Wilhelm August Degèle

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Wilhelm August Degèle (born February 7, 1820 in Hanover , † after 1888) was a German daguerreotypist , dance teacher and editor, as well as a Freemason .

Life

Ernst von Bandel (in front of his workshop) with the head of the Hermann monument
View into the Guelph mausoleum in the mountain garden with the sarcophagi of Queen Friederike and King Ernst August ;
around 1861, photo Degèles in the Ernst August album from Klindworth's Verlag , created on the occasion of the inauguration of the Ernst August monument
"Study of Sr. Most Blissful Majesty of the King ( Ernst August ) of Hanover" in the Old Palace ;
b / w photo Degèles in the Ernst August album from 1861/62 of a gouache originally multicolored around 1850 by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Kretschmer

Wilhelm August Degèle's brother was the daguerreotypist Carl Degèle , who worked in Emden from 1853 .

At the beginning of the German Revolution , Wilhelm August Degèle joined the St. Johannisloge “ Zum schwarzen Bär ” on March 17, 1848 .

In the address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover from 1850, Wilhelm August Degèle is referred to as a “dance teacher and dagurerreotype (is)” based at Koebelingerstraße 20 . In the edition of 1852 he advertised for the first time in the address book of Hanover, in 1852 he called himself "Photographer" instead of a daguerreotype. Until 1886 he is listed as a photographer and dance teacher, in the edition of 1887 only as a dance teacher, from 1888 onwards no profession is mentioned, presumably at the age of 68 he gave up his professional activity.

A sticker for daguerreotypes has survived from the early days of photography , which confirms the information from the address book from 1850. However, the back of a Carte de Visite is located in the “Photographic Atelier ” at Luisenstrasse 8 II / opposite [the] | Hotel Royal .

In 1861 Degèle published a book with views of the manorial palaces and gardens in front of Hanover (= among other things, Herrenhausen Gardens ) at the beginning of the 18th century . Most of these were 16 photographed drawings and copper engravings by J. J. Müller and Joost van Sasse .

Degèle was a member of the Hanover Photography Association, which was founded in 1888 .

Works

  • 1861: Views of the stately palaces and gardens in front of Hanover in their original form at the beginning of the eighteenth century / after drawings and copper engravings by JJ Müller and J. v. Sasse photographed by WA Degele , Hanover, 1861

photos

Hanover originals
  • Several portrait daguerreotypes (privately owned) have been preserved: In addition to two “portraits of women”, another one with “F [riedrich] C [ristoph] Lübcke” around 1855.
  • In the Ernst August album published in 1862 in memory of the inauguration of the Ernst August monument , two photographs by Degèle are published:
  • An oval photo in the possession of the Hanover Historical Museum , titled "Hanoverian originals , around 1863", produced using the wet collodion process and "inscribed with" Degèle "by an unknown hand". It presumably shows a city night watchman and a community shepherd with poor clothes and props who belonged to “the lowest group of public servants”.
  • A print on albumen paper , which is also owned by the Historisches Museum Hannover , shows " Ernst von Bandel [...] before 1872". "The photo [...] shows the sculptor in front of his workshop, which was located at Eisenstrasse 1, southeast of the train station , together with the already completed head of his Hermann monument and a small model of the entire monument". It is assumed that the photo was used for the double-sided wood engraving by Carl Oesterley senior in the gazebo from 1872. It appeared on pages 442 and 443 with the caption “In the birthplace of the Hermann monument. Taken from nature ”.

literature

  • Ludwig Hoerner : Hanover in early photographs. 1848-1910 . Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-921375-44-4 . (With a contribution by Franz Rudolf Zankl)
  • ders .: Photography and photographers in Hanover and Hildesheim. Festschrift for the 150th birthday of photography . Edited by photographers guilds Photographers Guild Hanover and Hildesheim, manufactured in Berufsförderungswerk Bad Pyrmont in the occupations typesetting, repro photography, plate making, lithographic printing and bookbinding under the retraining., 1989
  • Address books of the city of Hanover, various editions from 1845.
  • Diana Schulze: The photographer in gardens and parks: aspects of historical photographs in public gardens in Germany from 1880 to 1930 , Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-8260-2699-3 ; on-line
  • Alvensleben, Reuter: Herrenhausen . 1966, pp. 23, 29, 43.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm August Degèle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Kempe: Daguerreotype in Germany - from the charm of early photography , Heering, 1979, ISBN 978-3-7763-5190-3 , p. 186.
  2. ↑ a b Wilhelm Nöldeke: The Johannis Masonic Lodge to the Black Bear in the Orient from Hanover 1774 to 1874. History of the Lodge , ed. on the occasion of the secular celebration on March 16 and 17, 1874, with a list of all members in the appendix, Hanover: Hofbuchdruckerei Gebrüder Jänecke, 1874, appendix p. 8; online through google books
  3. ↑ Christian Timm: "... concerning the production of photos while moving around ..." On the situation of traveling photographers in East Friesland . In: Detlef Hoffmann , Jens Thiele (Hrsg.): Lichtbilder, Lichtspiele: Beginnings of photography and cinema in East Frisia . Accompanying booklet to the traveling exhibition in the Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum (Rathausfestsaal) in Emden from May 2 to 23, 1989 and in Nienburg in the Nienburg Museum from October 15 to November 12, 1989. Jonas-Verlag für Kunst und Literatur, Marburg 1989, ISBN 3-922561 -84-5 , pp. 156-191, here pp. 170f.
  4. ^ Address book ... 1850, p. 77
  5. ^ Fritz Kempe: Daguerreotype in Germany - the charm of early photography . Heering, 1979, ISBN 978-3-7763-5190-3 , p. 186.
  6. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: Hanover in early ... (see literature), p. 42
  7. ↑ a b Microfiche , Lower Saxony State Library : gso.gbv.de
  8. ↑ Illustration of the list of associations from 1894 in: Ludwig Hoerner: Photographie und Photographen ... (see literature), p. 27
  9. ^ Ludwig Hoerner: Portrait daguerreotypien , in: Hanover in early photographs. 1848-1910. P. 85.
  10. ↑ Ernst August Album  - Internet Archive
  11. ↑ Ernst August Album  - Internet Archive
  12. ↑ Ernst August Album  - Internet Archive
  13. ^ Ludwig Hoerner: Hannoversche Originale, around 1863 , in: Hanover in early photographs. 1848-1910. P. 102 f.
  14. ↑ A creative slap in the face . In: The Gazebo . Issue 27, 1872, pp. 441-445 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  15. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: Ernst von Bandel . In: Hanover in early photographs. 1848-1910. P. 212 f.
personal data
SURNAME Degèle, Wilhelm August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German daguerreotypist, dance teacher and editor as well as Freemason
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH after 1888