Ludwig Angerer

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Ludwig Angerer

Ludwig Angerer (born August 15, 1827 in Malaczka near Pressburg , Austrian Empire , † May 12, 1879 in Vienna ) was an Austrian photographer .

family

Ludwig Angerer was the second oldest of six children of a German Catholic family in Malatzka, western Slovakia. His father, Ferdinand Johann Alois (Ján Alojz) Angerer, was a forester for Count Jozef Pálffy . His mother, Amália Sethová came from Dotis (Tata) in Hungary. His older brother Ferdinand (born August 29, 1825) was director of the central bank of Austria . His two younger brothers, Viktor Angerer (1839–1894) and August Angerer (1833–1881) were also photographers and photo publishers. His sisters were named Amalie and Josephine. Ludwig was married to Maria, geb. Aigner (1838-1913). The couple had sons Franz (Fery), August, Alexander and Ludwig. The eldest son Fery Angerer was a doctor, he owned a private sanatorium at Mondsee and was an amateur photographer. The daughter (or sister) Margarethe married the photographer Johann Bauer, 2nd chairman of the Photographische Gesellschaft zu Wien (1867–68).

Life

Ludwig Angerer, the son of a forester, first studied pharmacy and chemistry before working in Pest . From 1854 he was a pharmacist in the garrison pharmacy in Vienna and also took up photography on the side, although he had not learned to do so. From 1854 he was also able to use this in the military, as he accompanied a regiment as a regimental pharmacist in the Danube principalities. When he returned from the Crimean War, the paper photos he had brought with him caused a sensation because of their technical perfection. He is considered the first "urban portraitist" in Bucharest.

Together with Hugo von Strassern, he founded his first studio in Vienna in 1858 . Before 1860 he moved into a new studio and was already self-employed. By decree of December 25, 1860, he was appointed kk court photographer .

In 1862 he moved to the neighboring house, which was his property. There he built a splendid and much-noticed studio. The journalist and photographer Alois Nigg only briefly described this first-rate photographic salon in his article "About the construction of the photographic salons.", Because he stated that this construction was so expensive, carried out entirely in the style of a palace, so that it was even used by the upper class the photographic maker would hardly find an imitator because of its cost. He further wrote:

“The character of the Viennese photographic school, if it is permissible to designate this art expression here, has now mainly developed through the influence of Ludwig Angerer and thus the studio system he has chosen has found the most general distribution; because the salon in Theresianumgasse, first indicated by him and executed by the building supervisor Romano, can be taken as the strict model of the studios later built by the architect Förster on the Palais Todesco (photographer Leth) and on the Hotel National in Leopoldstadt (photographer Rabending), just like his photographic process through numerous pupils and assistants has established itself directly and indirectly in the Viennese establishments. "

- Alois Nigg : About the construction of the photographic salons.

In 1857 Angerer was the first to offer the Carte de Visite photography, which was very much in vogue in Paris from 1859, in Vienna and contributed significantly to its dissemination. In 1867 he built a branch atelier in the city. Alois Nigg also wrote about this studio in the article mentioned: “On the first floor the reception salon, office and work room, and the actual studio on the upper part. All of the glass panels used for the skylight are matt-finished, with only blue glass on the vertical side wall. It was strange that inside this studio one hardly noticed the blue color of the glass wall. ”From 1872 he ran a studio together with his brother Viktor Angerer , which he ran (“ L. & V.ANGERER ”). In 1873 he withdrew from the business due to illness and handed it over to his brother Viktor. Ludwig Angerer died in 1879.

He portrayed Austrian and foreign celebrities and also made cityscapes of Vienna as well as genre and animal studies. As an amateur, he did significant work on the topography of the monarchy.

Group picture of the imperial family , Vienna May 1860

Publications

  • About the enlargement apparatus , in: Karl Josef Kreutzner (Ed.): Journal for Photography and Stereoscopy , III. Vol., Seidel & Sohn, Vienna, 1861, pp. 179ff.
  • About a method on dry Kollod , in: Karl Josef Kreutzner (Hrsg.): Zeitschrift für Fotografie und Stereoskopie , IV. Vol., Seidel & Sohn, Vienna, 1861, pp. 203ff.
  • A new system for studio tripods , in: Ludwig Cabinet (ed.): Photographische Correspondenz , 3rd year, Carl Gerold's Sohn, Vienna 1866, pp. 32–34
  • Report on the photographic part of the World Exhibition in Paris in 1867. In: Ludwig Cabinet (Ed.): Photographische Correspondenz , 4th year, Carl Gerold's Sohn, Vienna 1867, pp. 125-134.

honors and awards

  • Appointment as royal court photographer by decree of December 25, 1860.
  • Medal for “excellence in general and great sharpness of the exhibited images” at the International Exhibition of Photographic Images in London (1862?)
  • Silver medal; Awards for photographs and photographic equipment at the Paris World's Fair in 1867.
  • 1868 honorary member of the Hamburg Photographic Association, founded in 1865.

literature

  • Angerer, Ludwig . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).
  • Die Presse , History of Photography in Austria 1–2 , November 6, 2004
  • A. Holzer: In the shadow of the Crimean War. LA's photo expedition to Bucharest… , in: Fotogeschichte 24, 2004, H. 93, P. 23–50; T. Starl, Lexicon on Photography in Austria 1839–1945, 2005
  • Photo library: Biobibliography on photography in Austria
  • John Hannavy: “ Angerer, Ludwig (1827–1879) and Angerer, Viktor (1839–1894). ”. In: John Hannavy, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. New York: Routledge 2008, pp. 39-40. google books

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Angerer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Photographic Journals  - Sources and Full Texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.rkiwien.at/event/25-Okt/die-ausstellung-ludwig-angerer-revisited-ein-wiener-in-bukarest-1853-1856-in-der-rki-wien-galerie
  2. ↑ Ludwig Cabinet (Ed.): Photographische Correspondenz , 5th vol, Carl Gerold's Sohn, Vienna, 1868, pp. 63–70 and pp. 77–85.
  3. ^ Josef Maria Eder : Introduction of business card photography in Vienna . In: History of Photography Volume 1, 4th edition, Knapp, Halle / S , 1932, p. 489.
  4. ↑ a b https://www.wienerzeitung.at/archiv/museum/834734-Kaiserlicher-Fototermin.html
  5. ↑ 14. Award in: Karl Josef Kreutzner (Ed.): Journal for Photography and Stereoscopy , III. Vol., Seidel & Sohn, Vienna, 1861, p. 15.
  6. ↑ prices . In: Paul E. Liesegang (ed.): Photographisches Archiv , 3rd volume, Theobald Grieben, Berlin 1862, p. 180.
  7. ↑ Photographische Correspondenz , Volume 4, 1867, p. 172.
  8. ↑ Hamburg address book for 1869 , authorities a. a. Body, official information: Fourth section. Alphabetical index of the most important local public institutions, charitable and similar non-profit foundations and associations, scientific institutes etc. Collections, buildings worth seeing, etc. s. w., page 811 (Verein, Photographischer, zu Hamburg).
  9. ↑ Photographische Correspondenz , Volume 4, 1867, p. 288.
personal data
SURNAME Angerer, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Malacky
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1879
Place of death Vienna