Gregor Baldi
Gregor Baldi (born April 22, 1814 in Telve , Valsugana , † December 25, 1878 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian pioneer of photography .
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Life
The South Tyrolean Gregor Baldi was the youngest son of the large couple Teresina and Baldassare Baldi.
He began his professional activity at the age of 15 in his brother Antonio's shop in Linz . He married Magdalena Buchsbaum or Buxbaum during his time in Linz. There were no children from the marriage.
In 1842 he received citizenship in Salzburg. From around 1842 to 1861, after a short time in Innsbruck , he ran his own company in Salzburg, where art and clothing items were sold. This also included items such as JG Popp's vegetable tooth powder , for which he was the sole agency in Salzburg, and the “Princess Water from August Rennard in Paris”.
Baldi also worked as a printer and publisher. During this time he brought z. B. nine albums with steel engravings. Some of these engravings came from Karl Friedrich Würthle . In 1853 he advertised that he had acquired the right to reproduce a portrait of the future Empress Sisi . The painting by Dürk was to be electro-engraved by Leo Schöninger . In 1856 he published a Mozart commemorative picture.
Baldi and Würthle finally got together and founded their photo studio Baldi & Würthle in the house at Riedenburg No. 17 in January 1862. In 1866 the company moved to Schwarzstrasse 9. In addition to portraits and group pictures, which were produced using the albumen technique and later using the gelatine technique, they mainly took pictures of Salzburg and the surrounding area.
In 1874 they parted ways shortly after a legal dispute and the company was divided into G. Baldi and F. Würthle; Baldi set up a new studio on the market square. Würthle kept the negatives he had made so far and continued to work alone in Schwarzstrasse. But after just a few months, the companies were merged again and the company name Baldi & Würthle remained until 1880, although Baldi died in 1878. After that it was called Würthle & Spinnhirn until 1892 - the chemist Spinnhirn was Würthle's brother-in-law - and from 1892 to 1904, after Würthle's death, Würthle & Sohn. Friedrich Würthle junior then sold the studio to Eduard Bertel and Carl Pietzner . However, he did not part with the previously affiliated publisher. In 1907 he went bankrupt and emigrated to India.
Baldi & Würthle was the first professional and well-known photo studio in Salzburg. Many of the pictures from this studio ended up in the Salzburg Museum Carolino-Augusteum .
Gregor Baldi's grave is located at the Petersfriedhof in Salzburg (crypt no.34).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b biography of Gregor Baldi at www.salzburgmuseum.at
- ^ KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei: Oesterreichischer Central-Anzeiger for trade and industry. KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1862, p. 249 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
- ↑ Changing publishers: Neue Salzburger Zeitung. Changing publishers, 1858 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
- ^ State of Salzburg: Salzburger Landes-Zeitung 1852 -. Land Salzburg, 1858, p. 372 ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ^ Wagner: Messenger for Tyrol and Vorarlberg. Wagner, 1853, p. 1211 ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ↑ Baldi, Würthle & Co. - The company's history at www.salzburgmuseum.at
- ↑ Erhard Koppensteiner, Baldi, Gregor (1814–1878) and Würthle, Karl Friedrich (1820–1902) , in: John Hannavy: Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Routledge, 2013, ISBN 978-1-135-87327-1 , p. 107 ( limited preview in Google book search)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baldi, Gregor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Telve (South Tyrol) |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1878 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |