Joseph Albert (photographer)

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Joseph Albert, photograph by Alois Locher, around 1850

Joseph Albert (born March 5, 1825 in Munich ; † May 5, 1886 there ) was a German photographer and inventor. He was the court photographer of the Bavarian royal family, developed collotype significantly and invented color collotype.

Life

Grave of Joseph Albert in the old southern cemetery in Munich

After studying physics and chemistry, Albert opened a photo studio in Augsburg in 1850 . He further developed collotype printing, the first photomechanical printing process, through the use of glass plates.

Albert was appointed "court photographer" of the Bavarian royal family in 1857 and returned to Munich in 1858 after separating from his wife, where he acquired citizenship. He portrayed the royal family, especially King Ludwig II , and documented his numerous building projects and took photo trips to his castles. He also dealt with the reproduction of graphics and paintings.

He equipped his studio house with a solar camera from court photographer Jacob Wothly . Jacob Wothly and Joseph Albert inspired Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer to create his fictional character Wilbert .

In 1860 the chemist and later inventor Johann Baptist Obernetter joined Albert's studio.

In 1867 he photographed King Ludwig II of Bavaria at the age of 22.>

In a photographic exhibition in Hamburg in 1868 he exhibited his photographs under the name Albertotype . He ran an art publisher, a photographic printing company and in 1873 had 50 employees. Color light printing followed as a further development in 1876.

Joseph Albert first married Maria Anna Deuringer in 1853 (Augsburg, August 3, 1826 to February 14, 1910). The marriage lasted only 15 years and divorced in 1877/78. A year later Joseph Albert remarried to Pauline Schlosser from Munich, the daughter of a magistrate officer (Munich-Hirschau, June 30, 1842 to March 16, 1913). After the death of her husband, the widow was allowed to continue to use the title of court photographer. In 1895, the royal court art dealer Adalbert Roeper (* 1863–?) Became co-owner of the company.

The son of the first marriage, Eugen Albert (1856–1929), followed in his father's footsteps and founded the Photographische Union in 1882 . In addition, he further developed the reproductive technology up to offset printing.

Portrait

  • in: Photographische Korrespondenz 23, 1886.
  • Munich, Deutsches Museum, portrait collection.
  • A drawing from Albert's studio: Stadtmuseum München (see Fig. In: Münchener Mosai k, year 1939, May issue).

tomb

Joseph Albert's grave is located in the Old Southern Cemetery in Munich (Wall right, place 15/16 at Gräberfeld 2 - location ). Several members of the Albert family as well as Joseph Albert's son Eugen Albert are in this grave .

gallery

Awards

  • Medal "For valuable reproductions of paintings and works of art" at the International Exhibition for Photographic Images in London (1862?)
  • kuk court photographer
  • Large gold medal for art and science from Franz Joseph I , Emperor of Austria
  • Bronze Medal for Reproductions (5th Dept.); Awards for photographs and photographic equipment at the Paris World's Fair in 1867
  • Honorary membership of the Vienna Photography Society December 18, 1868
  • Gold medal of the Hamburg Exhibition for Photography 1868
  • Medal, Paris 1870
  • Prussian Order of the Crown, fourth class
  • 1874 Knight's Cross of the Austrian Franz Joseph Order

Employee

  • Julius Adam
  • Ludwig Fröschle
  • Anton Meier
  • Friedrich Radl

literature

Secondary literature

  • N / A: Albert's new printing process . In Hermann Vogel (Ed.): Photographische Mitteilungen , 6th year, Robert Oppenheim, Berlin 1870, p. 154ff.
  • August Albert: Technical guide through the reproduction processes and their designations , Wilhelm Knapp, Halle / S. 1908 ( online , University of Michigan), (Albertotype) p. 7, (collotype) p. 145, (collotype, unchangeable) p. 158, (prismatic photography) p. 239.
  • Hermann Krone : The Albert'sche collotype , in: Hermann Krone (Hrsg.): Helios , Hermann Krone phot. Kunst-Verlag, Leipzig 1870, pp. 89–92.

Web links

Commons : Joseph Albert  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Wikisource: Journals (photography)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detailed description in the article by Hermann Hochfeldt in the Photographische Correspondenz.
  2. ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 14, Leipzig 1908, p. 867; online via Zeno.org
  3. ↑ beyars.com: Beyars art dictionary on albertotype
  4. ^ NN: Vienna World Exhibition , Official Catalog of the Exhibition of the German Empire , Berlin 1873, p. 440.
  5. ↑ prices . In: Paul E. Liesegang (ed.): Photographisches Archiv , 3rd vol., Theobald Grieben, Berlin 1862, p. 177.
  6. ↑ Titling in the message about the Great Gold Medal
  7. ↑ Paul E. [Duard] Liesegang (ed.): A photographic archive , the fifth born, Theobald greaves, Berlin, 1864, p.274..
  8. ↑ Photographische Correspondenz , 4th year, 1867, p. 195.
  9. ↑ Hermann Vogel (ed.): Photographische Mitteilungen , 5th vol., Louis Gerschel, Berlin 1869, p. 245 and 268.
  10. ^ Hermann Vogel (ed.): Photographische Mitteilungen , 5th vol., Louis Gerschel, Berlin 1869, p. 248
  11. ↑ Bulletin de la Société Française de Photographie , Tome Dix-Septième, (17th vol.), 1871, Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1871, p. 10
  12. ↑ Photographische Mittheilungen , 8th vol., 1872, p. 52.
  13. ↑ a b c Paul E. [duard] Liesegang (Ed.): Photographisches Archiv , 14th year, Theobald Grieben, Berlin 1873, p. 145.
  14. ↑ GND 117762008
personal data
SURNAME Albert, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albert, Joseph Max Simon Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1886
Place of death Munich