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Johan Georg Heinrich Ludwig Tønnies (or ''Tönnies'') (10 May 1825 – 11 December 1903) was an early German-Danish photographer who had a studio in
He also took photographs of soldiers in uniform. especially at the time of the
Examples of Tønnies' work from Flickr
Johan Georg Heinrich Ludwig Tønnies (or ''Tönnies'') (10 May 1825 – 11 December 1903) was an early German-Danish photographer who had a studio in Aalborg
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Biography
Born in Grünenplan,Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
, he was trained as a glass painter and cutter.
He moved to Denmark in the 1850s where he learnt the art of daguerreotypy
Daguerreotype (; french: daguerréotype) was the first publicly available photographic process; it was widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. "Daguerreotype" also refers to an image created through this process.
Invented by Louis Daguerre an ...
from the Berlin photographer C. Fritsche in Aalborg
Aalborg (, , ) is Denmark's fourth largest town (behind Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Odense) with a population of 119,862 (1 July 2022) in the town proper and an urban population of 143,598 (1 July 2022). As of 1 July 2022, the Municipality of Aalb ...
and from Wilhelm Schrøder in Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
. He opened a photographic studio in Aalborg
Aalborg (, , ) is Denmark's fourth largest town (behind Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Odense) with a population of 119,862 (1 July 2022) in the town proper and an urban population of 143,598 (1 July 2022). As of 1 July 2022, the Municipality of Aalb ...
where he soon specialised in the carte-de-visite
The ''carte de visite'' (, visiting card), abbreviated CdV, was a type of small photograph which was patented in Paris by photographer André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri in 1854, although first used by Louis Dodero. Each photograph was the size of ...
technique as it facilitated the production of prints. Most of his work was concentrated on portraits although he also took many landscapes. His photographs often presented people in their working clothes rather than formally dressed for the occasion.
He also took photographs of soldiers in uniform. especially at the time of the Second Schleswig War
The Second Schleswig War ( da, Krigen i 1864; german: Deutsch-Dänischer Krieg) also sometimes known as the Dano-Prussian War or Prusso-Danish War was the second military conflict over the Schleswig-Holstein Question of the nineteenth century. T ...
in 1864. Like Georg Emil Hansen, Tønnies travelled to the area and photographed many Danish soldiers before they went off to fight.Dansk Fotohistorie, ed Mette Sandbye. Gyldendal, 2004, p.49.
See also
*Photography in Denmark
In Denmark, photography has developed from strong participation and interest in the very beginnings of the art in 1839 to the success of a considerable number of Danes in the world of photography today.
Pioneers Mads Alstrup and Georg Emil H ...
*History of photography
The history of photography began in remote antiquity with the discovery of two critical principles: camera obscura image projection and the observation that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. There are no artifacts or de ...
References
External links
Examples of Tønnies' work from Flickr
Biography
* Allard, Alexander Sr. ''Heinrich Tönnies: Cartes-de-Visite Photographer Extraordinaire'', New York: Camera/Graphic Arts Ltd, 1978. . (dual English/Danish text) {{DEFAULTSORT:Tonnies, Heinrich 1825 births 1903 deaths 19th-century Danish photographers Photographers from Lower Saxony Pioneers of photography People from Aalborg