Otto Samhaber

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Otto Samhaber (born July 20, 1869 in Aschaffenburg , † after 1922) was a German photographer .

Life

Otto Franz Samhaber was a son of the photographer Joseph Samhaber and his wife Anna Aloisa Eleonore, geb. Stenger. He had a half-brother from his father's first marriage, Constantin Samhaber , and several full siblings, including Franz Samhaber . Otto Samhaber worked as a photographer in Zweibrücken ; previously he had apparently worked in the A. Hennemann & O. Samhaber atelier in Göppingen . Otto Samhaber married Elisabetha Hennemann.

He was honored in Nice and was a royal Bavarian court photographer. His studio in Zweibrücken was at Schillerstraße 14. Samhaber is documented as a photographer until 1922.

  • Back of a photograph from Samhaber's time in Göppingen

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wolfgang Appell, Jews in Erlangen. Volume I. A-D. Family book of the Jewish families from Erlangen, Bruck and Büchenbach , self-published. Last update May 2019 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ Most sources assume that he was based there at least from 1899, but according to a description of auction items on www.lotsearch.de he photographed the inauguration of the Bismarck monument there as early as 1894.
  3. ↑ Samhaber, Otto on www.deutschefotothek.de
personal data
SURNAME Samhaber, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Samhaber, Otto Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION photographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschaffenburg
DATE OF DEATH 1922 or later