Oscar Tellgmann

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Oscar Tellgmann (also: Oskar Tellgmann ) (born September 20, 1857 , † 1936 ) was a German photographer .

Life

Oscar Tellgmann was the son of the painter Ferdinand Tellgmann , who in 1841 - in the early days of photography - opened a soon-to-be-known photo studio in Mühlhausen / Thuringia . After Franz Tellgmann , the painter's second eldest son, had taken over the father's photo studio in 1877, Oscar initially only got into the brother's branch in Eschweg, only to take it over completely in 1883. Oscar then opened his own branches in Bad Sooden , Wanfried and Hersfeld , not under his own name, but under his father's company name (until his death in 1897) . Like his brother Franz, Oscar Tellgmann specialized in military and maneuver photography from 1860 onwards. The maneuver and parade photos were sold in large editions, often in specially edited albums . Many of these photos were used for illustration in magazines, others were used as postcards with portraits of high-ranking personalities. For example, the postcard with the portrait of the aged Field Marshal Graf von Haeseler is known .

After several royal houses had already awarded Oscar Tellgmann the title of court photographer , including that of the Grand Duke of Hesse , Kaiser Wilhelm II. Tellgmann finally put on the “coronation” by appointing him as his “court photographer”.

In the following year, the honored one got involved as one of the co-founders of the Association of German Illustration Photographers .

Until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, there were only two other photographers apart from the Tellgmann siblings who could officially call themselves “military photographers”.

September 1933: Wilhelm II with his second wife Hermine von Schönaich-Carolath in Haus Doorn

After the end of the Weimar Republic , in the year the National Socialists seized power , Oscar Tellgmann received another commission from the abdicated German emperor: In 1933 Tellgmann visited the former head of state in Dutch exile in Haus Doorn and made portraits of the former imperial couple as well as interior and exterior spaces Exterior shots of the buildings and the park area around Haus Doorn. 65 gelatine silver prints of this order have been preserved, which only reached the Doorn photo collection more than half a century later via the descendants of Tellgmann.

In the following year, 1934 Oscar's son Gustav Tellgmann (1888–1973) took over his father's business. However, photographs of the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht were only part of his livelihood until 1937. Gustav led the company through the Second World War and into the early reconstruction years . In 1954 he finally handed the photo company over to his colleague Otto Felmeden , who continued to run the company under the name Tellgmann for “a long time”.

In the Eschwege city museum you can find photographs and cameras from the Tellgmann studio as well as photographs of Haus Doorn and the former imperial couple in the photo collection there.

Oscar Tellgmann was a member of the Corps Albingia Dresden .

Works (selection)

Awards

Oscar Tellgmann was a court photographer

literature

  • Thomas Wiegand: Ferdinand Tellgmann. Professional portrayal in painting and photography around 1850 , at the same time dissertation in 1993 at the Kassel University, Kassel 1994: Jenior and Pressler, ISBN 3-928172-36-0
  • Rolf Hochhuth , Hans-Heinrich Koch (ed.):
    • Imperial times. Pictures of an era. From the archive of court photographers Oscar and Gustav Tellgmann , Gütersloh 1977, Bertelsmann- [Lesering]; also: Stuttgart: European educational community; Vienna: Book club Donauland; Vienna: German Book Community
    • Imperial times. Pictures of an era. From the archive of court photographers Oscar and Gustav Tellgman , redesigned and revised edition, Munich 2001: Langen Müller, ISBN 3-7844-2814-2
  • Andreas Felmeden: The award of court awards using the example of the "court photographer Sr. Majesty of the Emperor and King" Oscar Tellgmann , in: Order and Badge of Honor No. 39, October 2005, pages 10-16 , magazine of the German Society for Order Studies (DGO eV ).
  • Andreas Felmeden: From court photographer to photo reporter, The Tellgmann family of photographers in social change , in: Order and Badge of Honor No. 40, December 2005, pages 5-9 , magazine of the German Society for Ordenskunde eV (DGO eV).

Web links

Commons : Oscar Tellgmann  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In: Adolf Kiepert : Hannover in Wort und Bild , Hannover 1910, p. 21
  2. ↑ a b c d e f German Historical Museum (see sources)
  3. ↑ Note: The information about the place of birth of Ferdinand Tellgmann differ: The German Historical Museum names Eschwege , the contribution by Oliver Krebs Bischhausen bei Eschwege (see web links)
  4. ↑ see here
  5. ↑ see back of this photograph
  6. ↑ a b N.N. : Huis Doorn photo collection / Tellgmann collection on the huisdoorn.nl website , last accessed on November 8, 2012
  7. ↑ Eschwege City Museum
  8. ↑ Erwin Willmann (Ed.): Directory of the old Rudolstädter Corps students. (AH. List of the RSC.) , 1928 edition, No. 4882
  9. ↑ Revers of a photograph
personal data
SURNAME Tellgmann, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tellgmann, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court and military photographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1857
DATE OF DEATH 1936