Wilhelm Hammerschmidt (photographer)

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Anton Wilhelm Hammerschmidt (born March 3, 1822 in Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia , † August 26, 1887 in Friedrichshagen, today Berlin-Friedrichshagen ) was a German photographer of the 19th century.

Life

origin

Wilhelm Hammerschmidt was born on March 3rd, 1822 at Rosenthaler Straße 9 in Berlin as the illegitimate son of Dorothee Marie Hammerschmidt. He married on October 14, 1852 in Berlin as a merchant in Cairo Henriette Wilhelmine Albertine geb. Hampel from Berlin.

Act

At the end of the 1850s, Hammerschmidt lived and worked in Berlin at the address No. 1 Neu Schönerberg. Around 1860 he and the Braun brothers opened a studio in the Egyptian capital, Cairo . His studio had a good reputation, he was hired by tourists as a travel companion and made both studio recordings and pictures in front of the pyramids of Giza . His travels in the country took him up the Nile to Abu Simbel in Upper Egypt and on to Nubia in what is now Sudan .

Hammerschmidt became a member of the German Photographic Society (?) In 1860 . In 1861 he took part in an exhibition of the Société Française de Photographie , of which he became a member, with ten views from Egypt . In 1862, large-format prints of his pictures were shown at the World Exhibition in London . In 1867 he exhibited photographs of people from Egypt in local costumes and folklore studies at the Exposition Universelle in Paris .

Hammerschmidt returned to Berlin in 1863, where he opened a studio at Potsdamer Straße 51 in 1864, which can be found in the address books until 1872. From 1873 to 1880 he can be found as a reindeer at Lützower Ufer 11, from 1881 as reindeer and district head of the 42nd city district at Lützow Platz 12 and from 1882 at Möckernstrasse 131.

Today some of his photographs are archived in various collections. These include, for example, the University of Jena in its Hilprecht collection of Near Eastern antiquities , the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) and the Getty Museum in California .

Publications

  • circa 1862: Monuments de l'Égypte ancienne et moderne .
  • 1862: Souvenirs d'Égypte .

Exhibitions

  • 1988: Agfa Photo Historama: On the sweet shores of Asia. Egypt, Palestine, Ottoman Empire. 19th Century Destinations in Early Photographs . Roman-Germanic Museum , Cologne.

Web links

Individual evidence

  • Schönherr, Markus: Wilhelm Hammerschmidt (1822–1887) - photographer in Cairo and Berlin , in: Zeitschrift für Mitteldeutsche Familiengeschichte, Issue 4 10–12 / 2019, pp. 224–227
  1. ↑ Church book of the Protestant Sophienkirche Berlin, baptisms 1822, No. 227
  2. ↑ Church book of the Protestant St. Georgen Church in Berlin, Marriage 1852, No. 589
  3. ^ Berlin address book 1863, AW Hammerschmidt, Photograph, in Neu-Schönberg 1; also: General address handbook for practicing photographers, Leipzig 1863, p. 11 (Berlin): Hammerschmidt, Neu-Schöneberg 1
  4. ↑ http://photolit.de/database/search.html?q=s%C3%BCssen+ufern+asiens
personal data
SURNAME Hammerschmidt, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1887
Place of death Berlin-Friedrichshagen