Josef Loewy

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Josef Löwy (born August 16, 1834 in Pressburg , † March 24, 1902 in Vienna ) was a painter , publisher , manufacturer and kuk court photographer .

Josef Loewy

Life

Josef Löwy moved to Vienna in 1848, where he learned to lithograph . Then studied at the Vienna Academy in the painting class. He opened his first room studio in Vienna in 1856. In 1859 he moved to a new studio. One of his occupied rooms was in Weihburggasse 31, 1st district . In 1861 he joined the Photographic Society in Vienna and in 1864 took part in the first photographic exhibition in Vienna. From 1866 to 1873 he had a summer studio in Baden near Vienna . Since 1872 he dealt with collotype printing and he founded a studio for industrial photography in the Vienna district of Landstrasse.

In 1873 Löwy became a member of the Vienna Photographers Association , which was founded on the occasion of the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 . This had the license to produce images in the exhibition area. In the same year he was appointed court photographer for his photographic achievements at the world exhibition .

Among other things, his industrial photographs and the heliographies created from the 1880s onwards have become known. In 1885 he founded a drying board company with the amateur photographer Josef Plener. During his career, Löwy has turned his company into an internationally known reproduction company with a photo publisher. The focus of his photography was portraits, Viennese architecture, art and nude photography. His company was continued by the widow Mathilde Löwy and taken over in 1908 by the nephew Gustav Löwy under the name "Kunstanstalt J. Löwy".

Works

Löwy published a variety of books:

Awards

literature

  • Durstmüller:  Löwy Josef. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1972, p. 296 f. (Direct links on p. 296 , p. 297 ).
  • Exhibit world . Editor Technisches Museum Wien, pp. 110–111, contributions by: Ulrike Felber, Manuela Fellner-Feldhaus and Elke Krasny German / English, ISBN 3-902183-10-1
  • Anton Bettelheim, Georg Reimer: Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog , Volume 7 (1905), pp. 170–171, 509.

Web links

Commons : Josef Löwy  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Hermann Vogel (Ed.): Photographische Mitteilungen , 10th year, 9th issue, Robert Oppenheim, Berlin, 1974, Personalnachrichten, p. 240.
  2. ↑ Photographische Korrespondenz , 12th vol., 175, p. 81
personal data
SURNAME Löwy, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter, kuk court photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1902
Place of death Vienna