Hugo Erfurth; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; paper; oil print; image size: height: 38;4 cm; width: 27;6 cm; label: cardboard verso: top left in typescript: Hugo Erfurth added by hand in lead: Mies v. d. Rohe; lower right in typescript: HUGO ERFURTH (1874-1948): PORTRAIT MIES VAN DER ROHE; oil print; Inv. No. 263 A; inscribed: cardboard and: in lead: oil print; cabinet 14/15; upper drawer; stamp: cardboard and right: inventory stamp of the Staatliche Landesbildstelle; handwritten in lead supplemented: 263 A; inscribed: Passepartout o.: left in lead: 220; right in lead: 233; portrait photography; portrait; portrait; architect; portrait; self-portrait of an artist; portrait; en face; Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; At the beginning of the 20th century Hugo Erfurth was one of the most famous professional photographers in Germany; alongside Rudolph D黨rkoop and Nicola Perscheid. 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