James Aurig
James Buchanan Aurig (born August 28, 1857 in Guben , † December 19, 1935 in Dresden-Blasewitz ) was a German photographer.
Life
Aurig was born in Guben. He lost his parents at an early age and grew up with a foster family in the Ore Mountains . At the age of 15 he went to Chemnitz as a photographer's assistant . Around 1878 he got a job with the photographer Johannes Schumacher, who had a studio on Tolkewitzer Straße in Dresden. In the same year Aurig married Berta Alma, b. Müller. The marriage has five children.
After Schuhmacher had to give up his business, Aurig worked for various photographers, including in Dresden, and earned his living, for example, by retouching pictures. He was finally employed by the Dresden photographic printing company Römmler & Jonas and also worked for Emil Römmler after he had opened his first “photographic studio” in Johannstadt in 1887 . During this time there were mainly recordings in Dresden and Berlin, but also in Holland, Belgium and Switzerland. In Blasewitz he first opened a wood studio and a “Handlung Photographischer -bedarfs-Artikel” and from 1894 to 1895 had Karl Emil Scherz build his own villa with a daylight studio at Hainstraße 14, today's Justinenstraße 2. Here he took portrait photos, but also wedding photographs. Outside of his studio, Aurig primarily took photographs of current events.
After the turn of the century, he increasingly turned to home portraits, that is, he went with his photographic equipment to the most famous people in the city to portray them. From 1908 the Saxon royal family was also one of his customers. In 1911 King Friedrich August III awarded him . the title of "His Majesty's Court Photographer".
Aurig died in Blasewitz in 1935 and was buried in the family grave on the Tolkewitz urn grove .
Act
After settling in Blasewitz, Aurig mainly took photos in Dresden, especially in the villa suburbs of Blasewitz and Loschwitz . He recorded current events in his pictures, but also took architectural photographs of buildings in Dresden and new villas in Blasewitz, among other things. Like August Kotzsch , Aurig recorded the building of the blue miracle . The few surviving environmental studies by Aurig and photographs of buildings that are about to be demolished are of particular documentary value.
Aurig was one of the most important studio photographers in the Dresden area around 1900. He created, among other things, portraits of politicians, clergymen and professors from Dresden universities: "Until the outbreak of the First World War , James Aurig was the first address for high-quality portraits".
literature
- James Aurig . In: Artists on the Dresden Elbhang . Volume 2. Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden 2007, p. 19.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aurig, James |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aurig, James Buchanan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guben |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1935 |
| Place of death | Dresden-Blasewitz |