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 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 portra