Hugo Erfurth; Max Slevogt; Staatliche Landesbildstelle Hamburg; collection on the history of photography; paper; oil print; image size: height: 27.3 cm; width: 20.8 cm; stamp: verso lower right: HUGO ERFURTH; K諰N 7 DOMKLOSTER 1; GOLDSCHMIDTHAUS; HUGO ERFURTH; DRESDEN; ZINZENDORFSTR. 11; handwritten in lead added: Z177; label: cardboard verso: in typescript: Hugo Erfurth; Slevogt; Label: cardboard box verso: in typescript Hugo Erfurth; Slevogt; inscribed: cardboard verso: upper left in lead: 1925 (according to P. Oehmen); lower center in lead: oil pigment; stamp: cardboard verso: lower left: stamp of the State Picture Department; lower right: inventory stamp of the State Picture Department; added in pen: 248; inscribed: cardboard verso: upper left in lead: 1925 (according to P. Oehmen); lower right: inventory stamp of the State Picture Department; added in pen: 248; label: cardboard verso: upper left in lead: 1925 (according to P. Oehmen); lower right: inventory stamp of the State Picture Department; added in pen: 248; label: cardboard verso: upper left in lead: 1925 (according to P. Oehmen) P. Oehmen); and in the center in lead: oil pigment; portrait photography; portrait; artist; portrait; self-portrait of an artist; bust; en profil; portrait; self-portrait of a painter; Max Slevogt; At the beginning of the 20th century; Hugo Erfurth was one of the most famous professional photographers in Germany; along with 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 a