Károly Koller (photographer)

Károly Koller (also Carl or Karl, born January 28, 1838 in Hermannstadt , Austrian Empire ; died November 26, 1889 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ) was an Austro-Hungarian photographer.

Life

Theodor Glatz and Karl Koller: Transylvanian folk costumes

Artúr Halmi drew the Kuk portrait session in Atelier Koller with the two owners Román Forché and István Gálfy (1898)

Carl Koller attended the German grammar school in Sibiu, where he was also a student of the drawing teacher Theodor Glatz , with whom he worked closely in the following years and ran a joint studio. From 1856 to 1859 he attended the Polytechnic and the Art Academy in Vienna , worked from 1859 to 1871 as a drawing teacher in Bistritz and also devoted himself to painting and photography. With Glatz he published two albums with Transylvanian personalities and Transylvanian costumes in 1862 . From 1866 he was a member of the Photographic Society in Vienna.

When Glatz died in 1871, Koller quit his teaching job, continued Glatz's photo studio in Herrmannstadt and immediately set up branches in Kolozsvár and Marosvásárhely . In 1873 he handed the company over to Glatz's niece Camilla Asbóth (1838–1908), who thus probably became the first independent photographer in Transylvania.

In 1874 he took photos in the royal Hungarian residence Gödöllő and received the title of court photographer . At the world exhibition in Vienna he received an award for his photographs of people from the Bistritz region , for portraits of women and especially for his chromophotographs . In 1875 he opened a studio in Budapest under his Magyarized name , in which he employed up to 30 people. At first, the painter and photographer József Borsos worked in the studio.

In the Budapest noble society of Austria-Hungary, Koller was able to win many customers and also portrayed members of the imperial family. A planned move to Klagenfurt no longer came about. After his death, his longtime collaborators Román Forché and István Gálfy continued to run the Koller studio in Budapest until 1908. Among his students were Károly Zelesny , Fred Boissonnas and Alexandru Roșu .

literature

Konrad Klein: photo ethnologist. Theodor Glatz and the early ethnographic photography in Transylvania. In: Photo history . Issue 103, 2007, pp. 23–45, short biography on Koller p. 38 f.

Web links

Commons : Károly Koller - collection of pictures

Literature by and about Károly Koller in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Koller Karoly , at: Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b K. Kincses: Glatz, Theodor . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 56, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22796-7 , pp. 65 f. (Reading sample books.google.de ).
^ Glatz, Theodor (Tivadar) . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 243 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Konrad Klein: Photo ethnologists. 2007.

personal data
SURNAME	Koller, Károly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Koller, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austro-Hungarian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 28, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sibiu , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	November 26, 1889
Place of death	Budapest , Austria-Hungary

[AKLGlatz-1] K. Kincses: Glatz, Theodor . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 56, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22796-7 , pp. 65 f. (Reading sample books.google.de ).

[2] Glatz, Theodor (Tivadar) . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 243 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[Klein-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Konrad Klein: Photo ethnologists. 2007.