Société française de Wothlytypie

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The Société Française de Wothlytypie - French Society of Wothlytypie was founded in 1865 by Emmanuel Mangel du Mesnil (1815–1890) with its seat at number 12 rue de la Grange-Batelière in Paris . The name referred to the Wothlytypie , a special fine printing process with the help of uranium in photography . Its discoverer, Jacob Wothly from Aachen , received the French patent for his new technology on November 26th, 1864 . The process was only possible through its neutralization of the uranium oxide. Wothly planned his wothlytypie himselfPresented to art photographers in Paris.

Foundation of the company

Emmanuel Mangel du Mesnil, presumably a trained French painter and photographer , worked as a diplomat in Mexico from 1854 . The Mexican government sent him to Argentina in 1856 as photographer and vice-consul , where he ran a photo studio until 1861. He then worked as Foreign Minister for the Uruguayan government in Montevideo .

After his return to France in 1863, Mangel du Mesnil made prints of his photos from his time in South America in 1865 using the new fine printing process of the Wothlytypie. As a signature he put a blind stamp in the lower right corner. Mesnil was so fascinated by this technique that he called it the egg of Columbus .

Finally, Mesnil founded the Société Française de Wothlytypie in 1865 for the licensing and controlled distribution of this printing technique . The French themselves referred to the Wothlytypie as Épreuves positives photographiques dit Wothlytypie and were of the opinion that the Wothlytypie process represented a revolution. France acquired the Wothlytypie patent for 20,000 francs. Lack du Mesnil bought the French and Belgian licenses to commercialize the process. The patent and the necessary accessories could then be acquired through the company. As director of the Société, he was concerned above all with the problem of imitation and harmful interference with the process. Most importantly, Mesnil wanted to prevent counterfeiting and adverse changes that could affect the company's success. He suggested setting up an organization based in Belgium. During the waiting period he issued the licenses for Belgian photographers and enabled them to purchase the products for the Wothlytypie process in Paris.

Structures

Members could be anyone who had acquired a license and thus had the right to produce pictures using the Wothlytypie method.

The company's tasks were the authorized use and approval of the Wothlytypie process in accordance with the licensing. Only the members were granted the right to purchase the necessary products for the Wothlytypie at an " excessively reduced price" .

The members had the following rights and obligations:

  1. The license was personal and non-transferable
  2. Right to exercise the license in a single branch
  3. Each member had to hang his diploma framed and visible in his studio.
  4. All products for the Wothlytypie process ( collodion , chemicals, special papers, etc.) required good quality. As a guarantee, they were therefore only sold at the company's headquarters in Paris.
  5. Each member was asked to report all orders to the company's headquarters as required. Otherwise the license was revoked.

In the course of time, the following people and institutions were allowed to use the new procedure:

In Germany, thousands of licenses were issued over the next few years, initially for CHF 250 and from 1864 for CHF 300. The photographers achieved the best results. If you sent five-franc postage stamps to Mesnil, you received a sample image of a Wothlytypie. These depicted hunters, two portraits of women and a bird. A woman's portrait showed a woman reading sitting at a table. Vogel described the four proofs sent in as technical and artistically sophisticated works in a clear tone. The members praised the ease of use of the Wothlytypie. In their opinion, Wothly's method gave better images than the silver chloride prints. Marquart found that the pictures had a soft and delicate sheen and an even gradation in tone, " from the intense light to the deepest shadow ."

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Positive photographic printing process called Wothlytypie. ( Memento from November 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Recordings from his time in South America
  3. ↑ Oftringen, p. 1/177
  4. ↑ Whether the association has been set up with its headquarters and production facility in Belgium is questionable.
  5. ↑ Photographes du Roi, 27, Rue de l'Ecuyer, Bruxelles ( Memento of the original of May 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Grave monument Ghemar ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / webh01.ua.ac.be  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.maverick-ics.be
  6. ^ London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company
  7. ^ J. Wothly, Lack du Mesnil: "WOTHLYTYPIE. Application de nouveaux procédes photographiques. “1865.

literature

  • Jacob Wothly: Société française de Wothlytypie. Application de nouveaux procédés photographiques , Paris, Siège de la société, 1865, 1 vol., 47 p.