Leopold Ahrendts

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Leopold Ahrendts: Unter den Linden, 1857

Leopold Ahrendts (born June 16, 1825 in Dessau , † March 19, 1870 in Berlin ; full name Friedrich Leopold Ahrendts ) was a German draftsman, painter, lithographer and photographer .

Life

Leopold Ahrendts was born on June 16, 1825 in Dessau as the son of the master plumber and later factory owner Leopold Friedrich Heinrich Ahrends and his wife Karoline (born Karoline Reinicke in 1797). He had at least four siblings. The earliest surviving work by his hand is a lithograph from 1847 based on a self-portrait by the painter Rembrandt van Rijn (in the holdings of the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin ). A year later, a pencil drawing was dated, a portrait of Louise Litfaß, daughter of the Berlin printer's owner Ernst Litfaß .

He first worked as a painter and lithographer. There is evidence of his participation in the Berlin academy exhibition in the years 1850–52 with lithographs. From 1852 he is listed in the Berlin address book, initially as a lithographer with the address at Alte Jacobstraße 17, from 1854 on Charlottenstraße 3. It is not exactly known when he switched to the profession of photographer. The earliest photograph he signed dates from 1855 - a view over the Waisenbrücke to Berlin . In 1856 the portfolio Architectural Views of Berlin , which was highly praised by art critics , was published by the Berliner Kunsthandlung Leopold Haase , exclusively with photos by Ahrendts . In the same year he operates in the address book as a photographer with the address Jerusalemer Straße 18. He worked as a cityscape and architecture photographer for the Philipp Graff photo studio . In the 1860s he took part in international photographic exhibitions, in 1861 he was listed as “Architektur-Photographer” in the address book and in 1862 he also received orders from the Royal Museums in Berlin. In 1864 he became a member of the newly founded Photographischer Verein zu Berlin . In 1869 he moved to the new Berlin Association for the Promotion of Photography . Leopold Ahrendts died on March 19, 1870 in Berlin.

Ahrendts was personally acquainted with the painter Eduard Gaertner by 1836 at the latest , as one knows from Gaertner's writing calendar. Gaertner's estate contained a collection of photographs that also contained rough prints by Ahrendts. This has been in the photography collection of the Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation since 2000 .

From November 2012 to May 2013, the Munich City Museum showed an exhibition about Germany in early photographs from 1840–1890 , works by Leopold Ahrends can also be seen there.

literature

  • Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation (ed.): The photography collection of the painter Eduard Gaertner . Berlin around 1850 , Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-89479-345-6 (contains 77 recordings by Leopold Ahrendts, F. Albert Schwartz and Philipp Graff )
  • Leopold Ahrends: Architectural Views of Berlin , Leopold Haase Verlag, Berlin 1856
  • Ulrich Pohlmann and Dietmar Siegert (eds.): Between Biedermeier and Wilhelminian Period - Germany in Early Photographs 1840–1890. Schirmer / Mosel Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8296-0626-4 .
  • Leopold Ahrendts (Ill.), Hendrik A. Berinson (Ed.), Sigrid Schulze: Leopold Ahrendts (1825-1870) and the early days of photography in Berlin . Galerie Berinson, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814270-0-4 .
  • Eberhard Mayer-Wegelin a. a .: Berlin as a residential city. Photographs by Leopold Ahrendts 1854–1870 , Munich: Schirmer / Mosel 2018, ISBN 978-3-8296-0836-7 .

Web links

Commons : Leopold Ahrendts  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ed. Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin: Eduard Gartner 1801–1877 Catalog Berlin 2001, p. XXXX
  2. ^ Exhibition Munich City Museum
personal data
SURNAME Ahrendts, Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ahrendts, Friedrich Leopold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, painter, lithographer and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1870
Place of death Berlin