Hugo Erfurth; Mrs. Hettner; Staatliche Landesbildstelle Hamburg; collection on the history of photography; silver gelatine paper; black and white positive process; image size: height: 30;5 cm; width: 23;2 cm; signed: recto o. right: in lead: Hugo Erfurth; inscribed: verso at lower margin: in lead: Hettner; inscribed: inside left passepartout side below left: in lead: No. B 218/6; Hettner; label: verso passepartout above left: in typescript No. B218/6; Hugo Erfurth; Hettner; Stamp: verso Passepartout o. l.: added by hand in blue ink: B218/6; Portrait photography; woman; portrait; bust; three-quarter view; necklace; Jeanne Thibert; 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 places the portraits in the art-photographic tradition. Erfurth is a co-founder of the Gesellschaft Deuts