Otto miracle

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Around 1870: back of a carte de visite with a sketched site plan

Otto Wunder (born September 28, 1844 in Hanover ; † 1921 ibid) was a German photographer who owned the “F. Miracle Son “operated.

Life

Otto was the eldest of three sons of Friedrich Karl Wunder , Hanover's first photographer. All three sons also became independent photographers. Otto was the first to open a “photographic institution” in Hanover in 1870 at Schillerstraße 24 H under the name of F. Wunder Sohn . "At that time, the name Wunder must have enjoyed such an excellent reputation that Otto Wunder made it a point to at least keep the father's name in the company name". This first company location in the immediate vicinity of the main train station (at the location of today's Galeria Kaufhof ) also promised good business thanks to the many travelers who, in the early days of photography , were able to document their visit to the city with their own business card .

The arithmetic book author Ferdinand Heuer ;
Atelier Ernst-Augustplatz 6 , around 1881
The studio found "Hermann Rigger" and other customers "in the garden".
1885/86: Back of a CDV of the time with the images of two medals
"Around" 1890: CDV from the Königstrasse location

For the first time in the address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden for 1881, Otto Wunder appeared with the company name “F. Wunder Sohn ”, based in the house“ Ernst-Augustplatz 6 ”, where he ran his studio on the second floor. For the period 1885/86 , the backs of various Cartes de Visite (CDV) document the new company location, now directly “across from the train station”. On those CDVs there is also a reference to two previous awards.

In 1888 Otto Wunder, like his brother Karl Friedrich Wunder , took part in the general trade exhibition of the province of Hanover . In the official trade exhibition newspaper it said: “[…] On both sides in the right and left queer hall there are photographs by F. Wunder Sohn, also mostly portraits, partly in unchangeable pigment print, partly enamel photographs, and the previous [Karl Friedrich Wunder, Fa. Friedrich Wunder] not below. "

In 1890 at the latest, the company moved to "Königstrasse 52 ... (the) Tivoli diagonally opposite" and was able to afford one of the first "telephone" connections .

In comparison with the “visiting cards” of other photographers, the difference is that Otto Wunder apparently had the photo boxes for his CDVs preprinted with the current year numbers from a certain point in time. The purpose was presumably to rationalize the retrieval of the photo plates , which, according to his CDVs, were "kept for reorders and enlargements". This means that the original recordings on business cards found can also be older than the pre-printed, dated photo print carrier (the photo cardboard) - a date must therefore always be seen as an approximate indication.

The photo business “ did not survive the economic difficulties of the inflationary years”.

Otto Wunder - like his brother Karl Friedrich - was buried next to his parents in a family grave acquired in 1869 in the Engesohder cemetery .

Awards

On the business cards from 1885/86 Otto Wunder advertised with images of the medals from

  • 1878: "For commercial performance", General Commercial Exhibition of the Province of Hanover , and
  • 188 ... (1885 or earlier): "Honorary Prize for Excellent Achievement in Photography", German Photographic Association .

literature

Web links

Commons : Otto Wunder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b Ludwig Hoerner: The miracle dynasty . In: Hanover in early… , p. 37ff. (see literature)
  2. ↑ Note: The surviving photographs therefore cannot be used to infer “typical Hanoverians” of the time, but more generally to “contemporaries”.
  3. ↑ Compare the address book ... 1880 and the address book ... 1881, Section I: Alphabetical directory of authorities and institutions, residents and trading companies , p. 671; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation
  4. ^ Ludwig Hoerner: Photography and Photographers in Hanover and Hildesheim. Festschrift for the 150th birthday of photography . Published by the Hanover and Hildesheim photographers' guilds , produced in the Bad Pyrmont vocational promotion center in the training professions typesetting, repro photography, printing form production, flat printing and bookbinding as part of the retraining, 1989, p. 12
  5. ↑ see back of a CDV from 1890
  6. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: Hanover in early ... (see literature), p. 38
  7. ↑ see back of a CDV from 1885/86
personal data
SURNAME Miracle, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES F. Wonder son
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Photographer in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 1921
Place of death Hanover