Carl Durheim

Carl Durheim, 1850 (ca), Carl Durheim (1810-1890), self-portrait with camera, Calotype, hand-painted, Fondation Herzog, LL/57259

Carl Durheim

Other: Charles Durheim

Born: 1810 - France, Villiers-le-Bel
Died: 1890
Gender: Male
Active: Switzerland
 
Lithographer and photographer who introduced the Daguerreotype to Berne (1840/1841) and took portraits who some of some significant Swiss personalities. There is also an excellent hand-colored postmortem Daguerreotype of a child in the Getty collection (84.XT.267.9).

Genealogy of Carl Durheim

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