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 Dührkoop 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 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 corresponds to the portrait of classical modernism, wh
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