Oswald Ufer

Wilhelm "William" Oswald Ufer (born April 3, 1828 in Neustadt in Saxony , † March 14, 1883 in Leipzig ) was a German painter , engraver and photographer . From 1873 he was a teacher, from 1876 professor at the Leipzig Art Academy .

Life

In the Roman Campagna , representation of a section of the Via Appia Antica

Ufer went to the Dresden Art Academy in 1842 . To study printmaking with Julius Thaeter , he enrolled on November 16, 1850 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He lived in Rome from 1853 to 1873 , where he took part in the "Cervaro Festivals" of the German Art Association in 1854, 1855, 1856 and 1858 and was involved in its exhibition in 1859. In the meantime he visited Greece and the Orient. In Via San Isidoro 20, he set up a "photographic institution" which was later to be found on Via Felice 113 (now Via Sistina) and which he handed over to his friend Michele Mang in 1871 . According to a diagram of the arts that the painter Alexander Maximilian Seitz had created on his behalf in 1864, photography was an equal artistic product that he offered to an international travel audience in Rome. In 1873 he went to the Leipzig Art Academy to teach copperplate printing. There he was awarded the title of professor in 1876 .

literature

Shore, William Oswald . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 528.

Web links

Oswald Ufer , biographical entry in the portal fotografenwiki.org

Individual evidence

↑ 00828 William Oswald Ufer , register book 1841–1884 of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, p. 606
↑ Dorothea Ritter: In the footsteps of James Anderson and the painter-photographers in Rome: The effulgent light of southern sky . In: Dorothea Ritter: Rom 1846–1870. James Anderson and the Painter-Photographers. Siegert Collection . Exhibition catalog, Neue Pinakothek, Munich 2005, p. 17

personal data
SURNAME	Ufer, Oswald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ufer, Wilhelm Oswald (full name); Ufer, William Oswald (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and engraver as well as photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 3, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neustadt in Saxony
DATE OF DEATH	March 14, 1883
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] 00828 William Oswald Ufer , register book 1841–1884 of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich

[2] Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, p. 606

[3] Dorothea Ritter: In the footsteps of James Anderson and the painter-photographers in Rome: The effulgent light of southern sky . In: Dorothea Ritter: Rom 1846–1870. James Anderson and the Painter-Photographers. Siegert Collection . Exhibition catalog, Neue Pinakothek, Munich 2005, p. 17