Georg Böttger (photographer)

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Fire guard on the Petersturm, stereo photography by Georg Böttger, around 1865

Georg Böttger (* 1821 ; † 1901 ) was a German lithographer , engraver and photographer .

Life

Georg Böttger came to Munich in 1852 and later became a court photographer there.

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360 ° panorama of Munich from the Petersturm, 1858
Marienplatz at the corner of Dienserstraße, around 1860

Several old photographs of Munich architecture from the mid-19th century by Georg Böttger have been preserved, including several stereo photographs .

On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the city, he made a series of eleven photographs from the tower of St. Peter's Church in 1858 , which he put together to form a 35 × 448 cm 360 ° panorama.

Many of Georg Böttger's photos have come down to us from Karl Valentin's photo collection .

Web links

Commons : Georg Böttger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Böttger's panorama of Munich in the art gallery of the Hypo-Kulturstiftung ( Memento from December 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Richard Bauer, Eva Graf: Karl Valentins Munich. Stereoscopic photographs from 1855 to 1880 . Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag, Kreuzlingen / Munich 2007 ( excerpt as pdf, 152 kB).
personal data
SURNAME Boettger, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lithographer, engraver and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1821
DATE OF DEATH 1901