Hugo Erfurth; Wilhelm Steinhausen; Staatliche Landesbildstelle Hamburg; collection on the history of photography; paper; oil print; image size: height: 39;6 cm; width: 29;4 cm; inscribed: verso o. in the middle: in lead: Steinhausen; label: left inner side of the passepartouts and in the center: typewritten: 405 Hugo Erfurth; Germany (1874-1948); Wilhelm Steinhausen; oil print; 1902 or 1910; inscribed: inside right of passepartouts: top left in lead: hugo erfurth; steinhausen; 1902 or 1910 (according to oehmen); lower right in lead: cat. No. 405; portrait photography; portrait; artist; portrait; self-portrait of an artist; hat; portrait; self-portrait of a painter; Wilhelm Steinhausen; At the beginning of the 20th century; Hugo Erfurth; along with Rudolph D黨rkoop and Nicola Perscheid; was one of the most famous professional photographers in Germany. After completing an apprenticeship as a photographer; he opened his own studio in Dresden at the age of only 22. Soon Erfurth orientated himself towards the up-and-coming pictorialist photography; participated in numerous amateur photographic exhibitions from 1894 onwards and managed to make a name for himself both as an artistically ennobled amateur and successful professional photographer. Portraits are central to his work; which he began taking in 1906 in his new studio; a classicist palace; in a stylishly elegant ambience; appealing to the wealthy bourgeoisie. He also produced numerous portraits of famous personalities; including K鋞he Kollwitz; Otto Dix and Joachim Ringelnatz. While his studies around 1905 still show full-length figures depicted in an atmospheric way; from the 1920s onward the focus is on the face; which is photographed against a simple monochrome background. Here; his pictorial approach corresponds to the portrait of classical modernism; whereby the technique of oil printing emphasizes the softness and materiality of the pigments and at the same time places the portraits in the art-photographic
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