Wilhelm Kuntzemüller

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Kuntzemüller with his children in the studio (around 1890)
Kaiser Wilhelm I (1884)

Wilhelm Kuntzemüller (born May 25, 1845 in Zielenzig , † April 10, 1918 in Baden-Baden ) was a German photographer .

Life

Wilhelm Kuntzemüller's father was a councilor from the province of Brandenburg . He attended the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin .

In 1876 he moved from Berlin to Baden-Baden and took over the studio of the painter and photographer August Rißler, which at that time was located on Eisenbahnstrasse. In 1879 the move to the newly built atelier at Friedrichsstrasse 1 followed, which was located opposite the Messmer Hotel, where the imperial couple used to stay on visits.

Wilhelm Kuntzemüller was the court photographer of Prince Georg of Prussia and Landgrave Friedrich Wilhelm von Hessen-Rumpenheim . In 1881 he was appointed Grand Duke of Baden's court photographer, and in 1882 he was appointed court photographer to His Majesty the German Emperor and King of Prussia. In 1887 he created a souvenir picture for the officers of the Royal Grenadier Regiment on behalf of the Imperial Private Chancellery. To do this, he retouched a photograph of the emperor in the uniform of the 1st Guards Regiment on the helmet, epaulettes and collar to make the uniform of the Royal Grenadiers. Kuntzemüller was friends with the sculptor Joseph von Kopf . As a representative of the Progressive People's Party , Kuntzemüller was elected to the Baden-Baden Citizens' Committee in the 1880s .

Despite his prominent clientele, like three quarters of the residents of Baden-Baden, he was one of the minimum taxpayers. He only employed a studio assistant and enabled her son to train. With his wife Helene (born August 29, 1852 as Helene Hertz; † November 16, 1919), whom he married on August 15, 1878, he had three children: his daughter Charlotte supported Kuntzemüller temporarily in the studio and took it over after his death in the Year 1918. In 1924 she sold it to the photographer Hugo Kühn. His eldest son Albert Kuntzemüller (1880–1956) became a high school teacher, senior high school director and a well-known railway historian. The son August Kuntzemüller (born April 1, 1892 - October 17, 1982) became Dipl.-Ing. for mechanical engineering and later worked at the Baden-Baden works office (tram and mountain railway) and at Siemens-Schuckert .

reception

"But, to tell the truth, the recordings of Kuntzemüller, whom I knew as a child as a friendly, white-bearded gentleman, are among the best of his time and speak at the point where historians fall silent."

- Reinhold Schneider (1957)

literature

  • Elisabeth Haug: Good light! Photography in Baden 1840–1930 Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe 2003, ISBN 3-923132-90-5 , p. 95.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Reiner Haehling von Lanzenauer : Albert Kuntzemüller, the railway historian from Baden-Baden. in: Aquae , Baden-Baden 2005, ISSN  0175-4858 , p. 67.
  2. ↑ Annual report on the Königl. Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium 1861, p. 71.
  3. ↑ Reinhold Schneider: The balcony. Notes of a loiter in Baden-Baden. Insel, Wiesbaden 1957, p. 160.

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personal data
SURNAME Kuntzemüller, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Targeted
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1918
Place of death Baden-Baden