Hugo Erfurth, Paul Horst-Schulze, paper, oil print, picture size: height: 19,8 cm; width: 26 cm, stamp: verso and right: HUGO ERFURTH, KÖLN, DOMKLOSTER, GOLDSCHMIDTHAUS2, top right in lead: Horst-Schulze, Leipz. Academy; lower left in lead: c. 1917, (according to Oehmen); upper left in black crayon: 110, label: verso lower right: picture with text framing: 19 WIEN, PHOTOGRAPHISCHE, label damaged in half], upper right in lead: 1924, (according to B. Lohse); upper middle in lead: No. 1 Herbert Eulenberg; in the middle in blue colored pencil: 109-1; lower left: picture with text framing: 19 WIEN, PHOTOGRAPHISCHE A[ left with red colored pencil: 125/1, portrait photography, portrait, self-portrait of an artist, portrait, artist, painting, portrait, self-portrait of a painter, specific poses, gestures, facial expressions, Paul Horst-Schulze, 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, where
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