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Hugo Erfurth, Herbert Eulenberg, paper, oil print, image size: height: 28,7 cm; width: 22,4 cm, signed: recto and left: carved: Hugo Erfurth Dresden, stamp: verso o. in the middle: HUGO ERFURTH, KÖLN, DOMKLOSTER 1, GOLDSCHMIDTHAUS, HUGO ERFURTH, DRESDEN, ZINZENDORFSTR 11 [crossed out in lead], label: verso lower right: picture with text framing: 19 WIEN, PHOTOGRAPHIC A[, not legible, label damaged in half], upper right in lead: 1924, (according to B. Lohse); upper center in lead: No. 1 Herbert Eulenberg; center with blue colored pencil: 109-1; lower left: picture with text framing: 19 WIEN, PHOTOGRAPHISCHE A[ left with red colored pencil: 125/1, portrait photography, writer, poet, author, portrait, half-length portrait, eyeglasses, glasses, writing by hand, writing as an activity, scholar, philosopher, Herbert Eulenberg, At the beginning of the 20th century, Hugo Erfurth is one of the most famous professional photographers in Germany, along with Rudolph Dührkoop 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 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, whereby the technique o.
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