Wilhelm Cronenberg
Wilhelm Cronenberg (born January 18, 1836 in Frankfurt am Main , † August 1, 1915 in Munich-Pasing ; also Kronenberg ) was a German photographer and pioneer of photo technology .
Life
Cronenberg was a German pioneer of photography, who received international attention not least because of his publication Die Praxis der Autotypie on an American basis (1895) , which was also translated into English and French . He had gained this experience during his stay in the USA from 1854 . From 1857 he became self-employed as a photographer and ran the "Cronenberg & Comp." Studio at Steinstrasse 9 in Darmstadt . There he received citizenship in 1860 . In 1863 he handed over his old studio in Steinstraße to photographer Georg Markwort and opened his new one in Wiesenstraße 2, which he held for ten years until 1873. On November 27, 1871, he was appointed grand ducal Hessian court photographer.
As early as 1858, Cronenberg was one of the first in Germany to set up a “practical training institute for photography” at Grönenbach Castle in Bad Grönenbach in the Allgäu . There he taught and three assistants their students in portrait photography , light pressure and zinc - etching .
On June 7, 1858, coming from Darmstadt, he and the Würzburg photographer Hugo Hesselbach arrived in Bad Kissingen and lived with him in Adam Sotier's house . Later (mentioned in 1865) Cronenberg was the owner of the house 76 in the Ludwigstrasse in Bad Kissingen, in which he offered 42 guest rooms. In the same house he also ran a branch of his Darmstadt photo studio until 1880. During the season he also worked in Baden-Baden .
In 1881 Cronenberg will have sold his Kissinger house, because in that year he bought Grönenbach Castle "from the Bavarian tax authorities for a ridiculously small sum" . “The same man now set up a graphic and photographic institute with apprentices from all over the world in the castle under huge advertising; The teaching institute existed from 1881 to October 26, 1901, in which year the castle of W. Cronenberg was sold to Superior Dominikus Ringsisen of the St. Joseph Congregation in Ursberg for 30,000 marks to serve as a branch of the Ursberg mother house for further Christian purposes Charitas to be fed. "
As early as 1898, three years before the palace was sold, Cronenberg relocated his “practical training institute for photography and mechanical reproduction” to Munich-Pasing. In the same year he registered with the German Imperial Patent Office the patent no. 98203 for the "process for the production of autothpie cliches using collotype plates". In 1903, patent no. 3923 followed in Austria for “three- and multi-color printing on metal and stone”, now known as photolithography .
Cronenberg died on August 1, 1915 in Munich-Pasing.
Awards
- March 8, 1876: Medal of Merit of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order
Publications
- Photographs of Kissingen & the surrounding area , 1879 (photo collection)
- Tonprocess der Chlorosilber-Collodion-Photographien , Verlag Wilhelm Knapp, Halle (Saale) 1888
- About distance, glare and exposure in the halftone process , in: PhCorr 31 (1894), pp. 611–614
- The practice of autotype on an American basis , edited based on personal experience, with 56 text illustrations and numerous supplements, Eduard Liesegang Verlag, Leipzig 1895; English translation: Half-tone on the American Basis, Percy Lund & Company, 1896; French translation: La Pratique de la phototypogravure américaine, Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1898
- The technique of the autotype , in: Prometheus , Volume 6, Verlag Rudolf Mückenberger, 1895, page 811ff.
- Process for the production of autotype clichés using photographic printing plates , patent specification, 1898
Exhibitions
- 1997: Put in the picture ... Darmstadt photographers of the 19th century , exhibition by the Darmstadt State and City Archives
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette 1871, Appendix 40, p. 444
- ↑ Erich Stenger: The photography in culture and technology , Verlag EA Seemann, 1938, page 194 excerpt . - It is not clear whether Cronenberg had his teaching establishment at Grönenbach Castle as early as 1858 or only after the castle was bought in 1881; the sources contradict each other.
- ^ Entry as No. 503 in the official spa list from 1858 digitized
- ↑ He probably bought the Sotier House during this visit, as Cronenberg's photographs with Kissinger motifs have been known since 1859 (Source: Wolfgang Brückner: Extremely met and beautiful. Historical photography in Lower Franconia , accompanying volume to the exhibition of the same name by the Institute for German Philology of University, the district of Lower Franconia and the city of Würzburg from October 25 to November 30, 1989 in the Greising houses Würzburg, Verlag Echter, Würzburg 1989, ISBN 3-429-01269-4 and ISBN 978-3-429-01269-4 , Page 178), and in 1865, according to the Kissinger address book, the same Adam Sotier is named as a private resident in Cronenberg's house 76.
- ^ FJ Reichardt (Ed.): Address book of Kissingen , self-published, Kissingen 1865, page 33 digitized
- ↑ He is no longer mentioned in the Kissinger address book from 1896.
- ↑ Joseph Sedelmayer: History of the market town Grönenbach Archived copy ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . - It is not clear whether Cronenberg only had his teaching institution at Grönenbach Castle in 1881 or as early as 1858; the sources contradict each other.
- ^ Oesterreichisches Patentblatt , Volume 5, Verlag der KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1903, page 222 excerpt
- ^ Journal of Applied Chemistry , Association of German Chemists, German Society for Applied Chemistry, Verlag Springer, 1915, page 468 excerpt
- ↑ Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette 1876, Appendix 21, p. 279
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cronenberg, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kronenberg, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer and pioneer of photo technology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 1915 |
| Place of death | Munich-Pasing |