GH Emmerich

GH Emmerich, portrayed by Alexander Binder

Georg Heinrich Emmerich (born March 15, 1870 in Frankfurt am Main , † October 19, 1923 in Munich ) was the founder of the first university for photography and the first professor for photography in Bavaria .

Vita

Emmerich was a trained photo dealer and had been running a magazine for photographic equipment and utensils with several branches in Munich since 1890 .

Emmerich was an ardent advocate of pictorialism , a style that wanted to prove that photography was a full-fledged artistic means of expression and not just a mere technique for simply taking pictures of subjects. Pictorialism is stylistically z. B. characterized by blurriness, careful selection of the section, flowing transitions, preference for night and foggy scenes, 'artistic' subjects (landscapes, portraits, nudes), processing of prints or negatives to achieve painterly effects.

As a passionate amateur photographer , Emmerich repeatedly exhibited his own work at several exhibitions, for example in 1893 at the first international exhibition for amateur photography in Hamburg or in 1902 as part of the Esposizione Internazionale di Fotografia Artistica tournament .

Emmerich has looked after various photographic journals since 1892.

Foundation of the educational institution

Entrance sign to Faculty 12 with a reference to the Photo Design Academy

In the May 1899 edition of the Allgemeine Photographen-Zeitung , Emmerich described in his article Photographische Lehranstalten , the training situation of German professional photographers as devastating and emphatically called for the establishment of a photographic training institute in Munich.

As a result, Emmerich founded the teaching and research institute for photography in Munich in 1900 . He was the founding director of the school from 1900 to 1917 .

In the course of its 102-year existence, the school was renamed, converted and finally integrated into the Munich University of Applied Sciences in 2002 :

1900: Opening of the teaching and research institute for photography
1904: Renaming to the teaching and research institute for photography, chemistry, collotype and engraving
1921: Renamed State Higher Technical School for Photo Technology
1928: Renamed the Bavarian State College for Photography
1945–1947 interruption of operations due to the war damage
1954: Renaming to the Bavarian State College for Photography
1990: Conversion to the State Academy for Photo Design in Munich
2002: Incorporation as a photo design course at the Munich University of Applied Sciences , Faculty 12 - Design

Private & death

Emmerich is the biological father of Walter E. Lautenbacher , who studied at the college from 1947 to 1949, founded the Association of Freelance Photo Designers (BFF) in 1969 and is considered the founder of the photo designer profession .

Emmerich pulled a small and harmless wound in the neck, but it became infected. Due to the limited medical options at the time, the infection spread and Emmerich died at the age of only 53 from the effects of sepsis .

Prizes, awards and honors

1899: Awarding of the Golden Medal of Merit of the South German Photographers Association and appointment to its honorary member during the association's 4th exhibition in Stuttgart.

1906: Awarded the title of Royal Professor

around 1901–1910: Awarded the rank of Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS) . This is the UK's Royal Photographic Society's highest award , in recognition of "excellence and exceptional skill and novel and innovative approaches" in photography.

<1911: Officer of the Grand Ducal Tuscan Civil Merit Order

<1911: Knight 1st class of the Duke of Anhalt House Order of Albrecht the Bear

<1911: Knight's Cross 2nd class of the Württemberg Order of Frederick

<1911: Cross of Honor IV class

<1911: Luxembourg Military and Civil Merit Order of Adolf of Nassau IV class

<1911: Lippische Rose for art and science

<1911: Great Golden Tuscan Medal for Art, Science and Literature

<1911: Golden and Silver Bavarian Herzog Max Medal

1917: Awarded the title Kgl. Bayer. Really Council (Royal Bavarian Real Council)

Publications

Monographs:

GH Emmerich: Workshop of the photographer. A handbook for photographers and reproduction technicians . Wiesbaden 1904
GH Emmerich: Lexicon for photography and reproduction technology: chemistry, collotype, photogravure . Among employees of gentlemen: Th. Bentzen… arrangement and ed. by GH Emmerich. Vienna, Leipzig 1910.

Periodicals (excerpt):

GH Emmerich: Photographic treasure trove. Monthly artistic supplement to the Allgemeine Photographen-Zeitung. Journal for Artistic Photography . 5th year, bound. Munich Callwey 1898/99.
GH Emmerich: Photographic treasure trove. Monthly artistic supplement to the Allgemeine Photographen-Zeitung. Journal for Artistic Photography . VI. Vintage, bound. Munich Callwey 1899/1900.
GH Emmerich: Photographic treasure trove. Monthly artistic supplement to the Allgemeine Photographen-Zeitung. Journal for Artistic Photography . VII. Year, bound. Munich Callwey 1900/01.
GH Emmerich: Photographic treasure trove. Monthly artistic supplement to the Allgemeine Photographen-Zeitung. Journal for Artistic Photography . VIII. Year, bound. Munich Callwey 1901/02.
GH Emmerich: Yearbook of the photographer and the photographic industry. A handbook for photographers, reproduction technicians and industrialists . 1903
GH Emmerich: Yearbook of the photographer and the photographic industry as well as the graphic trade . Berlin 1905
GH Emmerich: Photographic Art Half-monthly publication for artistic specialist photography . 5th year, bound. Munich 1907.

Web links

Wikiquote: Georg Heinrich Emmerich - Quotes

Literature by and about GH Emmerich in the catalog of the German National Library

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↑ Emmerich, Georg Heinrich, Photographische Lehranstalten , in: Allgemeine Photographen-Zeitung , 6th vol. 1899, No. 9 of May 31, 1899, pp. 88–90.
↑ n.v., The arrangement of the fourth exhibition of the Süddeutsche Photographen-Verein Stuttgart 1899 , in: Allgemeine Photographen-Zeitung, 1899, pp. 151–152.
↑ ^a ^b Ulrich Pohlmann (Ed.), Rudolf Scheutle: Apprenticeship Years - Light Years: The Munich Photo School 1900-2000. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-88814-943-6 , p. 30.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ G. H. Emmerich: Lexicon for photography and reproduction technology , A. Hartleben's Verlag, Vienna, Leipzig 1910, p. 169.
↑ Definition of FRPS (English) (PDF; 974 kB) ( Memento from December 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Emmerich, GH
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Emmerich, Georg Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 15, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	October 19, 1923
Place of death	Munich

[1] Emmerich, Georg Heinrich, Photographische Lehranstalten , in: Allgemeine Photographen-Zeitung , 6th vol. 1899, No. 9 of May 31, 1899, pp. 88–90.

[2] .v., The arrangement of the fourth exhibition of the Süddeutsche Photographen-Verein Stuttgart 1899 , in: Allgemeine Photographen-Zeitung, 1899, pp. 151–152.

[:0-3] Ulrich Pohlmann (Ed.), Rudolf Scheutle: Apprenticeship Years - Light Years: The Munich Photo School 1900-2000. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-88814-943-6 , p. 30.

[Emmerich_S.169-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ G. H. Emmerich: Lexicon for photography and reproduction technology , A. Hartleben's Verlag, Vienna, Leipzig 1910, p. 169.

[5] Definition of FRPS (English) (PDF; 974 kB) ( Memento from December 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )