Theodor Glatz

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Theodor Glatz: Self-Portrait (1860)

Theodor Glatz (also Tivadar born December 10, 1818 in Vienna , Austrian Empire ; died April 3, 1871 in Sibiu , Austria-Hungary ) was an Austro-Hungarian painter and photographer.

Life

Theodor Glatz was the son of the Protestant pastor and writer Jakob Glatz (1776–1831). His sister Mathilde, married. Asbóth, showed himself as a painter, his brother Eduard Glatz (1812–1889) became an important Hungarian-German publicist ( Pester Lloyd ) in Budapest . His father moved from Vienna to Pressburg , where Glatz attended the Protestant school. He then studied in Vienna at the Academy of Fine Arts with Josef Mössmer . He settled in Sibiu as a landscape painter, gave drawing lessons and in 1843 became a drawing teacher at the newly founded Realschule, later also at the German grammar school . In the Brukenthal Museum he made copies of works of art there. During his hikes through Hungary he painted in the Carpathian Mountains , in Pressburg and in the Szadelö Gorge, which was then discovered to be romantic . In Buda in 1845 he drew the Chain Bridge that was under construction . The Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung printed his drawings between 1844 and 1854 (?).

He began to take photos in the early 1850s, Glatz's earliest surviving picture is a view of Kronstadt ( Hungarian Brassó) from 1854. In 1855 he took over the Sibiu photo studio from Ede Pesky and Béla Gévay. He shared his former student, the photographer Carl Koller , with the studio , who became a drawing teacher in Bistritz and ran a branch of the photo studio there.

Together with Koller, he presented two albums with Transylvanian personalities and Transylvanian costumes in 1862 . From 1861 he was a member of the Photographic Society in Vienna. At the world exhibition in Paris in 1867 he received a "Mention honorable" for architecture and landscape photography, and in 1868 he received a medal in Hamburg.

When Glatz died in 1871, Koller quit his teaching job, continued the joint photo studio (Th. Glatz & Carl Koller) in Herrmannstadt and immediately set up branches in Cluj-Napoca ( Kolozsvár in Hungarian ) and Marosvásárhely . In 1873 he handed the company over to Kamilla Asbóth (1838–1908), a niece of Glatz. Koller remained managing director until 1874. Asbóth ran it under the name "Camilla atelier" and thus probably became the first independent photographer in Transylvania. She continued to sell Glatz's Volk Typen recordings under her name.

  • Work by Theodor Glatz

  • Theodor Glatz: Kolozsmonostor in Kolozsvár (no year)

  • Theodor Glatz: Shipyard in Óbuda (1840)

  • Theodor Glatz and Karl Koller: Transylvanian Folk Costumes (1862)

  • Theodor Glatz: Gypsy family (no year)

literature

Back of an oval portrait (no year)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ruprecht Steinacker:  Glatz, Jacob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 436 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Konrad Klein: Photo Ethnologists. 2007.
  3. ↑ a b c d e K. Kincses: Glatz, Theodor (Tivadar) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 56, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22796-7 , pp. 65 f. ( books.google.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Glatz, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glatz, Tivadar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1871
Place of death Sibiu , Austria-Hungary