Hugo Erfurth, Büxenstein & Company, Gotthard Kühl, paper, heliogravure, image size: height: 17,3 cm; width: 12,2 cm, signed and dated: recto o. r.: exposed: Hugo Erfurth 1910, inscribed: recto at the lower platemark: in engraved typescript, lower right: Georg Büxenstein & Comp, Berlin hel, Photogr. Mitteilungen, 1910; lower left: HUGO ERFURTH, DRESDEN, inscribed: recto lower right: in lead: 12, upper right in lead: portrait of Gotthard Kühl, (photogravure after rubber, print), old inv. Nos.; and in the middle with black ink: repro: 38988, stamp: verso below: cabinet and box stamp, handwritten in lead: 26, 30; Landesbildstelle Hamburg, handwritten with blue ink: box 29/12, portrait photography, old man, accessories, accessories of clothing, At the beginning of the 20th century, the collection was inscribed: 26, 30; inscribed: top right in lead: 12, inscribed: o. r. in lead: 12, inscribed: o. r. in lead: 12, inscribed: 12. Along with Rudolph Dührkoop and Nicola Perscheid, Hugo Erfurth is 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 Käthe 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 correspo
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