Karl Friedrich miracle

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Around 1879: early back of Karl F. Wunder’s own “visiting card”
The same map: the newly built Wunder-Haus (left), residential and commercial building of the photographer

Karl Friedrich Wunder (* 1849 in Hanover ; † 1924 there ) was a German photographer , publisher of photo books and photo postcards from Hanover.

Career

Wunder was born in 1849 - the exact date is unknown - and learned photography from his father Friedrich Karl Wunder on the Neuer Weg . He was the second oldest son of the first and most famous Hanoverian photographer of the 19th century. In 1875 he took over his father's business.

In 1878 Karl F. Wunder, like his brother Otto Wunder , took part in the general trade exhibition of the province of Hanover . In the official trade exhibition newspaper it was said: “[…] They are mostly portraits of well-known Hanoverian personalities in impeccable execution. Position, exposure and retouching leave nothing to be desired - even enhanced by the elegant frames from Siegmund Federlein’s factory. "

From 1878 to 1879, Karl Friedrich Wunder had the Wunder-Haus built by the architect Christoph Hehl as his own residential and business headquarters in Hanover. The building was built on Friedrichstrasse (today Friedrichswall 17), which was then the first address. The red brick building in Gothic design was the first bourgeois, four-story building in the street section that was previously dominated by aristocratic palaces . The building opposite the New Town Hall was damaged by the air raids on Hanover during World War II , but its facade was largely preserved and is now a listed building.

At the beginning of the 1880s, Wunder was on the board of the German Photographers Association , the first pan-German interest group for those professionally involved in photography.

At the latest after the introduction of the telephone in Hanover in 1887, Karl F. Wunder ran a "branch in Leipzig under the Georg Brokesch company ".

From 1886 to 1889 Wunder was a trainer for Waldemar Titzenthaler .

The photo business “ did not survive the economic difficulties of the inflationary years”.

Like his brother Otto  , Karl was buried next to his parents in a family grave acquired in 1869 in the Engesohde cemetery .

Works

Portrait photograph of the Low German book collector Martin Börsmann ;
Carte de visite , Atelier Wunder

Due to the takeover of his father's business in 1875 and the glass negatives available there, not all photos - later dated - can be attributed to Karl Friedrich, but some of them can still be attributed to his father.

The advancing photo technology made shorter exposures and whole series of

  • Momentary recordings in which moving objects can still be clearly recognized.
  • He produced the photo book Hanover - 26 views based on artistic photographs as well
  • numerous photo illustrations , such as in Adolf Kiepert's book Hanover in words and pictures (see literature)
Moonlight card (postcard number 5 ) with Georgstrasse ; in light printing manufactured by Knackstedt & Näther in Hamburg

Similar to his Hanoverian colleague Ludwig Hemmer , Karl Friedrich also produced miracles

Listing of the “awards” on a visiting card from Wilhelm Kretschmer

Awards

Wunder was "awarded" several times

literature

  • Ludwig Hoerner : Hanover in early photographs 1848–1910 . Hanover 1979.
  • Adolf Kiepert : Hanover in words and pictures, text by Adolf Kiepert, ed. by the Association for the Promotion of Tourism in Hanover, with 286 illustrations based on original paintings and original drawings by Diekmann ... as well as based on original photographs . (Reprint of the edition.) Hannover, Kiepert, 1910, 2nd edition Schlütersche, Hannover 1981, ISBN 3-87706-181-8 , with numerous photographs by Karl F. Wunder

Web links

Commons : Karl Friedrich Wunder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Adam An-tAthair-Síoraí: Miracles on the page De Animorum Immortalitate , sub- pages Hanover .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ludwig Hoerner: Photography and Photographers in Hanover and Hildesheim. Festschrift for the 150th birthday of photography . Issued by the photographer's Innungen Hannover and Hildesheim , prepared in Berufsförderungswerk Bad Pyrmont in the occupations brief, reprophotography platemaking, planographic printing and bookbinding in the context of retraining, 1989, p 12
  2. ^ Ludwig Hoerner: Photography and Photographers in Hanover and Hildesheim. Festschrift for the 150th birthday of photography . Issued by the photographer's Innungen Hannover and Hildesheim , prepared in Berufsförderungswerk Bad Pyrmont in the occupations brief, reprophotography platemaking, planographic printing and bookbinding in the context of retraining, 1989, p 11
  3. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: Hanover in early photographs 1848-1910 , p. 38
  4. ↑ see back of this CDV
  5. ↑ Landesarchiv Berlin on the Waldemar Titzenthaler Collection : landesarchiv-berlin.de ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landesarchiv-berlin.de
  6. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: Hanover in early ... (see literature), p. 38
  7. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: Hanover in early ... , p. 39 (see section "Literature")
  8. ↑ Leibnizhaus
  9. ↑ see for example this number 541 from Berggasthaus Niedersachsen: in Gehrden
  10. ↑ see for example number 406
  11. ↑ see, for example, the greeting of Her Majesty the Empress
  12. ↑ see for example this one from Granethal with the number 2
  13. ↑ see for example the restaurant with a view of the (today's) Herrenhausen brewery
  14. ↑ see back of Wilhelm Kretschmer's business card
personal data
SURNAME Wonder, Karl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 1924
Place of death Hanover