Photograper: Fraenkel jun., S. / L.J. Fraenkel (active in Hamburg mid-1840s/1850s in Hamburg). Two Male Portraits, one with an impressive painted backdrop of the Rhineland area. Late 1840s. 1 quarter-plate and 1 sixth-plate daguerreotype, both with ornamental blue paper surround with gilt decor, in taped glass and framed in contemporary ornamental wooden frames, backed later with paper and annotated in pencil.
S. Fraenkel jun. and his brother L.J. Fraenkel were among Germany's photographic pioneers of the new medium in northern Germany and were travelling portraitists before they founded a studio in Hamburg. As Jochen Voigt has pointed out, both brothers used specific blue paper surrounds and it is difficult to distinguish between the two brothers' early work as they worked closely together. The two separate portraits offered here are of a father and son (Jacob Heinrich Tode and Matthias Nissen Tode) whose family was obviously marked by tragedy. The image of the father with paper label annotated in German on the verso: "Fell overboard in the Mississippi River" (only partially legible on original label due to paper loss). The son had a relatively short life (annotated:"born 1831, died 1856" in German on verso). - Both with some oxidation along edges, man with backdrop with slight cleaning wipes and partial finger print on plate. Both have been professionally conserved and newly sealed.
Lit.: Jochen Voigt. Der gefrorene Augenblick. Daguerreotypie in Sachsen. 1839 - 1860. Chemnitz 2004, see p. 15.
S. Fraenkel jun. and his brother L.J. Fraenkel were among Germany's photographic pioneers of the new medium in northern Germany and were travelling portraitists before they founded a studio in Hamburg. As Jochen Voigt has pointed out, both brothers used specific blue paper surrounds and it is difficult to distinguish between the two brothers' early work as they worked closely together. The two separate portraits offered here are of a father and son (Jacob Heinrich Tode and Matthias Nissen Tode) whose family was obviously marked by tragedy. The image of the father with paper label annotated in German on the verso: "Fell overboard in the Mississippi River" (only partially legible on original label due to paper loss). The son had a relatively short life (annotated:"born 1831, died 1856" in German on verso). - Both with some oxidation along edges, man with backdrop with slight cleaning wipes and partial finger print on plate. Both have been professionally conserved and newly sealed.
Lit.: Jochen Voigt. Der gefrorene Augenblick. Daguerreotypie in Sachsen. 1839 - 1860. Chemnitz 2004, see p. 15.
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15th-20th Century Art & Fine Photography
6:00 AM PT - Jun 11th, 2008
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Galerie Bassenge
Erdener Str. 5a
Berlin, 14193
Berlin, 14193
