Jenny Bossard-Biow

Family at the coffee table. Daguerreotype by Jenny Bossard, 1849

Jenny Bossard-Biow also Johanna Louise Agnes (born April 30, 1813 in Breslau ; † after 1858) was one of the first women in Germany to make daguerreotypes .

Johanna Bossard-Biow was born as the daughter of the painter Raphael Biow (1771–1836). She was the sister of the painter and daguerreotypist Hermann Biow , who trained her from 1844. During his absence she took over the management of the studio. In 1836 your father Raphael Biow had hired an assistant named "Heinrich Boshardt". After the death of her father, Heinrich Boshardt took over and continued the business. At that time Johanna Biow and Heinrich Boshardt had probably married. After the separation of the marriage (1841), she married the photographer Julius Schlegel in 1850, with whom she also worked for a while. What happened to the studio after the death of her brother Hermann Biow in February 1850 is not known. In 1851, the former officer in the Schleswig-Holstein army , August Mencke, moved into the studio and reported as a photography institute. Johanna Bossard-Biow was found in Hamburg as late as 1858.

literature

Jochen Schmidt-Liebich: Lexicon of women artists 1700–1900. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11694-2 , p. 58
Tilo Grabach: Bossard-Biow, Jenny. In: General Artist Lexicon. Volume 13, Saur, Munich and Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-598-22753-1 (volume 13), ISBN 3-598-22740-X (complete works), p. 200
Wilhelm Weimar : The Daguerreotype in Hamburg 1839-1860 (1st supplement to the yearbook of the Hamburg Scientific Institutions, XXXII, 1914,) Verlag Otto Meissner, Hamburg, 1915

Remarks

^ Wilhelm Weimar: The Daguerreotype in Hamburg 1839-1860 , p. 21
↑ In the Hamburg address book, entries for “H. Biow, portrait painter, Neuer Wall 52 “(until 1844 No. 24) from 1844 to 1850 inclusive.
↑ Günther Meinert : Heinrich Boshardt, a painter of the 19th century , in: Art and Preservation in Silesia: Lower Silesia, publisher Flemming, Wroclaw-Lissa 1939, pp 174-182, Digitalisat
↑ Other spelling: Bossard.
↑ From his marriage to Bossard came the son Raphael Bossard (1839–1907), who later bore the name "Schlegel" and who had settled in Elberfeld in 1863 as a photographer. (Literature: R. Schlegel (Nekrolog), in Photographische Chronik , 14. Jg., 1907, p. 471).
↑ 23.07.1850 Wandsb. , see Peter Dörling, Norderstedt / Germany, 2004, genealogy Stormarn, name index women letter Bi - Bo , ( digitized ). Deviating from this: "... Mrs. Bossard, who married Julius Schlegel for the second time in 1849, ...", Wilhelm Weimar: Die Daguerreotype in Hamburg 1839-1860 , p. 22.
↑ From 1851 an entry "Carl Julius Schlegel" (information on profession: clerk ) was to be found in the Hamburg address books, from 1855 to 1857 as a commodity broker (for coffee etc.). No further entries followed. A photographer Julius Schlegel had opened a photographic studio in Reichenberg in 1858 and then branches in Zittau and Böhmisch-Leipa . (Literature: 153 Schlegel Julius , in: Official catalog of the exhibition of the kingdoms and states of Austria represented in the Reichsrathe . Group XII, Section V. Photographs, Verlag der General-Direction, Vienna 1873, p. 353)
^ Wilhelm Weimar: The Daguerreotype in Hamburg 1839-1860 , p. 44.
↑ Whether Johanna Bossard-Biow, with her extensive knowledge, worked in the studio for a few years is conceivable, but not proven.
↑ This assumption is based on the fact that she experienced or initiated the auction of her brother Hermann Biow's studio estate on March 4, 1858: Fritz Kempe: Daguerreotype in Germany. On the charm of early photography , Seebruck am Chiemsee, Heering, 1979, pp. 110–111.

Web links

Klaus Ungerer: The attraction of ruins. In: Welt am Sonntag . November 9, 2003

personal data
SURNAME	Bossard-Biow, Jenny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Boshard, Jenny; Boshard, Johanna; Biow, Jenny (maiden name); Biow, Johanna (maiden name); Schlegel, Johanna (name during second marriage)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	probably the first woman in Germany to learn the craft of photography
DATE OF BIRTH	April 30, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH	after 1858

[1] Wilhelm Weimar: The Daguerreotype in Hamburg 1839-1860 , p. 21

[2] In the Hamburg address book, entries for “H. Biow, portrait painter, Neuer Wall 52 “(until 1844 No. 24) from 1844 to 1850 inclusive.

[3] Günther Meinert : Heinrich Boshardt, a painter of the 19th century , in: Art and Preservation in Silesia: Lower Silesia, publisher Flemming, Wroclaw-Lissa 1939, pp 174-182, Digitalisat

[4] Other spelling: Bossard.

[5] From his marriage to Bossard came the son Raphael Bossard (1839–1907), who later bore the name "Schlegel" and who had settled in Elberfeld in 1863 as a photographer. (Literature: R. Schlegel (Nekrolog), in Photographische Chronik , 14. Jg., 1907, p. 471).

[6] 23.07.1850 Wandsb. , see Peter Dörling, Norderstedt / Germany, 2004, genealogy Stormarn, name index women letter Bi - Bo , ( digitized ). Deviating from this: "... Mrs. Bossard, who married Julius Schlegel for the second time in 1849, ...", Wilhelm Weimar: Die Daguerreotype in Hamburg 1839-1860 , p. 22.

[7] From 1851 an entry "Carl Julius Schlegel" (information on profession: clerk ) was to be found in the Hamburg address books, from 1855 to 1857 as a commodity broker (for coffee etc.). No further entries followed. A photographer Julius Schlegel had opened a photographic studio in Reichenberg in 1858 and then branches in Zittau and Böhmisch-Leipa . (Literature: 153 Schlegel Julius , in: Official catalog of the exhibition of the kingdoms and states of Austria represented in the Reichsrathe . Group XII, Section V. Photographs, Verlag der General-Direction, Vienna 1873, p. 353)

[8] Wilhelm Weimar: The Daguerreotype in Hamburg 1839-1860 , p. 44.

[9] Whether Johanna Bossard-Biow, with her extensive knowledge, worked in the studio for a few years is conceivable, but not proven.

[10] This assumption is based on the fact that she experienced or initiated the auction of her brother Hermann Biow's studio estate on March 4, 1858: Fritz Kempe: Daguerreotype in Germany. On the charm of early photography , Seebruck am Chiemsee, Heering, 1979, pp. 110–111.