Ida Johanne Hesbeck (2 September 1873 – 25 March 1927) was a Danish photographer. From 1915 to 1927, she ran a successful portrait studio in

Holte Holte is a suburban district in Rudersdal Municipality on the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. The local town centre is centred on Holte station and is surrounded by extensive areas of single-family, detached homes as well as several l ...

, north of Copenhagen.

Biography

Born in

Varde Varde is a Danish city in southwestern Jutland and is the primary city in the municipality of Varde, in Region of Southern Denmark. In 2015 municipality changed its motto to "We in nature" to emphasize its rural atmosphere. The town has an old ma ...

, Jutland, Hesbeck was the daughter of a merchant, Christoffer Johannes Hesbeck. She trained as a photographer under

Peter Elfelt Peter Elfelt (1 January 1866 – 18 February 1931) was a Denmark, Danish photographer and film director known as the first movie pioneer in Denmark when he began making documentary films in 1897. Biography Peter Elfelt was born Peter Lars Pete ...

, who employed her from 1905 to 1914. In 1914, she moved to

Søllerød Municipality Until 1 January 2007 Søllerød was a municipality ( Danish, '' kommune'') in Copenhagen County on the east coast of the island of Zealand (''Sjælland'') in eastern Denmark. The municipality covered an area of 39.77 km², and had a total ...

, where she opened a business on Esthersvej, Ny Holte, in a property she later purchased. She produced portraits and on occasion contributed to the local newspaper, ''Søllerød Tidende''. After she died in Holte in 1927, her business was taken over by the photographer Ella Bach, who ran it until the late 1970s.Jesper Boysen, "Ida Johanne Hesbeck: Fotograf i Holte 1915 – 1927"
. Retrieved 27 March 2013. In the early 1980s, when the building was due to be demolished, a large collection of Hesbeck's photographs was found. Consisting of some four thousand 12 × 8 cm photographic plates as well as around four hundred 16.5 × 12 negatives taken from 1915 to 1927, the photographs consist mainly of individual portraits and groups. There were also some 300 stereoscope negatives of various sizes taken between 1895 and 1915. All her works are clearly identified with a number corresponding to the order, with the name and address of the person portrayed. While generally quite traditional, her photographs are of a high quality. Some benefitted from artificial lighting and shadow effects. She also took a number of photographs of dogs.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hesbeck, Johanne 19th-century Danish photographers 1873 births 1927 deaths Danish women photographers Portrait photographers People from Varde Municipality People from Rudersdal Municipality 19th-century women photographers