Georg Koppmann

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Georg Koppmann (born July 15, 1842 in Hamburg ; † July 4, 1909 there ) was a German entrepreneur and photographer for architecture .

The " Hamburg Harbor ", 1883

Life

Georg Koppmann ran a photographic business in Hamburg. In 1865, Koppmann moved into the photographic studio at Neuer Wall 38, which was used by the portrait painter and photographer Carl von Wieland from 1860 to 1865. The initial cooperation with Mr. Seyfarth ended after a short time. Koppmann first showed photographs of Mecklenburg farms in 1867. From 1870 Koppmann's studio was in Neuer Wall 5 for a period of 25 years. When it suspended orders because of the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in August 1870, he temporarily left Hamburg and looked for work abroad.

At that time, the Hildesheim Senator Hermann Roemer had surely observed on his travels through Germany that large-format photographs with city views could be bought everywhere, especially in Berlin, but not in Hildesheim. In correspondence between Roemer and the Hildesheim publisher Gerstenberg , Roemer personally campaigned for photos of Hildesheim. One of the two gentlemen met Georg Koppmann “by chance”. When Georg Koppmann was working in Braunschweig towards the end of 1870 , he was commissioned to produce a series of pictures about Hildesheim.

The Gerstenberg brothers' publishing house offered a total of 20 views of churches and secular buildings in an advertisement for Christmas 1871 . "Completely new original recordings [...] of a level of excellence in execution, as nothing even remotely similar was previously available", could be purchased as individual photos on cardboard. These photographs continued the customary tradition of buying steel engraving and lithography series of sights as art prints and travel memories.

Presumably he was active in Erfurt, as can be deduced from the release of a corresponding album. He must have been in Cologne too. In 1886 the architect August Hartel published a book about old and newer architecture in Cologne with 28 photographs by Koppmann.

On behalf of the Hamburg Building Deputation, Georg Koppmann had to take photographs of the historic buildings and streets that were to be laid down for the construction of a warehouse district for a free port area . Photographs by Koppmann & Co. were later sold on postcards by the Hamburg publisher Knackstedt & Näther .

In 1900, Koppmann took part in the presentation of the Hamburg cemetery Ohlsdorf at the Paris World Exhibition with 32 photos , where cemetery director Wilhelm Cordes and the Hamburg Senate were awarded a Grand Prix.

Works (selection)

Georg Koppmann & Co. , titled “View from Kehrwieder to Vorsetzen , timbers and stubbenhuk”
Hamburg , around 1870
  • Churches of Hamburg and Altona , mausoleum of Baron von Schröder , architectural and agricultural photographs presented at an exhibition in Altona in 1869.
  • Hildesheim views around 1871.
  • Erfurt album , 9 views of nature photographed, Neumann, Erfurt, 1873, cabinet format.
  • August Hartel (Ed.): Cöln (Cologne) in its old and newer architectures , Dorn & Merfeld, Leipzig, 1886, (with original photographs from nature, 28 plates).
  • August Hartel (ed.): Modern church buildings , Dorn & Merfeld, Leipzig, 1886, (10 collotype plates in folder).
  • Hamburg in front of the customs connection 1883/84. 20 panels in Leporello folds Praeger, Berlin [approx. 1890].
  • Postcards with photographs of Koppmann from Hamburg by Knackstedt & Näther .
Portfolios
  • Hamburg 1883 "Views from the city to be laid down". Red-colored portfolio with gold-embossed title, with 35 albumen prints on cardboard back, approx. 27.3 × 38.3 cm, below the picture name of the photographer, title and date, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fresolver.sub.uni-hamburg.de%2Fgoobi%2FPPN799327638~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D .
  • Hamburg 1884 "Views from the city to be laid down". Red-colored portfolio with gold-stamped title, with 36 albumen prints on cardboard back, approx. 27.3 × 38.3 cm, below the picture the name of the photographer, title and date.
  • Hamburg. Taken and edited by G. Koppmann & Co. Photographs. 32 plates, 1st edition, Otto Meissner Verlag, Hamburg, 1887.
  • St. Michaelis memory folder. Collection of original recordings of the Great Michaelis Church. Edited to commemorate the fire disaster of July 3, 1906. 23 original photographs, (photo size approx. 22 × 18 cm, box size approx. 32 × 25 cm) Koppmann & Cie., Hamburg 1906.

Awards

  • Bronze medal for interiors (third group) at the Hamburg exhibition [for photography] in November 1868
  • Merit medal for architecture photographs on the occasion of the world exhibition in Vienna in 1873 (photography department)

In memory of the artist and his work, the Hamburg Authority for Urban Development and Housing, in cooperation with the Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation, has been awarding the Georg Koppmann Prize for Hamburg Urban Photography, endowed with € 8,000, every year since 2018 .

literature

  • Olaf Matthes, u. a .: City image change . Photography in Hamburg 1870–1914. Ed .: Olaf Matthes, Museum of Hamburg History . Junius, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-88506-055-0 (Contains essays on and photographs by Koppmann).
  • Ulrich Pohlmann, Dietmar Siegert (ed.): Between Biedermeier and the early days . Germany in early photographs 1840-1890 from the Siegert Collection. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8296-0626-4 (catalog for the exhibition in the Münchner Stadtmuseum from November 30, 2012 to May 20, 2013; contains numerous photographs by Koppmann).
  • Joachim Frank, Iris Groschek: Michel burns! History of a Hamburg landmark edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2006, ISBN 3-86108-085-0 , p. 158 .
  • Ludwig Hoerner : Photography and Photographers in Hanover and Hildesheim . Festschrift for the 150th birthday of photography. Ed .: Photographers Guilds Hanover and Hildesheim. Berufsförderungswerk, Bad Pyrmont 1989, p. 76 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Müller and Rüdiger Wagner: Hamburg today and yesterday . Verlag Das Topographikon, Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-920953-19-3
  2. ↑ Celebration on the occasion of the 40th anniversary (October) 1905. (Source: Business News . In: Der Photograph , 14. Jg. No. 41, Hannober, 1905, p. 163.)
  3. ↑ Miscelles . The traveling album pro 1867. In: Photographische Korrespondenz , 1868, p. 53.
  4. ↑ The information is derived from entries in the corresponding Hamburg address books.
  5. ↑ a b c Ludwig Hoerner, p. 76.
  6. ↑ Hildesheim City Archives , No. 424 V46 as well as notes by Georg Koppmann, Hamburg, around 1909, in: Mappe Koppmann. Hamburg State Archives .
  7. ↑ At an exhibition in Altona in 1869, Koppmann had already presented photos of “Churches of Hamburg and Altona, mausoleum of Baron von Schröder, architectural and agricultural photos”. Koppmann was therefore already known for the quality of his building photos, which is why they probably did not meet “by chance”.
  8. ↑ News in the photographic art trade . Sheet 1–3 Cathedral (inner and outer view), sheets 4, 5, 6a and 6b Michaeliskirche (inner views), 7th and 7th. 8. Godehard Church, 9. Andreas Church, 10. – 12. Marktplatz, 13. – 16. Bürgerhaus, 17th Hohewegstraße, 18th street at Andreaskirchhof, 19th Königl. Andreaneum. In: Dr. E. Hornig (Ed.): Photographische Korrespondenz , 9th year, Verlag der photischen Korrespondenz, Vienna, 1872, p. 162.
  9. ↑ A copy of this work is in the Art and Museum Library of the City of Cologne .
  10. ↑ Vintage CA 1900 Postcard AK Germany Hamburg hof brauerknechtgraben ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2015 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. on delcampe .de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / delcampe.de
  11. ↑ The Ohlsdorfer Friedhof as a mirror image of large exhibitions by Barbara Scharf (from page 140, with images of the presentation area in the glass Palais de l'Horticulture )
  12. ↑ on : Exhibition Altona 1869 Catalog with Guide , Hermann Uflacker, Altona, 1869, p. 12 ( digitized version http: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fdigital.slub-dresden.de%2Fid306729326~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~ double-sided%3D~LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D)
  13. ↑ They are among the city's oldest surviving photographs. Of these works found in the Roman and Pelizaeus Museum , only two are signed , the others were not even drawn up and are probably proofs (source: Hörner)
  14. ↑ Frank Heidtmann: Bibliography of Photography, German-language publications from 1839-1984 , Walter de Gruyter, 1989, p. 570, no. 17374
  15. ^ Frank Heidtmann: Bibliography of Photography, German-language publications from 1839-1984 , Walter de Gruyter, 1989, p. 443, no. 13135
  16. ^ Hermann Vogel (ed.): Photographische Mitteilungen , 5th vol., Louis Gerschel Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin, 1869, pp. 239ff., ( Online ).
  17. ↑ Dr. E. Hornig (Ed.): Photographische Correspondenz , 10th year, Vienna, 1873, pp. 85ff., ( Online ).
  18. ↑ Georg Koppmann Prize for Urban Photography | shmh.de. Retrieved October 2, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Review by Roman Bucheli (report from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung from January 25, 2013): Early photographs from Germany - From the Middle Ages to the modern age on nzz.ch (With photos by Georg Koppmann)

Web links

Commons : Georg Koppmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Hamburg address books, partly also for the environment  - sources and full texts
Wikisource: Photographic Correspondence  - Sources and Full Texts
personal data
SURNAME Koppmann, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koppmann, G .; Koppmann & Comp .; Koppmann & Com .; Koppmann & Co.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and photographer in Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1909
Place of death Hamburg