Hugo Erfurth...

Hugo Erfurth, Heinrich Vogeler, Staatliche Landesbildstelle Hamburg, collection on the history of photography, paper, pigment print, image size: height: 22,8 cm; width: 15,7 cm, signed, in lead: Hugo Erfurth, inscribed: verso u. li.: in blue ink Hugo Erfurth, stamp: verso u. in the middle: added by hand in blue ink: B218/3, label: inside left passepartoutside: in printed type: 420 Hugo Erfurth, Germany (1874-1948), Heinrich Vogeler, Chamois color pigment print, approx. 1912, label: verso carpet pad top left: in typescript: 218/3, Hugo Erfurth; Hugo Erfurth, Heinrich Vogeler (1872-1942), pigment print, c. 1912, stamp: verso carpet pad top left : handwritten in blue ink added: B218/3, portrait photography, portrait, artist, work clothes, hat, standing figure, full-length portrait, portrait, self-portrait of an artist, portrait, self-portrait of a painter, Heinrich Vogeler, At the beginning of the 20th century Hugo Erfurth was 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 portra