Alfred Enke, Suisse, Sandalenbinderin

Alfred Enke, Suisse, Sandalenbinderin

Original vintage print. Alfred Enke (1852-1937) inherited the publishing company of his father Ferdinand Enke in 1874 and moved with his business to Stuttgart (Germany) the same year. He was one of the few wealthy amateur’s who took up the new pictorialist style in photography around 1890. Although he didn’t take part in any of the great contemporary exhibitions of photography in Germany in Hamburg or Berlin, he seems to have exhibited in the early years of the 20th cent. in England (see: British Journal of Photography vol. 52 (1905), pp. 44 and vol. 60 (1913), pp. 175; The Amateur Photographer vol. 47 (1908)). Being wealthy there was no need for him to exhibit and to propagate his work. It was possible for him to show his work in two published portfolio’s which he published in his own publishing work: Lichtbild-Studien. Dreissig Heliogravüren nach Aufnahmen von Alfred Enke.- Stuttgart, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft [1899] (Heidtmann 13707) and Neue LichtbildStudien. 40 Bilder in Tondruck.- Stuttgart: Verlag von Alfred Enke, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1902. (Heidtmann 13708) Some of his images were also published in periodicals, like Gartenlaube (1901) or in books like Spiegelnde Lichter (1900).

Tirage argentique d'époque

27,5x37

Circa 1880