| Names: | Born: Nikloaus Perscheid
Other: N. Perscheid
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| | Dates: | 1864, 3 December - 1930, 12 May | | Born: | Germany, Moselweiss (Moselweiß) | | Active: | Germany |
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From Opentopia:
Nicola Perscheid (December 3, 1864 – May 12, 1930) was a German photographer. He is primarily known for his artistic portrait photography. He developed the "Perscheid lens", a soft-focus lens for large-format portrait photography. He was born as Nikloaus Perscheid in Moselweiß near Koblenz, Germany, where he also went to school. At the age of 15, he began an apprenticeship as a photographer. Subsequently, Perscheid earned his living as an itinerant photographer; he worked, amongst other places, in Saarbrücken, Trier, and Colmar, but also in Nice, Vienna, or Budapest. In Klagenfurt in Austria he finally found a permanent position and on March 1, 1887, he became a member of the Photographic Society of Vienna (Wiener Photographische Gesellschaft). In 1889, he moved to Dresden, where he initially worked in the studio of Wilhelm Höffert, a well-known studio in Germany at that time, before opening his own studio in Görlitz on June 6, 1891. The next year he was appointed court photographer at the court of Albert, King of Saxony. In 1894, Perscheid moved to Leipzig.
Perscheid had his first publication of an image of his in a renowned photography magazine in 1897, and subsequently participated in many exhibitions and also had contacts with artist Max Klinger. As an established and well-known photographer, he moved in 1905 to Berlin. There, he experimented with early techniques for color photography, without much success, and when his assistant Arthur Benda left him in 1907, Perscheid gave up these experiments altogether. His portraits, however, won him several important prizes, but apparently were not an economic success: he sold his studio on June 24, 1912.
(Source: http://encycl.opentopia.com/term/Nicola_Perscheid, April 11, 2007)
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