Hermann Brandseph

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Hermann Brandseph: Knitting Peasant Woman, 1898
Hermann Brandseph: Woman at the Well, 1898

Hermann Brandseph (born September 10, 1857 in Stuttgart ; † May 9, 1907 ) was a German portraitist and landscape and architecture photographer. He was the son of the photographer Friedrich Brandseph .

life and work

Brandseph was initially an apprentice to the Matter brothers in Mannheim and trained himself as a draftsman. He went as a trainee to Fred Boissonnas in Geneva, where he trained in the field of artistic photography and was then employed in 1879 at Carl Ofen in Darmstadt and in 1880 at Lombardi & Co in London, before joining his father Friedrich Brandseph's studio in 1881 . He became a partner and in 1883/84 took over the business at Marienstraße 36 in Stuttgart, which at the time was considered the "most important in southwest Germany" and employed 20 people. Under his leadership, the studio was able to expand further, so that in 1887 37 people were employed.

As early as 1880 he had been appointed royal Württemberg court photographer. Soon he was considered the leading representative of his guild in Germany. Brandseph photographed not only the Württemberg rulers, but also wealthy citizens and artists. They included Robert and Anna Bosch and their children, Ludwig Pfau , the Armenian anarchist Alexander Atabekian , Ludwig Uhland , Clara Zetkin and Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Dietz .

In the obituary in the Photographic Chronicle , Brandseph is praised as one of the most important representatives of artistic photography at home and abroad, who strived for an artistic direction in photography from an early age. As a shop steward of the legal protection association of German photographers, Brandseph campaigned intensively for a protection law for German photographers and thus paved the way for professional photography in the 20th century.

After the early death of Hermann Brandseph, Paul Mutzig took over the studio under the name of Hofphotographer Hermann Brandseph Successor .

In 1901 Karl Osterwald had received a gold medal from the "Association for the Care of Photography and Related Arts in Frankfurt aM" for 40 years of employees at H. Brandseph.

Works

  • Album from Stuttgart and the surrounding area. Scheufele, Stuttgart 1903.
  • Hermann Brandseph: About instant photographs . In: Josef Maria Eder (Hrsg.): Yearbook for Photography and Reproduction Technology , 2nd year, Wilhelm Knapp, Halle / S. 1888, pp. 163-164

Awards

Secondary literature

  • Hermann Brandseph (Nekrolog). In: A. Miethe (Ed.), Photographische Chronik , Volume 14, Verlag Wilhelm Knapp, 1907, pp. 257-258
  • Board of the "Association for the Care of Photography and Related Arts in Frankfurt a. M. “: (Kurzer Nekrolog), in: Photographische Correspondenz , Vol. 44, 1907, pp. 349-350.

literature

  • Pictures make people. The staging of people in photography , published by the Landesmuseum Koblenz, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2170-7 , pp. 211–212 ( online PDF )
  • Günther H. Oettinger: The Kingdom of Württemberg 1806-1918: Monarchy and Modernity , Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2006
  • Joachim W. Siener: From the masked sleigh ride to the court photographer. Die Photographie and Stuttgart 1839-1900 , Cantz, Stuttgart 1989. ISBN 3-89322-150-6 .
  • Ursula Peters: Style history of photography in Germany: 1839-1900 , DuMont, Cologne 1979, ISBN 978-3770111596 , p. 263
  • Walter PH Scheffler: Poet portraits in photographs of the 19th century . Volume 11 of Marbacher Schriften, German Literature Archive, 1976

Web links

Commons : Hermann Brandseph  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Photographic Journals  - Sources and Full Texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurzer Nekrolog, in: Photographische Correspondenz , Vol. 44, 1907, pp. 349-350. There are different life dates for his "teacher" C. Ofen: The Royal Collection Trust has numerous photographs (220 pieces, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.royalcollection.org.uk%2Fsearch%2Fsite%2FBackofen%3Fpage%3D1~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ% 3D ~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D ) by "Carl Ofen (1853-1909)". The "Stadtlexikon Darmstadt" names in the chapter "Photography in Darmstadt" "Karl Ofen (1845-1926)", ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.darmstadt-stadtlexikon.de%2Ff%2Ffotografie-in-darmstadt.html~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ% 3D ~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D ).
  2. ↑ a b c d Hermann Brandseph (Nekrolog). In: Photographic Chronicle
  3. ↑ a b Pictures make people , 2008, p. 211.
  4. ^ Rainer Bunz: Citizenship and Piety , Tredition, Hamburg, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8424-2324-4 , p. 209
  5. ↑ Otto Borst: Württemberg: Geschichte und Gestalt eines Landes , Stadler, 1978, ISBN 978-3797700360 , p. 112
  6. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / search.iisg.nl
  7. ↑ Photographische Correspondenz , vol. 39, 1902, p. 110
  8. ↑ R. Neuhauss u. E. Juhl : Photographische Rundschau , 14th year, Wilhelm Knapp, Halle / S., 1900, 9th issue, (last page without numbering), ( online ).
  9. ↑ Eberhard Fritz: Servant, coachman, cook, valet, king. On the social history of the royal court in Württemberg (1806 to 1918). In: Journal for Württemberg State History 66/2007. Pp. 249-292, digitized
personal data
SURNAME Brandseph, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandsef, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portraitist as well as landscape and architecture photographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1907