Hugo Erfurth; Walter Tiemann; Staatliche Landesbildstelle Hamburg; collection on the history of photography; paper; bromoil print; image size: height: 28;7 cm; width: 22;3 cm; signed and dated: recto: engraved in the print: Hugo Erfurth 1912; inscribed: Karton verso: in the middle in lead: LBH; u.: Repro-No; stamp: 1st carton verso and right: handwritten with ballpoint pen added: 311; inscribed: 2nd carton verso and left: in lead: Hugo Erfurth 1912; No. 311 Oeldruck Walter Tiemann (1876-1951); inscribed: inside right passepartoutside and : in lead: Hugo Erfurth bromoil print 1918; portrait photography; artist; portrait; half-length portrait; portrait; self-portrait of an artist; portrait; self-portrait of a painter; Walter Tiemann; At the beginning of the 20th century Hugo Erfurth was one of the most famous professional photographers in Germany; alongside Rudolph D黨rkoop 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 K鋞he 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 of oil printing emphasizes the softness and materiality of the pigments and at the same time p