Hugo Erfurth; Heinrich Vogeler; from the album Ausstellung Hugo Erfurth - Bildnisse aus dem XX. Jahrhundert; Konstanz 1949; silver gelatin paper; black and white positive process; retouched (stone processing); image size: height: 22;8 cm; width: 16;4 cm; stamp: recto u. right: HEINRICH VOGELER; KOELN GAIENHOFEN; label: Passepartout recto and in the middle: in typescript on Japan paper: Hugo Erfurth; 'Heinrich Vogeler-Worpswede'; inscribed: right inside of the modern passepartouts and : in lead: Hugo Erfurth; Heinrich Vogeler; silver gelatine; portrait photography; portrait; artist; portrait; self-portrait of an artist; portrait; self-portrait of a painter; standing figure; full-length portrait; hat; Heinrich Vogeler; At the beginning of the 20th century Hugo Erfurth was; along with Rudolph D黨rkoop and Nicola Perscheid; one of the most famous professional photographers in Germany. 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 places the por