Gustav Trinks

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Gustav Eduard Bernhard Trinks (born April 29, 1871 in Joinville ; † November 10, 1967 there ) was a German businessman and photographer .

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Gustav Trinks was born in Brazil on April 29, 1871. His grandfather was one of the founders of Joinville. In 1880 he moved with his parents from Brazil to Hamburg , where he received a school education. From 1896 to around 1943 he was co-owner of the company Eisenwaren Gebr. Trinks. Since 1895 he was a regular member of the Society for the Promotion of amateur photography and learned at the brothers Hofmeister the rubber printing . From 1895 to 1900 and 1902 he took part in the annual photography exhibitions in the Hamburger Kunsthalle . In 1900 he won the “Prize for Progress” from the Society for the Promotion of Amateur Photography at the “General Competition”. Trinks photographed nature and landscape. Some of his photographs have been preserved in the Juhl Collection in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe .

From 1948 Gustav Trinks lived again in Brazil, where he died on November 10, 1967.

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SURNAME Trinks, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trinks, Gustav Eduard Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Joinville
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1967
Place of death Joinville