Georg Emil Hansen

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Georg Emil Hansen
The reverse of a CDV (dated 1880) with the title of court photographer

Georg Emil Hansen (born May 12, 1833 in Næstved ; † December 21, 1891 in Frederiksberg ) was a Danish photographer.

Life

Georg Emil Hansen was a son of the daguerreotypist Carl Christian Hansen and first learned his father's craft. In the 1850s he learned to work with glass negatives and paper pictures in Germany; In 1854 he opened a studio in Copenhagen with his father and in 1856 his own in Bredgade 22. He later moved his studio to Bredgade 61 and finally to Østergade 54.

Numerous pictures of Hans Christian Andersen were made by Georg Emil Hansen, including the last photographs of Andersen, which were taken on September 26, 1874 a few months before his death.

The National Portrait Gallery in London owns 26 photos that Hansen took.

Awards

Medals

  • In 1862 Hansen was honored with a medal at the world exhibition in London .
  • Hansen later presented a total of 6 medals (each with front and back) on the lapel of a cardboard backing of his photographs.

Title as court photographer

By 1880 at the latest, according to a Carte de Visite (CDV) dated by an unidentified hand, he was also a court photographer

  • "HRH the Prince of Wales ",
  • "De la Cour de Russie" (the court of the Russian tsar ) as well as
  • of the court of His Majesty the King of Greece.

literature

  • Mette Sandbye (ed.): Dansk Fotografihistorie . Gyldendal, Copenhagen 2004, ISBN 87-00-39586-2
  • Bjørn Ochsner: Photographer in and from Denmark to and from 1920 . 1986, ISBN 87-552-1216-6

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Næstved Museum
  2. ↑ Danish Royal Library
  3. ^ Næstved Museum , accessed August 28, 2011
  4. ↑ a b Odense City Museums ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 18, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / museum.odense.dk
  5. ↑ Ane Grum-Schwensen, curator of HC Andersen Hus: Reconstructing the Study (English)
  6. ^ National Portrait Gallery , accessed August 28, 2011
  7. ↑ Illustration of the dated medal on the back of this photo cardboard
  8. ↑ Revers of a later photograph
  9. ↑ Revert the CDV
personal data
SURNAME Hansen, Georg Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Næstved
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1891
Place of death Frederiksberg