Otto Mayer (photographer)
Otto Mayer (born November 24, 1850 in Budapest ; † January 29, 1929 in Dresden -Loschwitz) was a German court photographer in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Life
Otto Mayer was, as evidenced by the lapel of a carte de visite, court photographer of the King of Saxony and “ Kaiserl. u. Royal Court photographer ”. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order , the Knight's Cross of the Order of Henry the Lion and the Order of the Iron Crown (Austria) III. Classe awarded.
Well-known studios
- Around 1885 Mayer took over Hugo Thiele's atelier in Dresden at Prager Strasse 31. For a while, his studio was also located at Prager Strasse 38. From there he sent mail with his own seal stamps .
Famous works
Adolf Loos ; Photo by Mayer
- The Baden-Württemberg State Archives keep a large-format photo of the Lord Master Prince Albrecht of Prussia (1883–1906) in the 55 cm × 32 cm format by Mayer in its collection of Baden-Württemberg Commands of the Order of St. John
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Adolf Loos has had Mayer portray himself several times; a photographic print on cardboard box is held by the Austrian National Library and the image archive Austria published.
- 1892 as a lieutenant in the reserve
- as well as 1898/99 and 1903
- A portrait of the last king of Saxony, Friedrich August III. , which appeared in the world tour of Reclam's universe in 1902 , could be identified as a work by Mayer in comparison with a signed postcard . Later photographs of the Saxon royal family were instead taken by the court photographer James Aurig .
- Colored postcards are also known by Mayer , for example in memory of the arrival of Sr. Maj. Of King Friedrich August in Leipzig
Web links
Commons : Otto Mayer - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Otto Mayer photographer on Europeana .eu
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b stock P 7/4 No. 224
- ↑ a b Inge Podbrecky, Rainald Franz (Ed.): Life with Loos. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-77743-4 , pp. 7, 90.
- ↑ a b Danuta Thiel-Melerski: Mayer (Dresden) / photo studio , her upload at Genwiki .de
- ↑ Photographische Correspondenz 1889. No. 340, p. 37.
- ↑ Photographische Correspondenz 1892. No. 376, p. 50.
- ↑ Photographische Correspondenz 1901. No. 495, p. 768.
- ↑ Two photos by Ethel Hume from January 1885 and July 1886 have different inscriptions on the edges. While the older picture is still labeled “Atelier Thiele Otto Mayer Dresden”, the younger one is labeled “Otto Mayer vorm. H. Thiele ”as well as the reference to Mayer's quality as a court photographer.
- ↑ See for example this photo.
- ^ Adolf Loos
- ↑ To this end, IMAGNO brandstätter images KG in Vienna claims copyrights : Austria-Forum Loos Adolf
- ↑ Compare this photo print with this postcard ( memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ see for example this family photo
- ↑ Postcard (Pernitzsch, L., art dealer (publisher)) owned by the City History Museum Leipzig , undated from this the beginning of 1912
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mayer, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German court photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1885 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1903 |