Franz Vältl

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Franz Xaver Vältl (born November 18, 1881 in Lindkirchen ; died December 30, 1953 in Weimar ) was a German photographer and before 1919 a court photographer in Weimar.

Life

Franz Vältl had his own studio in Weimar since 1908 and was later head master of the photographers' guild. When Louis Held fell out with Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst in 1905 , Vältl was appointed the new court photographer .

Vältl was one of the pioneers of 35mm photography , especially with the Leica Camera , and gave special courses to train professional photographers in 35mm technology at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar .

In 1911, at the Third Congress of Psychoanalysts in Weimar, Vältl was commissioned to take a group photo in which Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung can (still) be seen side by side.

Vältl was a holder of the Grand Ducal State Medal.

Works (selection)

  • Guide through Weimar. With 12 pictures based on photographs by Franz Vältl and a city map . Leonard Schrickel, 1924
  • The Leica portrait .

literature

  • Gitta Günther (Ed.): Weimar: Lexicon to city history . 2nd, improved edition. Weimar: Böhlau, 1997
  • Franz Vältl died , obituary, in: Die Fotografie 8 (1954) 2, page 57. VEB Wilhelm-Knapp-Verlag Halle (Saale) Link
  • Andreas Peglau, Michael Schröter: Relative calm after and before the storm. The III. Psychoanalytical Congress in Weimar 1911 . In: Luzifer-Amor, Heft 52 (with notes on Vältl)

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