Julius Grimm (photographer)

Julius Grimm at his telescope

Julius Grimm (* 1842 in Innsbruck , † 1906 in Offenburg ) was an Austrian photographer and astronomer who worked in Germany.

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Moon painting by Julius Grimm from 1895, oil on canvas, 2.2 × 2.2 m, painting collection of the University of Tübingen

Julius Grimm founded a photographic company in Offenburg in 1873. There he made astronomical recordings as well as enlargements of plant and animal objects and received numerous prizes and awards. He made micro and macro photographs for scientific works and atlases, some of which were also reproduced using collotype printing . In his studio and art institute he ran an astronomical and photographic observatory.

Grimm telescope in front of a moon painting, special exhibition "Heaven - ideal and understanding of the world", Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT, 2011

In 1895 he made a large oil painting of the moon's surface, as shown through a telescope, i.e. rotated by 180 °. In the 1970s it hung in Professor Wolf von Engelhardt's office in the Mineralogical Institute of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and is now on display as part of the exhibition at the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT in the knight's hall of Hohentübingen Castle .

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1. ↑ Frank Dürr: A studio as an astronomical laboratory: How an oil painting found its way back to its obstetrician. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt. January 21, 2009, archived from the original on February 6, 2015 ; accessed on January 3, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Oliver Elbs and Udo Neumann: Thirty-eight things: Treasures from the natural and cultural science collections of the University of Tübingen . Museum of the University of Tübingen.
3. ^ Moonshadows.

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Commons : Julius Grimm  - collection of images, videos and audio files