Carl Ferdinand Stelzner (1805-1894)

Aliases: Carl Ferdinand Steltzner; C. F. Stelzner; Carl Stelzner

Professions: Painter; Photographer

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  Carl Ferdinand Stelzner (German, 1805/6-1894) A Lady, seated, wearing black dress with gold clasp at the waist, short beret sleeves, transparent gauze over-sleeves, long gold earrings, purple shawl with embroidered floral border over her left arm and

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  Carl Ferdinand Stelzner (German, 1805/6-1894)

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  Stelzner, Carl Ferdinand: Portrait of Harro Harring

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Carl Ferdinand Stelzner Biography

(b Grömnitz, 30 Dec 1805; d Hamburg, 23 Oct 1894). German photographer and painter. He was educated by his foster-father, the painter Carl Gottlob Stelzner (fl 1805–31). In 1829 and in 1831–4 Stelzner visited Paris, where he studied miniature portrait painting, and also travelled in other European countries. In 1837 he settled in Hamburg, visiting Paris again in 1839, where he learnt the daguerreotype process from Daguerre. He founded his own studio in Hamburg with Hermann Biow in 1842. His partnership with Biow lasted only a year. Stelzner’s own portrait business was particularly known for its extraordinary lively arrangements and for the hand-tinted images that his first wife Anna Carolina Stelzner (1808–75) produced. He became one of the most productive and artistically assured photographers of Hamburg. From 1854 he also made paper prints of his photographs but was thwarted by failing eyesight; his business continued from 1858 to 1862, when Stelzner was almost blind, with the help of assistants. Stelzner was a member of the Künstlerverein in Hamburg.

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