Hans Jakob Schmid
Hans Jakob Schmid (born April 13, 1856 in Nürensdorf ; † November 8, 1924 in Zurich ; legal resident in Nürensdorf) was a Swiss lithographer .
Hans Jakob Schmid completed an apprenticeship in lithography in Zurich and joined Orell, Füssli & Co. in 1876 . He developed a reproduction process in planographic printing that could reproduce the halftones in the photographs and made it possible to produce photochromic prints from black and white negatives. The patent for this invention was secured in 1888 by Orell, Füssli & Co., which opened a branch under the name Photochrom in Zurich (from 1895 Photoglob Zurich ). In 1911 he retired to Oberägeri , where he was also involved in founding the Ländli Diakonieverband.
literature
- Bruno Weber: Around the world in photochrom. In: Max Mittler (ed.): Germany at the turn of the century. Zurich 1990, pp. 145–150 (reprinted by Museums Maur, Maur 2002, digitized version ).
Web links
- Pierre Chessex: Schmid, Hans Jakob. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schmid, Hans Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nürensdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 1924 |
| Place of death | Zurich |