Hugo Erfurth; Maria Carmi; Staatliche Landesbildstelle Hamburg; collection on the history of photography; paper; oil print; image size: height: 21;2 cm; width: 15;5 cm; signed and dated: recto u. li.: in lead: Hugo Erfurth 1914; inscribed: verso on the cardboard: in lead: LBH; Erfurth; repro no; Stamp: verso and right on the cardboard: Landesbildstelle Hamburg; inscribed: verso and left on the passepartout: in lead: repro no; Measurements; Maria Carmi (1880-1957); with black felt-tip pen: Hugo Erfurth 1914; No. 311 oil print; stamp: verso passe and left: portrait photography; woman; fashion; clothing; full-length portrait; actor; actress; profile (side view); Maria Carmi; At the beginning of the 20th century; the artist's life was marked with a black felt-tip pen. 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