Adolph Braun
ADOLPH BRAUN
Floral Print, ca. 1860, albumen print, 7 9/16 x 9 1/8.
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ADOLPH BRAUN
View of the Alps, ca. 1866-67, carbon print, ca. 1866-67, 9 x 19 3/16.
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ADOLPH BRAUN
Costumes de Suisse, ca. 1860s, hand tinted albumen
print, 11.1” x
8.7”. |
A.D. BRAUN,
“Costumes de Suisse Canton de Berne”, ca. 1860s, hand tinted albumen print, 11.2” x 8.7”. |
Adolph Braun, French, 1812-1877
Born in southern Alsace in 1812, Adolph Braun was first a textile designer in Paris and then his hometown of Mulhouse before finally pursuing photography in the 1850s. Braun's artistic talent as a draftsman and his knowledge of chemistry gave him an advantage in this new endeavor. His first major work was a series of floral photographs, compiled into a book of three hundred plates and shown to the Academie des Sciences in Paris. Despite the fact that the images were intended to be models for textile design, the series was recognized as an artistic achievement and introduced Braun into the world of French photography. Following the current trends of landscape photography, Braun began making images of the views and monuments of his native Alsace. He also made stereoscopic cards of Germany and Switzerland, which brought him financial success. Over the course of the next decade, Braun made thousands of stereoscopic cards admired by tourists and photographers alike. Throughout the 1860s and into the 1870s Braun covered a wide variety of subjects from local costumes to still-life compositions to the destruction and aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War. One of Braun's final ventures was into the realm of art reproduction. With his skill at producing superior prints and the use of a more permanent carbon printing process, Braun and his studio gained critical acclaim. Adolph Braun's life and career finally came to an end in 1877, but his photography studio outlived him by many years.
For more information, see Image and Enterprise: The Photographs of Adolphe Braun by Maureen O'Brien, Thames & Hudson Ltd, London, 2000.
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