Hugo Erfurth; double portrait of mother and son; paper; pigment print; image size: height: 26;5 cm; width: 19 cm; signed and dated; in lead: Hugo Erfurth 1911; inscribed cardboard recto below the print: 11; inscribed: Karton verso u. li.: in ink: Hugo Erfurth; 1911; label: Karton verso u. in the middle: in typescript Hugo Erfurth; Dresden/Cologne; double portrait of mother and son; brown pigment print; 1911; stamp: cardboard on verso and in the middle; ; lower right: Inventa stamp of the Staatliche Landesbildstelle Hamburg; handwritten in blue ink: Box 29/11; lower margin: location of the Staatliche Landesbildstelle Hamburg; handwritten in lead: 26; 30; portrait photography; portrait; mother; son; double portrait; full-length portrait; artist and his family; At the beginning of the 20th century; the artist's name was on the back of the box. 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; wh