F. Albert Schwartz
Friedrich Albert Schwartz (born January 12, 1836 in Berlin ; † May 4, 1906 there , full name Friedrich Ferdinand Albert Schwartz ) was a Berlin photographer .
Life
Friedrich Albert Schwartz was born on January 12, 1836 in Berlin at Friedrichstrasse 165 as the son of bookbinder David Emanuel Schwartz. He learned the art of photography in the studio of his uncle Heinrich Ferdinand Schwartz, who ran the Schwartz photo studio at Friedrichstrasse 185 .
Around 1860 Schwartz opened his own studio at Friedrichstrasse 73. Commissions to take pictures of industrial plants, such as the Borsig and Schwartzkopff factories, or utility buildings, such as the municipal gas station on Gitschiner Strasse, brought him to architectural photography . The orders also included recordings of machines, for example locomotives.
In 1867 Schwartz moved his studio to Friedrichstrasse 115 and now operated under the name of Photographische Anstalt und Kunstverlag . Prince Carl of Prussia awarded him the title of court photographer and so he advertised with the court photographer of His Royal Majesty the Prince Carl of Prussia . Partly on behalf of the magistrate, partly at his own risk, Schwartz began to record the transformation of Berlin from a royal residence to a modern metropolis. In his photos, the photos of the disappearing historical buildings predominate - in contrast to the photographer Hermann Rückwardt , who concentrated on the new buildings from the mid-1880s. Some buildings, such as Palais Itzig at Burgstrasse 26/27, which had to give way to the construction of the Berlin Stock Exchange in 1858 , have only survived through photographs by Friedrich Albert Schwartz. In addition to the documentation of the historical cityscape, there are also pictures of new buildings or rare building photographs, for example of the building of the hall of the Anhalter Bahnhof . A major project was the photographic documentation of the construction of the Berlin light rail from 1878 to 1882. Another series of photos by Schwartz documents the demolition of the old cathedral in the Lustgarten around 1890.
In 1882 he moved to Luisenstraße 23 and described himself as the owner of a photographic establishment for the recording of machines, architecture, landscapes, art and industrial objects etc. and a photographic art publisher . From 1887 to 1902 the company was located at Bellevuestraße 22 on Potsdamer Platz and then at Leipziger Straße 93.Friedrich Albert Schwartz handed the studio over to his son Rudolf Albert Schwartz (* May 4, 1864; † February 8, 1920 in Berlin) due to health issues, who had worked in the studio since the beginning of the 1880s. He died on May 4, 1906 in Berlin and was buried in the Wilmersdorf cemetery.
Buyers of his pictures were the library of the magistrate, the Prussian State Library and the Märkisches Museum . Another sales channel was the Association for the History of Berlin, founded on January 28, 1865 . As a member, Schwartz accompanied the association's hiking trips, advertised views and group pictures in the association's communications and drew attention to the large number of views that were in Rheinsberg, Prenzlau, Schwedt, Angermünde, Boytzenburg, Groß-Lichterfelde, Templin, Gransee, Wittenberg , Eberswalde, Teupitz, in the Spreewald u. are included .
See also
literature
- Friedrich Albert Schwartz, Hans Werner Klünner [explanations]: Berlin 1856 - 1896 - photographs by F. Albert Schwartz. Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3875843436
- Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation (ed.): The photography collection of the painter Eduard Gaertner . Berlin around 1850 , Nicolai Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-89479-345-6 (contains 77 recordings by Leopold Ahrendts , F. Albert Schwartz and Philipp Graff )
Web links
- Directory of collections with photographs by F. Albert Schwartz
- Literature by and about F. Albert Schwartz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Search for F. Albert Schwartz in the German Digital Library
- Search for F. Albert Schwartz in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
swell
- ^ Advertisement from communications by the Association for the History of Berlin. Issue 1, 1890
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schwartz, F. Albert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schwartz, Friedrich Ferdinand Albert (full name); Schwartz, Friedrich Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1906 |
| Place of death | Berlin |