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Friedrich Wunder and his wife Sophie Luise Margarete (around 1846/48)

Friedrich Karl Wunder (born October 27, 1815 in Bayreuth , † December 30, 1893 in Hanover ) was a German lithographer and the first and best-known photographer in Hanover in the 19th century. He left numerous portraits of well-known personalities and important topographical image documents on the history of the city of Hanover .

During his lifetime he was known as the “ Nestor of the German Photographers”.

family

Friedrich Karl Wunder's grandfather was Friedrich Wilhelm Wunder (1742–1828), a well-known painter, draftsman and scientist. His father Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wunder (1778–1842) was the "chamber registrar and supervisor of the natural history collection" at the court of the margrave in Bayreuth. In addition, he was probably a lawyer, as he is also referred to in the family tree as "Invoice Commissair and District Judge in Müncheberg ".

Friedrich Wunder had six children with his wife Sophie Luise Margarete , the daughter of the lithographer, printer and publisher Friedrich Baumgarte , whom he married in 1842: The first two twin daughters Ida and Dora Wunder (born August 24, 1842 in Hanover) were born . The second-born son Otto Wunder (1844–1921) later opened his own photo studio in Hanover; first in 1870 on Schillerstraße , last on Königstraße . With Carl Ludolph Ferdinand Wunder, another son was born on November 8, 1849. The son Karl Friedrich Wunder took over the business of his father in 1875 and in 1878/79 he had a new residential and commercial building built on Friedrichstrasse (today: Friedrichswall ) with the Wunder House . The youngest son Hermann Wunder (* 1853) also became a photographer and emigrated to Philadelphia at the age of 20 .

Life

Plan of the city of Hanover from 1846 by Friedrich Sohnrey ; Lithography and printing in the "[...] F. Wunder`schen lithography in Hanover"
Georg Haccius , President of the Hanover Monastery Chamber , in the Neuer Weg 3 studio

Little is known about Friedrich Wunder's childhood; one suspects an education with an artistic focus. He presumably completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer, because from 1835 he worked as such in the Baumgart'sche print shop . After the owner G. Fr. Baumgarte died, Friedrich Wunder took over the management of the business in 1840,

On November 21, 1841 Friedrich Wunder acquired the civil rights of the city of Hanover and married Louise Baumgarte on January 22, 1842 .

From 1841 Wunder made the first attempts in the field of the daguerreotype , in order to open a photographic studio in a printing house in the old town in 1844 ( Marktstraße 440, house number changed from 1845: No. 24). In 1846 he printed the “Plan of the Royal Residence City of Hanover” by Andreas Christoph Friedrich Sohnrey with the newly built main train station and the Ernst-August-Stadt .

On January 6th, 1852, Wunder joined the Johannis Masonic Lodge Zum Schwarzen Bär in the Orient of Hanover. In 1854 Wunder took part in the industrial exhibition in the Glaspalast in Munich . In 1856, Wunder acquired Billet No. 3 on the Neuer Weg . In 1859 the print shop was sold.

Shortly after the Photographische Verein zu Berlin was founded in 1863 , Wunder was a member of it from 1864 to 1868. In 1868 he received a medal for his work, which he had sent in for the second exhibition of photographic works in Hamburg.

Friedrich Wunder and his wife were buried in a family grave acquired in 1869 in the Engesohde cemetery , later their sons Karl and Otto followed there.

Works

Karl Marx Hanover, end of April 1867; Photo by Friedrich Wunder
Louis Kugelmann Hanover, April 1868; Photo by Friedrich Wunder

His most famous pictures include:

Awards

In 1868 Friedrich Wunder received the bronze medal at a photo exhibition in Hamburg.

literature

  • Ludwig Hoerner : Hanover in early photographs 1848–1910. Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-921375-44-4 .
  • Ludwig Hoerner: Friedrich Karl Wunder (1815-1893). Hanover's first photographer . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter / New Series , Vol. 39 (1985), pp. 261-295, ISSN  0342-1104 .
  • Hugo Thielen in: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 687.
  • Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 397.
  • AI Petrov / OK Senekina / BM Rudjak: Κарл Μаркс Фридрих Энгельс. Собрание фотографий , Izd-vo "Poster, Москва 1976 ( Karl Marx Friedrich Engels. Collection of photographs ) (2nd revised edition 1983)
  • Boris Rudjak : The photographs of Karl Marx in the central party archive of the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the CPSU . In: Marx-Engels-Yearbook 6 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1983, pp. 293-310, excerpt with images on Jürgen Herres' homepage .
  • Boris Rudjak: An amazing mix-up . In: Marx-Engels Research Reports 6 . Karl Marx University Leipzig, Leipzig 1990, pp. 159-164
  • Boris Rudjak: A mistake must be corrected. Over five photographs, the portraits of the wife and eldest daughter of Karl Marx became known . In: Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 13 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1991 ISSN  0232-6132 , pp. 320–328 (These pictures show Gertrud and Franziska Kugelmann and not Jenny Marx and her daughter Jenny as is often assumed.)

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Karl Wunder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsche Photographen-Zeitung , Weimar 1893, p. 313; Ludwig Hoerner: Friedrich Karl Wunder (1815–1893), Hanover's first photographer (see literature), p. 269.
  2. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner took the life data of the Wunder family from the family tree of Wolfhard Friedrich, "a great-grandson of FK Wunders." Hoerner seems to be relocated from the Prussian city of Bayreuth to the Prussian Müncheberg "conceivable - unless there is a typo here and that in Upper Franconia, Münchberg , southwest of Hof, is meant “.
  3. ^ Ludwig Hoerner: Hanover's first established photographer. In: Hanover in early photographs. 1848-1910 . Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-921375-44-4 , pp. 31–35, here: p. 31
  4. ↑ a b Ludwig Hoerner: Friedrich Karl Wunder ... ', Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter ..., p. 265.
  5. ↑ a b cf. Ludwig Hoerner: Hannover in early ... (see literature), p. 37.
  6. ↑ See e.g. B. Illustration and description at "liveauctioneers.com" in the "Weblinks" section.
  7. ^ Wilhelm Nöldeke : The Johannis Masonic Lodge to the Black Bear in the Orient from Hanover 1774 to 1874 , Hanover: Hofbuchdruckerei Gebrüder Jänecke, 1875, p. 31; Digitized via Google books
  8. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: Hanover in early ... (see literature), p. 34.
  9. ↑ The Stadtlexikon Hannover ... does not explain the ownership structure in more detail here.
  10. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: Hanover in early ... , p. 39 (see section “Literature”).
  11. ↑ Reference for this entire paragraph: Ludwig Hoerner: Hannover in early Photographien. Pp. 32, 36, 90f.
  12. ↑ There are original prints of these two photos in the Karl-Marx-Haus , Trier, in the IISG Amsterdam and in the RGASPI , Moscow, as well as in some other archives.
  13. ↑ Back side “My father Dr. Kugelmann ”in the handwriting of his daughter Franziska and the imprint:“ Friedr. Wunder Photographer Hannover Neuer Weg No 4 ”. The photo is dated “6 / 4.68” by Kugelmann. Facsimile in Boris Rudjak, 1991, p. 328.
  14. ↑ In addition to the imprint of Friedrich Wunder’s address, there is also a picture of a Hamburg 1868 medal on the back. See Boris Rudjak, 1991, p. 327.
personal data
SURNAME Miracle, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wunder, Friedrich Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lithographer and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1893
Place of death Hanover