Jean Baptiste Feilner

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Konrad Koch half-length portrait (vignetted), Jean Baptiste Feilner, Braunschweig (undated)
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Jean (Johann, Juan) Baptiste (Baptist) Franz Feilner (* February 12, 1844 in Bremen; † September 29, 1912 in Freiburg iB ) was a photographer, under whose name studios were operated in various cities, and publisher of postcards .

Life

Little is known about the life and work of Jean Baptiste Feilner. His father was the painter, draftsman and later daguerreotypist Johann Everhard Feilner , who was one of the first in Bremen to turn to photography. It is not known whether and what kind of education the son Jean Baptiste had. In 1867 he had applied for a passport to travel to Vienna, possibly to do an apprenticeship with a photographer. In the Bremen address book from 1869, the reference "Photography-Atelier" can be found for the first time after his name. In the following six years the address changed almost annually. A takeover of the father's "company" in 1869, as Fritz Kempe wrote, therefore does not arise. Jean Baptiste Feilner advertised under his own name from the start.

In 1868 Feilner took a portrait photograph of the almost 35-year-old composer Johannes Brahms . Brahms stayed in Bremen on Good Friday 1868 for the first performance of the complete works of his German Requiem .

In spring 1872 he opened a photographic studio in Vienna on Getreidemarkt and in autumn a second one in Mariahilfer Hauptstrasse . It is not known where Feilner actually took photos or where he was represented by surgeons. From the year 1875, the photographer “Johann Feilner” is no longer listed in the directory of names in the Vienna address book. In the same year, Feilner had found or built a practicable studio in Bremen in Wall 185, because he worked at this address until 1883.

In 1878 he entered into a partnership with the photographer Louis Oscar Grienwaldt. Photographic articles were offered under the name “Feilner & Grienwaldt”. The business address was identical to that of Grienwaldt Wall 86's studio . He had run his own studio here since 1864. This business relationship ended in 1883.

In 1873, cousin Hans Jürgen Feilner opened a photographic studio in Oldenburg (or took over an existing one from Johann Everhard Feilner junior). Jean Baptiste Feilner opened a branch here in 1880. There is no information on who ran the branch or whether Feilner worked here for some time.

For a branch like the one Feilner had built up over the years, the authorship of his photographs can hardly be determined.

Jean Baptiste Feilner probably moved to Braunschweig in 1883, the reasons for this are not known. Here he took over the studio as well as the premises, as there is evidence that the photographer Hermann Reuter ran a studio in Wilhelmstrasse 88 in 1876 . The address remained until 1900. The name of his studio is not clear: at the beginning he calls himself “A. Reuter Hofphotograph Successor “, as one could interpret the information on the lapel of some photographs, or does he use his name, as is shown by entries in the address books.

In 1888 JB Feilner sold the Oldenburg branch in order to open a new one in the city of Emden. There he took over the studio of the photographer and painter Bernhard Mateling.

Jean Baptiste Feilner's last entry in the Bremen address book can be found in 1896. The private address was Wall 185 . Reasons for Feilner's departure from Bremen are not known. He also gave up his membership of the Natural Science Association in Bremen . Feilner had applied for a passport for himself and his wife to travel to Italy. The destination is not known. The question of whether this farewell also meant his withdrawal from his work as a photographer must remain unanswered. Feilner was one of the few chain stores. Compared to Wilhelm Höffert , who had set up a network of branches in large German cities, Feilner had limited himself to locations in Lower Saxony.

According to the entries in the Bremen address books, Fritz Krüger, who had been appointed court photographer in the same year, was the buyer of the studio, which was named "Jean Baptiste Feilner Successor, Photographisches Atelier" from 1896. Krüger sold the studio in 1907 to Oscar Ernst Hense, who continued to run it while retaining the name.

In 1899 he applied for a passport again. At that time he was living in Braunschweig as a citizen of Bremen. The destination of his trip was only “abroad”.

Feilner moved to Munich around 1901. According to the address book for the city of Munich, Johann Baptist Feilner lived on Thierschplatz from 1902 to 1906 and on Herzog Rudolfstraße until 1910, as the entries read. There was no entry as the owner or operator of a photographic studio. Then he probably moved to Pöcking. This information can be found in an entry under the patent "DRP 235516 issued on April 27, 1909". Feilner had apparently turned to the development and invention of new photographic techniques. There is another patent: "DRP 252688 issued on March 2, 1911".

From the awards Feilner has received over the years, it can be seen that he was particularly interested in portrait photography. This is also supported by the fact that Feilner had applied for a patent for a special tinting process for portrait vignettes in 1878. According to his own statements, JB Feilner was the court photographer of the Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg .

The majority of the awards Feilner had given on the lapel of his photographs are dated there to the year 1879: Sydney, Naples, Amsterdam, Hanover and Dresden. Feilner also received medals in Melbourne in 1880 and in Hamburg, Frankfurt and Vienna in 1881. Since this information was used for advertising purposes, awards from operators who worked at Feilner were also shown.

There were other members of the Feilner family who were interested in photography. The Bremen address book recorded a photographer Johann Matthias Feilner for the years 1860 and 1861, possibly a son of the printer Franz Feilner. Another son was the painter Hans Jürgen Feilner, who had opened a photographic studio in Oldenburg around 1873. Anna Feilner , who was a daughter of Johann Everhard Feilner junior , achieved greater importance . was. She ran a studio in Oldenburg and her achievements have been honored with numerous awards. From 1912, Alexander Feilner (photochemist) was an entry in the address book of the city of Munich. In 1918 an entry read: “Fa. AE Feilner & Co Fabrication of photographic commodities ”, (owner Alexander Eberhard Feilner (Fkft / M), Karl Seidel and Marie Brandstetter). This will have been the son of JB Feilner.

Jean Baptiste Feilner was married to Charlotte, b. Lemcke (1859-1927). Her daughter Catharine Christine Wilhelmine was born in 1881 and the mentioned son Eberhard Alexander in 1883. Feilner died in Freiburg, last place of residence was Pöcking .

Jean Baptiste Feilner - studios and branches

  • Bremen, with address Wall 154 in 1869, with Obernstrasse 42 in 1870, with Obernstrasse 48 in 1871 and 1872, with Wall 158 in 1873, with Wall 165 in 1874 and in Wall 185 from 1875 to 1883. For those In the following years the address of the studio was Richtweg 6b .
  • Vienna, with addresses at Getreidemarkt 3 and Mariahilfer Hauptstraße (1872–1874)
  • Hanover , Georgstrasse 1 , (1890–1891), Georgstrasse 25 from 1892. From 1893 the photographer Ernst Burgdorf was the owner of "JB Feilner Nachsteiger", from 1900 Bruno Weise.
  • Braunschweig , "southern" Wilhelmstraße 88 and Bohlweg 46, 1st floor , in the period from 1883 to 1911. In 1883, Feilner applied to emigrate from Bremen to Braunschweig. According to the Braunschweig address books, Feilner had taken over the studio of the photographer August Reuter in 1884 and listed it under “A. Reuter Nachf. ”Operated at Wilhelmstrasse 88 until 1900. From 1900 he moved his studio to the first floor at Bohlweg 46. From 1900 to 1902 the photographer Hugo Julius can be proven as managing director. In 1911 he sold the studio to Dietrich Driebe.
  • in Oldenburg Rosenstrasse 29 approx. from 1880 to 1888 and in partnership with August Mohaupt until 1910.
  • Osnabrück, Johannisstrasse 65
  • Borkum , Strandstraße , also in partnership with August Mohaupt
  • Emden in Neuthorstrasse from 1888 to 1892. The painter and photographer Bernhard Mateling had opened a photographic studio in Emden in Neuthorstrasse in 1864. In 1888 it was acquired by Jean Baptiste Feilner and sold in 1892 to Hermann Wilhelm Mohaupt (1866–1909).
  • Jever , Burgstrasse 30 , also in partnership with August Mohaupt, (later sole) owner H. Koch
  • Bonn , Bahnhofstrasse 13 , from 1900 to 1904. The photographic studio of Emil Koch, who had had his studio at Hofgartenstrasse 5 from 1875, had probably existed at Bahnhofstrasse 13 since 1890. Koch was listed on Bahnhofstrasse until 1895. The photographer Hans Schaf (f) was fully active there from 1897 to 1900 inclusive. In the same year, the photographer Georg Gollas (1874–1915) moved from Bregenz to Bonn, “probably to work in the new branch of the Bremen photo specialist Jean Baptiste Feilner”. At the end of 1904 the Bonn studio was taken over by the brothers Carl and Georg Gollas and run under the name "JB Feilner Nachf.".
  • Koblenz , Goebenplatz 12 , from 1904 to 1912. At the end of 1904 Feilner had opened another branch. Carl Gollas worked here from 1905. Georg Gollas probably took over the Koblenz studio in 1912.
  • A studio in Wittmund can still be found around 1895 .

Awards

  • 1876 ​​an "honorable mention" at the photographic exhibition in Paris
  • In 1876 a "Golden Cross" for portraits at the International Art Exhibition (3rd exhibition and bazaar for the art industry) in Utrecht
  • 1877 a "Silver Medal" for best portraits at the "International Exhibition of Photograms" in Amsterdam in the (Vereniging Arti et Amicitiae )
  • 1880 the “Silver Voigtland Medal” of the Photographic Society in Vienna for the collection of artistically executed portrait studies dedicated to the society
  • 1895 a "gold medal" at the state exhibition in Oldenburg

Evidently the reverse of a photograph was the studio "awarded on 14 exhibitions",

  • 1879 in Teplitz at the “Trade and Industry Exhibition” there, Naples and Sydney
  • 1880 in the world exhibition in Melbourne
  • 1881 in (Vienna), Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg
  • 1882 in Paris
  • Hanover, Dresden and London.

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literature

  • Rolf Ahlers, Kurt Dröge, a. a .: The memory of the city: History of photography in Oldenburg (= Lioba Meyer [Hrsg.]: Publications of the Oldenburg City Museum . Volume 64 ). Isensee, Oldenburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89995-908-6 .
  • Harald Goergens, Alfred Löhr: Pictures for everyone . Bremen photography in the 19th century. In: Rosemarie Pohl-Weber, (Ed.): Hefte des Focke-Museum . tape 68 , 1985, pp. 33, 108 .
  • Fritz Kempe: Daguerreotype in Germany. On the charm of early photographs , Seebruck am Chiemsee: Heering, 1979, ISBN 3-7763-5190-X , p. 180
  • Jens Thiele, Detlef Hoffmann (eds.): Lichtbilder, Lichtspiele: Beginnings of Photography and Cinema in East Friesland , Jonas Verlag, Weimar 1989 ISBN 978-3-92256-184-2
  • Address books

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register entry Reg.No. 1240/1912
  2. ↑ Udo Elerd: Greetings from Oldenburg . Early postcards from the collection of the Stadtmuseum, exhibition from January 17 to February 21, 1988. Ed .: Stadt Oldenburg. Isensee, Oldenburg 1988, ISBN 3-920557-76-X , p. 52, 82 .
  3. ↑ This fact allows the conclusion that at first he did not have his own studio in which he could take photographs, but used that of other photographers.
  4. ↑ Daguerreotype in Germany , p. 180
  5. ↑ Brahms without a beard; Brahms Institute in Lübeck acquires an unknown photo. In: Press Service. Brahms Institute at the Musikhochschule Lübeck , December 5, 2013, accessed on October 20, 2018 .
  6. ^ CdV, Sotheby’s auction on October 26, 2017, Brahms, Johannes
  7. ↑ Submitted . In: Wiener Kunsthalle , No. 20, November 13, 1872, p. 157, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DhuKttbAhMtcC~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA157~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D .
  8. ^ In the streets / residents directory of the edition of the Braunschweiger address book from 1882 under Wilhelmstr. 88 the reference to Feilner's studio.
  9. ↑ Thirty-first annual report of the Natural Science Association in Bremen , C. Ed. Müller, Bremen 1896, p. 13, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dabhandlungenhera13natu~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D13~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D .
  10. ↑ Photographische Mitteilungen , Volume 33, 1897, p. 362.
  11. ↑ "Method for producing a grain in copies of ordinary photographic negatives by inserting a thin sheet of paper or the like containing the grain."
  12. ↑ "Process for the production of photographic combination negatives in which a background negative made in collotype on a transparent sheet is used as the background negative"
  13. ↑ In photography one spoke of vignetted recordings, if z. B. in a portrait that only depicted the head, this had been exposed running. Vignetted portraits were a fad.
  14. ↑ Rudolf Biedermann: Technisch Chemisches Jahrbuch 1882-1883 , 5th year, Julius Springer, Berlin 1884, p. 513, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dtechnischchemis05biedgoog~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3Dn528~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D
  15. ^ Julius Schaarwächter: Correspondenz . In: Photographische Mitteilungen , 13th year, Robert Oppenheim, Berlin 1877, p. 231 ff. Digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DZwq2Zd1GgIEC~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA230~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D version, (Schaarwächter complains about Feilner's poor handling of the “truth”.)
  16. ↑ The background slides by A. Feilner & Co in Munich , in Photographische Korrespondenz, vol. 51, 1914, p. 133
  17. ↑ In 1908 Catharine married the singer Heinrich Knote (1870–1953).
  18. ↑ Information taken from the respective Alpahbetischen directory of the inhabitants .
  19. ↑ Hugo Julius had operated a plotographic studio from 1906 in the immediate vicinity at Georgenstrasse 24 .
  20. ↑ Information taken from the address books (commercial and street directory) for Hanover.
  21. ↑ Photographische Chronik , Volume 18, 1911, p. 565.
  22. ^ Aiko Schmidt: Greetings from Emden and East Friesland . early postcards. Ed .: Friedrich Scheele (= Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum Emden [Hrsg.]: Publications of the Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum Emden . Volume 26 ). Isensee, 2008, ISBN 3-89995-564-1 , p. 29 .
  23. ^ Menno Dirks: Emden. New Church. In: Artwork of the Month February 2003 (2). Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum Emden, 2003, accessed on March 23, 2017 .
  24. ↑ Dorfbürgerverein Sandelermöns und Umgebung eV: 20. - Dörpslü - ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on sandelerburg.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sandelerburg.de
  25. ^ Bonn address books
  26. ^ City Archives: Young Man in Ladies' Clothing. In: Zeitfenster July 2014. Stadtarchiv Bonn Presseamt, July 2014, accessed on March 20, 2017 .
  27. ↑ Photographische Korrespondenz , No. 13, 1876, p. 178
  28. ↑ Photographische Korrespondenz , No. 13, 1876, p. 195
  29. ↑ Exhibitions of Photography (1855–1915)
  30. ↑ Photographische Korrespondenz , No. 14, 1877, p. 266
  31. ↑ Photographische Korrespondenz , No. 17, 1880, p. 245
  32. ↑ Photographische Chronik Volume 12, 1905, p. 391
  33. ↑ Revers of a CDV from Koblenz
  34. ↑ Exhibitions of Photography (1855–1915)
  35. ↑ No medal or honorary prize has been awarded to Feilner. Source: List of prizes awarded , in: Photographische Korrespondenz , No. 18, 1881, pp. 93–96

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SURNAME Feilner, Jean Baptiste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feilner, JB; Feilner, Jean Baptiste Franz; Feilner, Juan Baptist Franz; Feilner, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court photographer and postcard publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1912
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau