Joseph Samhaber
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Joseph Samhaber (born June 19, 1833 in Fürth ; † February 13, 1893 in Aschaffenburg ) was a German painter and photographer . He was appointed Royal Bavarian Court Photographer on March 15, 1892.
Life
Samhaber was a son of the appellate judge and member of the state parliament Konrad Samhaber and his wife Josephine, geb. Wine grower. He worked as a real teacher and photographer.
In his first marriage he was with Anna Margaretha Constantina, geb. Stenger, married. The connection resulted in the son Constantin , who later took over the photo studio and also became a court photographer. After the death of his first wife in 1861, Joseph Samhaber married her sister Anna Aloisa Eleonore Stenger. The first child from this connection was the later lieutenant general Franz Samhaber . He was born in 1863. Another son followed in 1864, who died in infancy, 1867 the son Joseph Maria August, 1868 the daughter Anna Augusta, 1869 the son Otto Franz Samhaber , who was also to embark on a career in photography and work in Zweibrücken . The last two children, a daughter and a son, each died a few days after birth. In 1865, the brochure Die Bauornamente der alle Jahrhundert on buildings of the k. C. City of Aschaffenburg. Renaissance period. 15. Delivery by Martin Balduin Kittel . Samhaber contributed the photos, but at the time he was still referred to as a "teacher of freehand drawing". A recording of the Aschaffenburg Pompejanum , which Samhaber made around 1860/70, was published again in 1993. Joseph Samhaber documented streets and prominent buildings in his area, but also created portraits etc. in his studio. He also ran a postcard publisher.
He had his photo studio at times in Alexandrastrasse in Aschaffenburg. But there are also photographs of Samhaber, on the back of which the address Bahnhofstrasse is given. Shortly before his death, he was honored for his services by being appointed court photographer.
His successor Constantin Samhaber worked temporarily with Albert Kämmer . In 1908 it was reported in the Photographische Chronik that Samhaber had left the company "Hofphotograph Samhaber & Kämmer" and that his companion would continue the business under the company "Samhaber & Kämmer" alone. However, Kämmer went to Mainz as early as 1910 , where he apparently no longer traded under this name and from 1933 ran the Capitol cinema .
Later Samhaber, who stayed in Aschaffenburg, apparently had an employee named Otto Hesse, who took over the studio in 1936 and moved it to Steingasse 20. Otto Hesse's descendants continue to run the photo studio, meanwhile at Steingasse 17.
literature
- Wolfgang Brückner : Extremely hit and beautiful. Historical photography in Lower Franconia [companion volume to the exhibition of the same name by the Institute for German Philology at the University, the District of Lower Franconia and the City of Würzburg from October 25 to November 30, 1989 in the Greising houses in Würzburg]. Würzburg: Echter 1989, pp. 151-153.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Appell, Jews in Erlangen. Volume I. A-D. Family book of the Jewish families from Erlangen, Bruck and Büchenbach , self-published. Last update May 2019 ( digitized version )
- ↑ See the bibliographical information on tkb.bookmaps.org .
- ↑ Messages from the Aschaffenburg City and Abbey Archives , special issue Volume 4, Issue 2, June 1993, p. 164 ( digitized version )
- ↑ a b story on foto-studio-hesse.de
- ↑ Joseph Samhaber on www.fotorevers.eu
- ↑ Photographische Chronik 1908, p. 202 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Capitol on www.allekinos.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Samhaber, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Samhaber, Joseph Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fuerth |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1893 |
| Place of death | Aschaffenburg |