Julius Söhn

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The Julius Söhn store at Kasernenstrasse 22 in Düsseldorf (before 1918)
Listing from 1902

Adolf Julius Söhn (* 1868 in Saarlouis ; † 1943 in Düsseldorf ) was a Düsseldorf photographer , "who was allowed to use the designation court photographer , opened his first studio in 1893".

Life

Julius Söhn founded a photo studio in Düsseldorf in 1892. Around 1902 his studio was located at Kasernenstrasse 22, where he offered photographs of "Düsseldorf views" as well as the production of "advertising signs" and became a court photographer for the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen house .

In June 1893 Julius Söhn had married Augusta Amalie Josephine Jansen (1868–1943), who was a granddaughter of the Düsseldorf painter Peter Schwingen (1813–1863). The sons Oskar (1897–1978), Julius and Gerhart emerged from the marriage. Söhn made a dedication copy for the Düsseldorf industrial and commercial exhibition for Grand Duke Friedrich von Baden . Together with his son Oskar, Julius Söhn was commissioned to document the exhibition Creative People in 1937 .

The photo of the unrestored Schwingen self-portrait

The painter Peter Schwingen belonged to Söhn's family by marriage . Two photographs of a lost self-portrait Schwingen, which show the condition of the painting before and after the restoration, have been preserved in the Peter Schwingen Archive. Julius Söhn documented the paintings by Schwingen accessible to him, especially the portraits of the Schwingen family, so that his archive is an important source for Schwingen research. For his part, Söhn was portrayed by the painter Franzjosef Klemm .

Julius Söhn's estate was purchased by the Düsseldorf City Archives in 1975. Of the approximately 2200 glass plates with Düsseldorf motifs from the period up to around 1930, paper prints were made by the Landesbildstelle that can be used in the archive. In the meantime, the Söhn photo collection has been digitized.

The Foto-Söhn business is still run by family members in Düsseldorf. It has been located at Flinger Strasse 20 since 1959 .

reception

"... that Julius Söhn can be regarded as one of the most important Düsseldorf photographers not only because of his role as city chronicler, but also because of the artistic quality of his work."

- Götz Middeldorf in Neue Rhein / Neue Ruhr Zeitung from March 26, 2014

literature

  • Rolf Sachsse : Germany . In: John Hannavy: Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography , Routledge Chapman & Hall 2005, ISBN 0-415-97235-3 , p. 584 (Julius Söhn is named here below the well-known architectural photographer ).
  • Oliver Karnau: Düsseldorf on the Rhine. The architectural and urban redesign of the banks of the Rhine around 1900 , ISBN 3-933749-79-4 , Düsseldorf 2002, online (PDF; 1.2 MB).
  • Udo Mainzer (Ed.): Emil Fahrenkamp 1885–1966: Architect in the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2002. ISBN 978-3-935590-37-2 . P. 583.
  • Jürgen Wiener: The Gesolei and the Düsseldorf architecture of the 20s , JP Bachem, ISBN 3-7616-1445-4 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Götz Middeldorf: The oldest photo of Düsseldorf is over 150 years old. In: NRZ. March 26, 2014, accessed December 25, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Advertisement no. 70: Julius Söhn, court photographer and roof advertising institute, Kasernenstrasse 22, in Düsseldorfer tourist guide, Redemann & Ising, 1902, p. 68
  3. ↑ Kasernenstrasse 24, Söhn, Julius, Hofphotograph , in address book for the municipality of Düsseldorf and the mayor Benrath, 1910, p. 192
  4. ↑ Christoph Heuter, Emil Fahrenkamp: Emil Fahrenkamp 1885-1966: Architect in the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area . Ed .: Udo Mainzer (=  workbook of the Rheinische Denkmalpflege . Volume 59 ). Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2002, ISBN 3-935590-37-7 , p. 583 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Marriage: June 14, 1893 - photographer Julius Söhn and Augusta Jansen, bh , in Bürger-Zeitung for Düsseldorf and the surrounding area, No. 141, from June 20, 1893
  6. ↑ The family of the painter Peter Schwingen: Auguste Amalie Josephine Jansen, married to Adolf Julius Söhn (1868-1943) later court photographer in Düsseldorf; Children: Oskar Sohn, Gerhart Söhn
  7. ^ "Industrial, commercial and art exhibition Düsseldorf 1902" (album)
  8. ↑ muffendorf.net : DIRECTORY OF WORKS
  9. ↑ r-abels-xxl.de : Portraitist of the Düsseldorf Society - The portrait painter Franzjosef Klemm (1883-1959)
  10. ^ Stadtarchiv Düsseldorf, photo archive: Examples from the Söhn collection
  11. ↑ Managing director until 2003 Wolfgang Söhn, photo merchant, Düsseldorf, * 11. July 1931, since 2007 Matteo Pizzaleo , on moneyhouse.de, accessed on March 14, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Son, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Söhn, Adolf Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarlouis
DATE OF DEATH 1943
Place of death Dusseldorf