Karl Friedrich miracle
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
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)
Similar to his Hanoverian colleague Ludwig Hemmer , Karl Friedrich also produced miracles
- an unexplored number numbered, partly colored and using light pressure produced postcards . So far, a number greater than 1,000 has been identified, for example on interior photos of the still undamaged former Leibnizhaus in Hanover.
- These numbered cards contain historical picture documents from the Hanover region ,
- Photos of soldiers of the German Empire in military maneuvers with cannons on as yet unidentified terrain
- a series of so-called event cards such as the visit of the empress in Linden am Schwarzen Bär or also
- numerous historical motifs from the (today's) Harz National Park and the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Harz water shelf
- Wunder produced an as yet unknown number of postcards without numbering; these were presumably not sold by the photographer and publisher themselves, but rather produced for the respective client who sold the cards for their own account or advertised for themselves .
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
- Adam An-tAthair-Síoraí: Miracles on the page De Animorum Immortalitate , sub- pages Hanover .
Individual evidence
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: Hanover in early photographs 1848-1910 , p. 38
- ↑ see back of this CDV
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: Hanover in early ... (see literature), p. 38
- ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: Hanover in early ... , p. 39 (see section "Literature")
- ↑ Leibnizhaus
- ↑ see for example this number 541 from Berggasthaus Niedersachsen: in Gehrden
- ↑ see for example number 406
- ↑ see, for example, the greeting of Her Majesty the Empress
- ↑ see for example this one from Granethal with the number 2
- ↑ see for example the restaurant with a view of the (today's) Herrenhausen brewery
- ↑ see back of Wilhelm Kretschmer's business card
personal data | |
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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 |