Presumably inspired by the architectural drawings and etchings of the Nuremberg priest Christoph Jacob Wilder, Georg Schmidt began training at the Nuremberg Art School between 1828-1831 and he completed his schooling at the Munich Art Academy. From 1839 he settled in Nuremberg as an art and portrait painter. In 1846 he also set up a photographic studio and as of 1852 he referred to himself only as a photographer. The atmospheric salt paper prints by Georg Schmidt offered here and in the following two lots 4060-4061 are therefore among the earliest photographic city views of Nuremberg and are very rare today.
