Philipp Graff

Julius Philipp Graff (born November 7, 1813 in Berlin ; † March 3, 1851 ibid) was a German mechanic and daguerreotypist in Berlin.

Life

Philipp Graff is considered one of the most important Berlin daguerreotypists, who not only made a name for himself through his photographs; the Graff mixture named after him was a method of increasing sensitivity.

The mechanic Philipp Graff ran his photographic studio at Jerusalemer Strasse 18 in Berlin, “across from Kronenstrasse”. He was first mentioned as a daguerreotypist in the Berlin address book of 1845 with this profession.

As early as 1843, Graff advertised his company with various stickers, many of which are now in the Agfa Foto-Historama  V collection in Cologne . One of the stickers identifies Graff as a court photographer “His Royal Highness the Prince Adalbert of Prussia ”.

Another sticker by Graff in the Agfa collection shows a M. Hoffmann who offered his services in “Berlin, Graffs Atelier”, possibly as Graff's successor.

Graff died in 1851, at the young age of 37. Nevertheless, the long-standing research project led by Sibylle Einholz on the Berlin photography studios in the 19th century at the Berlin University of Technology and Economics has a studio operated under Graff's name, also Jerusalemer Straße 18 from 1870 to 1887 and from 1887 to 1891 at the address Leipziger Straße 114. A photograph depicting Ferdinand Lassalle from 1860 bears the imprint on the reverse: “18. Jerusalemer Str. 18. Philipp Graff. Hof Photographer Sr. Königl. Highness of Prince Adalbert of Prussia. Berlin 18. Jerusalemer Str. 18 across from Kronen Strasse. ”In the Berlin address book from 1859 it is entered both under this address and under the traders.

In addition, one of Graff's stickers in the Agfa collection shows two awards from “Philipp Graff”, including a “Dem Merit” medal from 1865 at the first photographic exhibition of the Photographisches Verein zu Berlin . A photo dated by Danuta Thiel-Melerski between 1888 and 1892 shows an honoring medal from Paris from 1867 on the lapel ; at the same time, a Carl Georgi is identified as the owner of the photo studio at Leipziger Strasse 114 .

A portrait of Phillip Graff out of time "before 1854" by an unknown daguerreotypists arrived on the estate of Görlitz photographers Robert Scholz in the Daguerreotypiecollection the Municipal Collections of History and Culture Görlitz . in the cultural history museum Görlitz .

Graff was married to Mathilde Beer since 1849. After his death, his atelier was continued by his widow from 1851 until her death in 1854, and then by her brother August Beer until the 1890s.

Famous works

Porcelain - engraving of a Samuel Colt s self-portrait , photographed by Graff in 1855

• 1848: various portrait daguerreotypes by members of the Frankfurt National Assembly
• around 1850: Daguerreotype, retrospectively inscribed in pencil "Onkel Gottlieb Teicher", chosen by the Club Daguerre as a photo of the month .
• 15 photographs in the holdings of the Association for the History of Berlin , including one with the painter Ludwig Burger (born September 19, 1825, † October 22, 1884)
• 1868: Max Lehr 's child portrait at Europeana .eu
• Stereoscopy Five gentlemen playing cards , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , uploaded via the Deutsche Fotothek in very low resolution to Europeana .eu
• From the collection of the Berlin vedute painter Eduard Gaertner , a unique collection of 77 photographs was only discovered in 2001; in addition to recordings by Leopold Ahrendts and F. Albert Schwartz, there are also originals by Philipp Graff. (Born September 19, 1825 in Krakow; † October 22, 1884 in Berlin)

Dost collection

The Berlin photographer and author Wilhelm Dost had acquired portrait daguerreotypes from his grandfather's estate and from the descendants of Philipp Graff . Before 1945, the resulting Dost Collection was one of the "most important international historical compilations [...] from the history of photography" and was shown at home and abroad. However, the collection has been considered lost since the 1970s.

literature

• Wilhelm Dost: The daguerreotype in Berlin 1839-1860. A contribution to the history of photographic art. R. Bredow Verlag, Berlin 1922.
  • English: Robert Robieszek (Ed.): The Daguerreotype in Germany. Arno Press, New York 1979, OCLC 311673307 . ( The sources of modern photography series )
• Bodo von Dewitz, Fritz Kempe: Documents of Photography. Volume 2: Daguerreotypes: Ambrotypes a. Images of other processes from d. Early days d. Photograph. Museum of Arts and Crafts , Hamburg 1983, DNB 840035411 .
• Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation (ed.): The photography collection of the painter Eduard Gaertner. Berlin around 1850. Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89479-345-7 .

Web links

Commons : Philipp Graff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Graff, Philipp at europeana .eu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Baptismal register Friedrichswerder Church, No. 132/1813
2. ↑ New Church death register, No. 63/1851
3. ^ National Gallery of Canada : Philipp Graff
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Günter Gymnich: Photo of the month / daguerreotype by P. Graff, Berlin .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Club Daguerre  
5. ^ ^{A b c} Sybille Einholz: The association for the history of Berlin in the mirror of the history of photography. In: Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin. 2006.
6. ↑ Daguerrotypists . In: General housing gazette for Berlin, Charlottenburg and surroundings , 1845, part 3, p. 696. “Graf [sic] Jerusalemerstr. 18. “.
7. ^ ^{A b c} Ludwig Hoerner : The photographic industry in Germany 1839-1914. GFW-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-87258-000-0 , pp. 242, 256.
8. ^ Sibylle Einholz: Berlin photography studios of the 19th century
9. ↑ Izumi Omura: Family Marx private. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-05-004118-8 , p. 109.
10. ↑ Graff, P., jun. In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1859, part 1, p. 148.
11. ↑ Danuta Thiel-Melerski: Details about the photographer, signature: 4266 in her photographer's lexicon on fotorevers.eu
12. ^ Portrait of Phillip Graff. daguerreotype-gallery.de
13. ↑ Wedding Register New Church, No. 113/1849
14. ↑ New Church death register, No. 33/1854
15. ^ Entry on Graff in the general artist lexicon
16. ↑ Sigrid Schulze: In the consciousness of own maturity. Portrait daguerreotypes of members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848 by Philipp Graff. In: Wolfgang Hesse, Katja Schumann: Mensch !, photographs from Dresden collections. Marburg 2006, pp. 64-65.
17. ↑ Portrait and information  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
18. ↑ Europeana ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
19. ^ Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin (ed.): The photography collection of the painter Eduard Gaertner ... (see literature)
20. ^ Sigrid Schulze: Original and reproduction. On the provenance history of the former Dost Collection. In: Irene Ziehe, Ulrich Hägele (Ed.): Photos - “beautiful and useful at the same time”: the object of photography. ISBN 3-8258-8663-8 , pp. 95ff.