Wilhelm Höffert

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Revers of a carte de visite , made by Haake & Albers .
Revers, hand-dated beginning “[…] 1877” with a dedication to Max Kurnik

Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Hugo Höffert (born October 25, 1832 in Stralsund , † April 8, 1901 in Wiesbaden ) was a German photographer who ran studios in numerous German cities .

Life

Wilhelm Höffert's parents were actors . He was born during his parents' theater engagement in Stralsund. The mother was the actress Emilie Wilhelmine Johanna Louise Höffert (1808-1857), b. Devrient, the daughter of the actor Ludwig Devrient . The father was the actor and director Wilhelm David Höffert. As a child, Wilhelm Höffert was probably accompanied by his mother, the actress Emilie Höffert, his brother Louis and his sister Elise. In 1840 she was engaged at the Grand Ducal Court Theater in Schwerin. From 1845 to 1851 she was a court actress at the Oldenburg Court Theater.

From Oldenburg , 16-year-old Höffert went to the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1848 to receive painting lessons from Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Theodor Hildebrandt , who introduced him in particular to portraiture . Hildebrandt assessed his performance with the grade "very good". In 1850 Wilhelm Höffert left the art academy.

It is not known whether Wilhelm Höffert actually stayed as a photographer in Warsaw and Russia, as his mother suspected.

In 1860 he entered into a business partnership with the photographer and painter Moritz Unna in Gothenburg . Unna had opened a studio as a daguerreotypist in Gothenburg in 1853 , and from 1855 the address was Drottninggatan 68 . The joint company operated under the name “Unna & Höfferts Fotografiska Atelier” with the address Södra Hamngatan 41 . In 1863 the partnership was dissolved and Unna went to Copenhagen, where he bought the photographic studio of Peter Ludwig Rudolph Striegler (1816–1876).

Wilhelm Höffert probably returned to Germany in the same year and opened a photographic studio in Dresden under his name. Wilhelm Höffert was one of the first photographers to be involved in business by running and / or having photographic studios under the name W. Höffert in several cities. The names of the operators / studio owners were often not known, and the business situation does not seem to have been clear. Only the photographer Georg Brokesch called himself manager of the Leipzig studio from 1872 to 1875.

From 1872 to 1884 Höffert lived in Dresden at Pragerstaße 32 and until 1889 in Lüttichaustr. 18. According to the entry in the Dresden address books, he had given his wife Mila Höffert power of attorney in 1876 . For the first time in the Berlin and Dresden address books from 1895 she is listed as a co-owner. It is not known which area of ​​responsibility she was specifically responsible for.

In 1892 Wilhelm Höffert entered the USA via New York. He was married a second time and lived in Chicago . It is not known when he left the United States again.

Even if today there are still a large number of photographs on which the name W. Höffert was printed, not much is known about the life and whereabouts of W. Höffert, nor how long he photographed or portrayed himself.

Wilhelm Höffert was married to Bohumila (called Mila) Wehle. She was the daughter of the Sorbian writer Jan Wjela-Radyserb / Johann Wehle (1822–1907). From this marriage came the son Ludwig, with whom she continued the business after the death of Wilhelm Höffert in April 1901. In 1903, probably in the summer, Mila Höffert filed for bankruptcy. In July 1904 she was tried before the Dresden Regional Court for fraud. The son escaped the trial by fleeing abroad.

W. Höffert - studios and branches

  • in Dresden from 1864 to 1877 at Marienstraße 10 , from 1874 to 1890 at Seestraße 10 in the Herzfeld department store , from 1891 to 1899 at Prager Straße 49 and from 1900 to 1903 at house number 7.
  • in Leipzig from around 1869 to April 1876 in Thomaskirchhof 24 and from April 15, 1876 to 1905 in Schlossgasse 16 in the August Polich department store
  • in Chemnitz from approx. 1872 to 1878 in the Zwickauerstraße 1 in the garden and from 1879 to 1893 with the address Langestraße 18 .
  • in Bad Ems (beginning and period unknown),
  • in Karlsruhe in 1875 and 1876 at Hirschstrasse 36 .
  • in Nice on Rue du Temple N o . 5 . (1876-1881)
  • In Berlin , the studio at Leipziger Platz 12 is documented from 1885 to 1897 and Unter den Linden 24 from 1892 to 1900
  • in Breslau at Tauentzienplatz 11 (beginning and period unknown),
  • in Hamburg from 1881 to 1899 in Poststrasse 5b / Jungfernstieg 6 (from 1885 Jungfernstieg 12) / Stadtwassermühle 5 and from 1900 to 1902 in Esplanade 47 , Alsterthor 14/16
  • in Hanover at Georgstrasse 9 , first entry in the list of residents in the address book in 1879 with the note “Prok .: Ehefr. Höffert, Mila, b. Wehle ”, from 1885“ Archit. Wilh. Sültenfuß (sole sales) ”, from 1889 at number 14, from 1901 at number 8, from 1892“ Inh. Photogr. Jul. Benade ”, from 1894 Wilhelm Höffert and his wife Mila, from 1897 instead of the wife the son“ Ing. and photogr. Paul Ludw. Höffert ”, from 1902“ We. [Widow] Mila Höffert, geb. Wehle "and son, from 1904 Lemförderstrasse 1, from 1905 Wihelm Höffert Nachf. , Alfred von Carlowitz- Hartitzsch,
  • in Magdeburg in the Breiteweg 196/197 , (beginning and period unknown)
  • in Bonn , from July 30, 1900 to 1901 in Coblenzerstr. 8 ,
  • in Düsseldorf , Alleestraße 40, first entry in the address book (trade) from 1897. The entry “Höffert, Wilhelm Ehefr., geb. Wehle ”, from 1899“ Höffert, Wilhelm, Hofphotograph ”, later owner Julius Staegemann.
  • in Cologne from 1896 to approx. 1906 at Hohestrasse 55 (later Hohestrasse 111a ).
  • in Potsdam, Humboldtstr. 1, later owner C. Wohlatz

On the back of some photographs, Munich is indicated as the studio location.

After the bankruptcy of “W. Höffert ”, the operators have continued the studios at some locations using the name“ W. [ilhelm] Höffert Nachf. [Olger] ”, for example in Leipzig the photographers E. & M. Foerstner (or Förstner) initially in Schloßgasse 1 / At the corner of Petersbrücke , from 1906 to 1907 at Barfußgasse 15 , in Düsseldorf and in Hamburg Johann Kagel from 1903 to 1906 in Alstertor 14/16. The 1903 address book of the city of Bonn lists the photographer Ferd [inand] Bauer in Coblenzerstr. 8a as the owner of “W. Höffert ".

Well-known assistants and apprentices

Before opening his own studio in 1891, the photographer Nicola Perscheid was employed as a photographer's assistant for two years in Höffert's Dresden studio on Seestrasse.

In the years 1894/95, the later successful photographer Hugo Erfurth completed a one-year apprenticeship at Höffert.

Court photographer

literature

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Höffert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Photographic Correspondence  - Sources and Full Texts
Wikisource: Address Books  - Sources and Full Texts

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c Anders Nylander, LarsOlof Lööf and Regine Richter (Deutsche Fotothek): Portraittfynd: picture i fullformat och möjlighet att göra en commentary , in: www.genealogi.se ; on-line
  2. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 925 No. 2712, p. 396 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ The Almanac for Friends of Dramatic Art , which appeared annually over a longer period of time, named a Sch. [Auspieler] Höffert and a Mad. [Ame] Sch. [Auspielerin] Höffert as the only bearers of the name with a few exceptions. There is evidence that they played (several mentions in Sundine: entertainment paper together with literature and intelligence paper for New Western Pomerania and Rügen; born 1833, Wilhelm Hauschildt, Stralsund ( urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10618025-0 BSB)) 1832 and in 1833 in the theater in Stralsund .
  4. ↑ Ladies , (Mad. Höffert). In: L. Wolff (Hrsg.): Almanach für Freunde der Schauspielkunst to the year 1840 , Sittenfeld, 1841, p. 432, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D8rtNAAAAcAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA432~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D , (Elise Höffert is mentioned under children's roles. She was the sister of Wilhelm Höffert)
  5. ↑ Harald Schieckel: Central Germans in the Land of Oldenburg II . In: Oldenburger Jahrbuch , Volume 67, 1968, p. 51 [58], urn : nbn: de: gbv: 45: 1-3267 .
  6. ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
  7. ↑ Anna Löhn-Siegel: The Only Daughter of Ludwig Devrient’s , p. 63. (She published this statement by Emilie Höffert in 1885, who had died in 1857. The author Anna Löhn-Siegel had performed with Emilie Höffert at the court theater in Oldenburg for two years .)
  8. ^ First entry "Höffert, EFW Hugo, Photograph, Marienstrasse 10, pt." In the name register of the Dresden address book from 1864, ( online , SLUB).
  9. ↑ Notes on the names of the operators can be found e.g. T. in the registers for street names of the address books.
  10. ^ In the name register of the Dresden address book from 1876, Ehefr. Mila is managed as an authorized signatory in the company W. Höffert, ( online , SLUB).
  11. ↑ Mentioned in: Hanni Schwarz : Photography as a woman's job . In: Hermann Wilhelm Vogel (Ed.): Photographische Mitteilungen . 45th year Gustav Schmist, Berlin 1905, p. 162, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dbub_gb_4xo_AAAAYAAJ~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3Dn275~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D .
  12. ^ Höffert ("Wilhelm Hoffert, Dresden") was accompanied by a 30-year-old "Mrs. Wilhelm Hoffert "and a 2 year old child" Jeta Hoffert ": Ellis Island Foundation (web links)
  13. ↑ The New York Public Library (web links)
  14. ↑ A photograph by Helen Castle Mead (wife of George Herbert Mead, professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.), Possibly made in Chicago: Photographie , (University of Chicago Library, Archival Photographic Files)
  15. ↑ He also indicated as a portrait painter.
  16. ↑ Susanne Hose: Wjela (Wehle), Jan (Johann), from 1847 Jan Radyserb-Wjela (pseudonym: Žarin, Mrowjan). In: Saxon Biography. Institute for Saxon History and Folklore V., March 17, 2014, accessed October 29, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Copy of a lapel "W. Höffert owner Ludwig Höffert & Mila Höffert court photographer… H. d. Prince Friedr. Leopold v. Prussia, Sr. Hoh. d. Prince Maximilian v. Baden, court photographer Sr. Majesty the Elder King of Saxony & Sr. Kgl. Hey d. Grand Duke v. Mecklenburg., Hanover Georgstrasse, Dresden Leipzig Hamburg Magdeburg “( online , University of Kassel), further source: Address book of the purveyors to the court in the Kingdom of Saxony , 1904, Höffert, P. Ludw., Court photographer for the Kingdom of Prussia, at the same time Sr. Majesty of the German Emperor, Schöneberg , (also of Prince Leopold of Prussia) page 12; Höffert, M. Verw. Court photographer of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Dresden, page 14; Höffert, P. Ludw., Court photographer of the King of Great Britain, page 18; ( Digitized , SLUB).
  18. ↑ On the insolvency of the company W. Höffert / takeover by (department store) Herzfeld . In: Süddeutschen Photographen-Verein eV, seat in Munich (ed.): Photographic art . tape 2 , 1903, ZDB -ID 1091797-4 , p. 80 ff., 375, 404 . and the Höffert case . In: Wiener Freie Photographen-Zeitung . tape 6 . Vienna 1903, p. 56-57 ( onb.ac.at ).
  19. ↑ Misc . In: Der Photograph , 14th year, No. 28, Hanover, 1904, p. 111.
  20. ↑ On the reverse of some photographs, house number 21 is also given. So far there have been no references to this in the address books.
  21. ↑ Wilhelm Höffert was apparently the first to run a studio in a department store. Source: Jeanne Rehnig: What is that, a studio in a department store . In: Dr. Irene Ziehe (ed.): Photographs of everyday life - photography as everyday life . Münster 2004, p. 200 (proceedings for the conference of the photography commission of the German Society for Folklore and the History and Archives section of the German Society for Photography in the Museum of European Cultures from November 15 to 17, 2002). , Page 200, ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DaQKqp5eMGZ0C~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA200~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D )
  22. ↑ Horst Milde, page 146.
  23. ↑ The studio was opened at the end of 1903 due to Fire hazard closed after Herzfeld acquired the studio. (Source: Miscellaneous . In: Der Photograph , 13th year, no. 48, Hanover, 1903, p. 190)
  24. ^ For the first time in the name register of the Leipzig address book from 1870 W. Höffert was mentioned with the address Thomaskirchhof ( online , SLUB). With the house number 24 a building (Kasternr. 567b) was mentioned, which was probably used as a photographic studio in the years before. In the lists of street names in the following years, the photographer F. [riedrich] Manecke was initially stated as the owner and from 1871 as the operator of a studio G. [eorg] Brokesch , from 1875 W. Höffert was listed as the owner ( online , SLUB). G. Brokesch was the managing director of photograph from 1871 to 1875. W. Höffert's studios listed in the address books. Later entries in the business directory contained the information that it was a trading company. The Thomaskirchhof studio was opened for a few years from 1877 by a photographer “B [ohuwjer]. Wehle ”(source: address books), which could have been W. Höffert's brother-in-law. The lapels were titled: Promenade , " vis-à-vis the Centralhalle ". B. Wehle also ran studios in Dresden and Elberfeld.
  25. ↑ See the name register of the Leipzig address book from 1876 with address Schlossgasse 16, ( online , SLUB).
  26. ↑ Last entry in address book 1905.
  27. ↑ In 1883 the numbering of the buildings in the Schlossgasse was probably changed by placing the even digits on one side of the street and the odd digits on the other. So in 1883 Schlossgasse 16 became Schlossgasse 1, ( online , SLUB).
  28. ^ For the first time in the name register of the Chemnitz address book from 1872 W. Höffert was mentioned with the address Zwickauerstraße 1 im Garten , ( online , SLUB). The lapels were titled: at the local "Nicolaiapotheke".
  29. ↑ The last entry in the address book was in 1893.
  30. ^ Presumably from 1882 Leopold Rudolph Fleck continued the business under the name W. Höffert ( online , SLUB). In 1889, Auguste Ernestine Fleck became the owner of the business after her husband died (Bez. Wwe. In the address book). Their last entry was made in 1891. The street directory led until 1891 under the cadastral number. 155 the house number 18, from 1892 the house number 34, where Höffert's studio had been in a back building (HG).
  31. ↑ The stay in Karlsruhe only lasted 2 years, if you take the information in the address books as a guide. Julius Stöl (t) zner was also listed as a photographer under the address “Hirschstarsse 36” during the two years ( online , SU ). In 1877 Carl Schade ran the studio.
  32. ↑ Back , Fedor Rinck, Deutsche Fotothek
  33. ↑ TV IV, ( online ).
  34. ^ "Wilhelm Höffert Nachf., Owner C. Wohlatz", in: Photographische Correspondenz , 1913, p. 323.
  35. ↑ To the annual figures of Prof. Dr. Sibylle Einholz (Berlin photography studios) there are contradicting information, because the last entry is W. Höffert Photograph. Art establishment with address Unter den Linden 24 in the name register in the Berlin address book from 1904 (p. 727) and in the branch register in the address book from 1903 (p. 243).
  36. ↑ Towards the end of 1903, on behalf of the Dresden bankruptcy administrator, Judicial Councilor Dr. Thürmer, the studio and its inventory will be sold for 12,500 Mk. There was no bidder. (Source: Miscellaneous . In: Der Photograph , 13th vol., No. 40, Hanover, 1903, p. 158)
  37. ↑ From 1885 the numbering was changed. The address "Jungfernstieg 6" was then no. 12. The rear building also had the address "Poststrasse 5". This was also the address of the photographer Ludwig Bernitt until 1895. He may have been the managing director or operator of the W. Höffert photographic studio in Hamburg.
  38. ↑ The indication of three street names gives the impression that there are several studios. But this was not so. The rear building Jungfernstieg 6 had an additional entrance from the city water mill 5 (source: Thorsten Bölck: The "Mühlen Canal" - a tunnel from Hamburg's Inner Alster to the Bleichenfleet , in: Christoph Ohlig (ed.): Hamburg - the Elbe and the water and others Water history contributions from the series of writings of the German Water History Society (DWhG) eV, Volume 13, BoD, Siegburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-2347-3 , p. 44). The well-known Hamburg photographer Heinrich Friedrich Plate used this studio from 1858 to 1880.
  39. ↑ Mr. Johann Kagel buys the studio and continues it under the existing name (source: Ateliernachrichten . In: Der Photograph , 13th vol., No. 37, Hanover, 1903, p. 146).
  40. ^ Advertisement in the General-Anzeiger Bonn of July 30, 1900, p. 1, address books Bonn 1900–1902
  41. ^ Photographers, Bonn.
  42. ^ First verifiable entry in the Cologne address book. The digitally available address books for Cologne are z. Currently not complete, u. a. the year 1900 is missing.
  43. ↑ From the 1901 edition, Balthasar Blum and Caspar Ditger were also mentioned. Blum was verifiable as a photographer and therefore wsh. The operator of the photographic studio, partner Ditger was, according to an earlier entry, a bar host. For a time there was also a “Blum & Höffert” photographic studio.
  44. ^ Presumably Julius Staegemann, owner of the company W. Höffert Nachf., Alleestrasse 40, Düsseldorf.
  45. ^ Kai Deecke: Photographers and their studios in Hamburg from 1855 to 1915, mentions in the editions of the Hamburg address books , self-published, Hamburg, 2012.
  46. ↑ p. 196, compare the information from the Verein für Computergenealogie .
  47. ↑ Katja Schumann: Nicola Perscheid (1864–1930). Research on a professional photographer in the context of art photography around 1900 , (the results of her master's thesis presented at the TU Dresden in 2003). Lecture (on the occasion of the Hermann Krone Prize 2004, on September 27, 2004), [abridged version], ( online ).
  48. ↑ Photographische Correspondenz , Volume 47, 1910, p. 545.
  49. ↑ Bodo von Dewitz , Karin Schuller-Procopovici (ed.): Hugo Erfurth, 1874–1948. Photographer between tradition and modernity. Wienand, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-87909-312-1
  50. ^ For the first time in the name register of the Dresden address book from 1873 the title Hofphotograph SKH d. Crown Prince Albert mentioned, ( online , SLUB).
  51. ↑ Award of court titles. In: Ministry of the Royal House. Saxon State Archives, accessed on October 23, 2018 .
  52. ↑ To this end, W. Höffert will probably have stayed in his Berlin studio several times and over a longer period of time.
  53. ↑ Compare the illustration of the lapel with three coats of arms and: inscription on the GenWiki side
  54. ↑ Among the 15 photographs by Höffert in the possession of the Meiningen Theater Museum (also: “Zauberwelt der Kulisse”) there is one in cabinet format with a half-length portrait of the actor Josef Kainz depicting all four coats of arms ( online ( memento from September 25, 2015 in Internet Archive ), Museum Digital Thuringia).
  55. ↑ a b address books of Hanover, population register
  56. ^ In the Berlin address books of 1895
personal data
SURNAME Höffert, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Höffert, Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1901
Place of death Wiesbaden