Gregor Renard

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Gregor Renard (born November 21, 1814 at Gut Knoop ; † April 6, 1885 in Kiel ) was a German photographer , silhouetteur and painter .

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Label on photo by Gregor Renard

Gregor Renard was a son of the writer Johannes Ludwig Renard (1775-1859) and his wife Catharina Margrethe, née Thießen. He went to Copenhagen around 1840 , where he wanted to train as a sculptor at Bertel Thorvaldsen . Thorvaldsen pointed out the daguerreotype and advised against sculpting. From the beginning of the 1840s Renard worked as a silhouetteur in the Danish capital . He also painted portraits, china and artistic pictures. From 1843 at the latest, he also made daguerreotypes. In the summer months he left Copenhagen and worked on portraits in other places. Works from Helsingør (1843) and Roskilde are known(1844). In 1843 one of his porcelain portraits was shown in the Charlottenborg exhibition .

At the beginning of 1847 Renard opened a studio for daguerreotype on Wall in Kiel and concentrated entirely on the early form of photography. He specialized in miniature portraits and silhouettes and established the new technology, which was almost unknown on site, in Kiel. Renard took up technical progress and used the negative process from around 1855 . From 1860 he offered a forerunner of the cinema with a “permanent stereo exhibition in a specially built pavilion, Klinke 335a”.

family

On September 9, 1843 Renard married the Danish Christiane Henriette Johanna Søfverborg (1823-1904) in Copenhagen. The couple had six daughters and three sons. All of the sons later worked as photographers. The photo studio was continued for several generations after the death of Gregor Renard.

literature

  • Jan Siefke Kunstreich: Raven, Gregor . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1970, pp. 229-230

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SURNAME Renard, Gregor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer, silhouetteur and painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Good knoop
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1885
Place of death Kiel