Hugo Erfurth...

Hugo Erfurth, Thuringian peasants, paper, platinum printing, image size: height: 11.2 cm; width: 15.7 cm, inscribed and dated: Cardboard recto above and below the print: in brown ink: 93, H. Erfurth, Dresden, inscribed: cardboard verso: lower left in dark brown ink: Box 9 Thuringian Peasants; lower left with black felt-tip pen: Hugo Erfurth, Dresden, repro no, inscribed: cardboard back side: lower left in dark brown ink: Box 9 Thuringian peasants; lower left with black felt-tip pen: Hugo Erfurth, Dresden, repro no, stamp: cardboard back side and right: handwritten with ballpoint pen added: 311, stamp: cardboard back side: and in the middle, ; lower right: handwritten in blue ink supplemented: box 29/11; at the bottom: location of the Staatliche Landesbildstelle Hamburg, handwritten in lead supplemented: 26, 30, portrait photography, group portrait, folk costume, regional costume, inn, coffee house, pub, rural life, At the beginning of the 20th century, the state of Hamburg was the only state to have an inventory stamp. Century ranks Hugo Erfurth beside Rudolph Dührkoop and Nicola Perscheid among the most well-known occupation 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 Käthe 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 fa