Hugo Erfurth; Paul Klee; Staatliche Landesbildstelle Hamburg; collection on the history of photography; paper; oil print; image size: height: 38.4 cm; width: 27.6 cm; dry stamp; HUGO ERFURTH; DRESDEN 1928; GDL; o. in lead: K 59 Atelier; No. 1 Portrait of Paul Klee Hugo Erfurth Dresden; o. in blue colored pencil: 602e [crossed out in lead]; lower right in lead: 26 label: cardboard: top left in typewriter: Hugo Erfurth; Paul Klee; lower right in typescript: HUGO ERFURTH (1874-1948): PORTR腡 PAUL KLEE; oil print; inv. no. 256; inscribed: cardboard and: in lead: oil print; cabinet 14/15; upper drawer; stamp: cardboard and right: inventory stamp of the Staatliche Landesbildstelle; handwritten in lead supplemented: 256; inscribed: Passepartout o. left in lead: 220; right in lead: 233; portrait photography; portrait; historical person; artist; painting; 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 modernis