Leonard Berlin-Bieber

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Leonard Berlin (born November 18, 1841 in Altona , † February 4, 1931 in Hamburg ) was a German photographer with studios in Hamburg and Berlin .

"Prof. L. Berlin, autotype by Angerer & Göschl "(1902)

Life

Leonard Berlin was born in Altona in 1841, where his father Julius Berlin worked as an accountant. In the 1849 edition of the Hamburg address book, Julius Berlin can be found with the address Horse Market 21. In the spring of 1854 the family moved to live with his sister-in-law Emilie Bieber in Hamburg. Bäckerstrasse 26 ". Adelgunde Koetgen, with whom Emilie Bieber had opened the daguerreotype studio, had moved out with her family. Two years later, in 1857, Julius Bieber moved out with his family, but stayed in the immediate vicinity. The business must have flourished, because in May 1861 Julius Berlin rented a “ Comptoir ” in a prominent Hamburg location at 9 Jungfernstieg.

Leonard Berlin entered his aunt Emilie Bieber's studio in 1862. With the death of Emilie Bieber in May 1884, Leonard Berlin became the sole owner of the E. Bieber studio.

In 1887 he was awarded the title of Professor by Ernst II Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . This was followed by further awards from the Duodec principality : court photographer, Saxon-Ernestine house order, 2nd class, and appointment to court councilor. In 1890 he opened a second studio under the same name - albeit in Berlin. In 1892 he moved with the family to Berlin. The Berlin studio E. Bieber was held in high esteem. “Man” liked to be photographed at Bieber's. In 1910 the general partnership “E. Bieber, photographic studio in Hamburg and Berlin ”dissolved. Even in retirement (from 1910) Leonard Berlin initially remained connected to his profession, for example he was a curator for the Royal Photographic Educational Institutions in Berlin and was a member of the Hamburg and Prussian Chamber of Experts for Works of Fine Arts (1916).

In 1865 Leonard Berlin married Marianne Meyer from Copenhagen in Hamburg.

E. Bieber's photographic studio

In Hamburg

Leonard Berlin first appeared in 1868 as a temporary member of the exhibition commission for the second photographic exhibition.

Leonard Berlin had presumably already assumed responsibility for the work in the studio several years earlier when he became the owner of the E. Bieber photographic studio in Hamburg after the death of his aunt Emilie Bieber in 1884. Because in the following year Berlin was awarded a medal of merit. Numerous orders and other awards followed at short intervals.

In 1890, Leonard Berlin opened another E. Bieber photographic studio in the capital of the Reich . It was not uncommon for photographers to operate or leave several studios of the same name in operation. In Hamburg, Arnold Mocsigay stood by Leonard Berlin's side as a reliable operator. Under his leadership, the studio with around 30 employees survived the time when Hamburg was ravaged by the cholera epidemic. Arnold Mocsigay left the studio in 1897.

In Berlin

Although Leonard Berlin-Bieber was one of the most successful photographers in Berlin at the turn of the century, had a studio at a prominent address and photographed an illustrious company, little information was published and / or made known. In 1891 the first entry can be found in a Berlin address book: “E. Bieber, court photographer, Leipziger Strasse 128, owner Prof. Leonard Berlin ”. The studio on the ground floor of the house had a telephone connection. In 1892 the entry “Kgl. Bayer. ”And in the following year that of a“ Herzogl. Sächs. ”Court photographers added. In 1895 Prof. Leonard Berlin expanded his offer: "Portrait photography, platinotype , enlargements of small, even faded pictures up to life size, miniatures on ivory , artistic execution in oil, watercolor and pastel colors." In 1896 Prof. Leonard Berlin showed one for the first time Second studio on the ground floor of the building at Friedrichstrasse 176, also with a telephone connection. It stayed with this one ad. His private apartment was at Wilhelmstrasse 55, later at Mohrenstrasse 7. On September 16, 1902, the E. Bieber photographic atelier celebrated its 50th anniversary. From 1907 the address was Leipziger Strasse 130. Leonard Berlin had lived at Vossstrasse 17 for several years and had moved to Kantstrasse 103 in 1908.

Awards

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Appointment as court photographer

Awards

  • Medal of Merit for Art and Science 1885 (Saxony-Ernestine House Order).
  • Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order , Knight II Class, 1885.
  • Professor (title), conferred in 1887 by Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  • First class medal at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition in August 1888.
  • Cross of Merit for Art and Science (Saxony-Ernestine House Order) 1888.
  • Bronze medal (1st department: portrait, landscape and architecture) for E. Bieber for portraits on the occasion of the photographic anniversary exhibition in Berlin in 1889
  • Diplome d 'honneur, Antwerp 1894 (not verified)
  • Order of Art and Science First Class by the Shah of Persia in 1902.
  • Order of the Italian Crown 1903.
  • Ducal Saxon court councilor
  • Prince Leopold of Bavaria presented a bosom pin with initials in diamonds and sapphires with a gold crown in 1913.
  • Silver Prize at the World Exhibition for Book Trade and Graphics in Leipzig in 1914.

Memberships

  • Photographic Association in Berlin in June 1895.
    • Shop steward in the legal protection association of German photographers (RVDPh.) 1898.
  • Photographic Society in Vienna in June 1884.
  • Association for the care of photography and related arts in Frankfurt a. M .: Admitted as an extraordinary member on May 7, 1894.

Succession

The Hamburg studio was taken over by the son Emil Bieber , who had been a partner since 1902. His recordings were highly valued. In 1938 he left Hamburg to protect himself and his family from persecution. The Berlin branch was taken over in 1910 by the businessman Julius Rosenberg, who was appointed kk court photographer in 1918. The E. Bieber photo studio at Leipziger Strasse 124 in Berlin existed until 1929.

literature

  • Wilfried Weinke: Ousted, driven out, but not forgotten. The photographers Emil Bieber, Max Halberstadt , Erich Kastan, Kurt Schallenberg. Weingarten 2003, ISBN 3-8170-2546-7
  • Fritz Kempe : In front of the camera . On the history of photography in Hamburg. Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1976
  • Wilhelm Weimar : The daguerreotype in Hamburg , (1st supplement to the yearbook of the Hamburg Scientific Institutions, XXXII, 1914) Verlag Otto Meissner, Hamburg, 1915.
  • Ludwig Cabinet: 50th anniversary (club and staff news). In: Ludwig Cabinet (Ed.): Photographische Correspondenz , 39th year, Vienna / Leipzig, 1902, pp. 518–519
  • Ludwig Cabinet (Ed.): Photographische Correspondenz , Carl Gerold's Sohn, Vienna; 5th Vol., 1868; Volume 39, 1902, volume 42, Vienna a. Leipzig, 1905 and 49th year, Vienna, 1912.
  • Dr. A. [dolf] Miethe (-Rathenow) (Ed.): Photographische Chronik , Wilhelm Knapp, Halle / S .; 1st year, 1895 and 5th year, 1898.
  • Hermann Wilhelm Vogel (Ed.): Photographische Mittelungen , Robert Oppenheim, Berlin; 25th year, 1889 and 26th year, 1890.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Artistic supplements to XXXIX. Vintages. IX. No. 504 .. :  Photographische Correspondenz , year 1902, Photographische Correspondenz, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / phc
  2. ↑ Emilie Bieber announced on June 24, 1854 under her own name as “Daguerreotype Atelier and Photographic Institute”
  3. ↑ Wilhelm Weimar, p. 39
  4. ^ "Julius Berlin: Grosse Bäckerstraße No. 26, second floor. Daguerreoty studio by E. Bieber… ”, advert in the Hamburger Nachrichten of May 6, 1854; Address books for Hamburg 1856 and 1857.
  5. ↑ In 1858 the name Julius Berlin can be found with the address Rathausstrasse. According to the entry, he had also offered commission and shipping business.
  6. ^ Hamburger Nachrichten of May 2, 1861
  7. ↑ “… originally intended for the merchant class, Professor Berlin entered the photographic studio in Hamburg founded by his aunt Emilie Bieber in 1862 [1852] in 1862, according to his urgent request.” Under Tages-Nachrichten , “75. Birthday ", in: Hamburgischer Correspondent and new Hamburg Stock Exchange Hall of November 17, 1916 (Second Morning Gazette of the Hamburg Correspondent, p. 2)
  8. ↑ Entries in the commercial register May 26, Hamburger Nachrichten , May 29, 1884, page 4.
  9. ↑ Photographische Korrespondenz , Volume 25, 1888, p. 38
  10. ↑ See awards.
  11. ↑ Hamburger Nachrichten , November 18, 1916 (morning edition), p. 6
  12. ↑ Photographische Correspondenz , 5th vol., 1868, p. 268.
  13. ^ Wilhelm Höffert , Jean Baptiste Feilner , Conrad Ruf , u. a.
  14. ↑ There was a call of the Photographic Society Hamburg-Altona , Hamburg colleagues with orders to consider as most be a threat to their existence.
  15. ↑ In the same year he opened his own photographic portrait studio in Hamburg's Neuer Wall.
  16. ↑ Photographische Korrespondenz , Volume 49, 1912, pp. 46–47.
  17. ↑ Ludwig Cabinet: 50th anniversary (club and staff news).
  18. ↑ This was the studio of the photographer Julius Cornelius Schaarwächter, who died in 1904 (source: Wiener Freie Photographische Zeitung , 9th year, 1906, p. 53)
  19. ↑ Photographische Korrespondenz , 42nd volume, 1905, p. 340
  20. ^ Altonaer Nachrichten of February 24, 1885
  21. ↑ a b In: Court and State Handbook for the Duchies of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha 1890 , Gotha undated, p. 85, ( digitized version )
  22. ^ In: Court and State Handbook for the Duchies of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha 1890 , Gotha undated, p. 84
  23. ↑ Predicated persons who belong to the ducal ... In: Court and State Manual for the Duchies of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1907 , Gotha n.d., p. 124
  24. ↑ Photographische Mittelungen , Vol. 25, 1889, p. 285. The recipient is Prof. Berlin, Hamburg.
  25. ↑ Photographische Mittelungen , 26th vol., 1890, p. 163, ( digitized version ).
  26. ↑ Photographische Correspondenz , vol. 39, 1902, p. 520.
  27. ↑ caption. In: Photographischen Correspondenz , Vol. 39, 1902, page oN, between 518 and 519. And predicated persons, which the ducal ... In: Court and State Manual for the Duchies of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha 1907 , Gotha o. J. , P. 121
  28. ↑ Kleine Mitteilungen , in: Photographischen Correspondenz , 1913, p. 299.
  29. ↑ "Bieber in Berlin." In awards from the world exhibition for book trade and graphics in Leipzig 1914 , in: Photographischen Correspondenz , 52nd year, 1915, p. 60.
  30. ↑ Photographische Chronik , 1st vol., 1895, p. 229.
  31. ↑ Photographische Chronik , 5th vol., 1898, p. 385.
  32. ^ Minutes of the plenary assembly of June 10, 1884 . In: Ludwig Cabinet (Ed.): Photographische Correspondenz , 21st year, Vienna / Leipzig, 1884, p. 196.
  33. ↑ Photographische Correspondenz, Volume 31 (1894), p. 300 .
  34. ↑ Wilfried Weinke, p. 37.
  35. ↑ Photographische Chronik , 17th vol., 1910, p. 510.
  36. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy for 1918. Vienna 1918, p. 369.
  37. ^ Address book of photography . Industry, trade, commerce 1929. Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1929, p. 58.
  38. ↑ This article mentions that Leonard Berlin took over the management of the studio as early as 1862. Since L. Berlin was only 21 years old at the time, the time 1872 is more likely.

Web links

Wikisource: Photographic Chronicle  - Sources and Full Texts
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personal data
SURNAME Berlin-Bieber, Leonard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berlin-Bieber, Leonhard; Berlin, Leonard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer with studios in Hamburg and Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1931
Place of death Hamburg