition

literature

  • Gottfried Becker: From the life of our Erzgebirge photographer Franz Landgraf . In: Glückauf , Pobershau, Vol. 109, 1998, H. 1, pp. 22-23.
  • Susann Gramm, Oliver Titzmann: The Landgrafs - photographers of their home in the Ore Mountains. Outlooks - insights - backsights . In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 2014, no. 3, pp. 2–7.
  • Susann Gramm, Oliver Titzmann: "Glückauf! To all. Your godfather Tonl". Two Erzgebirge: Anton Günther and Franz Landgraf . In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 2016, no. 3, pp. 6-10.

Web links

Commons : Franz Landgraf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry at the Deutsche Fotothek
  2. ↑ Susann Gramm, Oliver Titzmann: “Glückauf! to all. Your godfather Tonl ”. Two Erzgebirge: Anton Günther and Franz Landgraf . In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 2016, no. 3, p. 10
  3. ^ Wilhelm Knapp: Photographische Chronik , Volume 13, 1906, p. 490
personal data
SURNAME Landgrave, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and publisher of postcards
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Shock
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1953
Place of death Zwickau