Johan Georg Heinrich Ludwig Tønnies (or ''Tönnies'') (10 May 1825 – 11 December 1903) was an early German-Danish photographer who had a studio in

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Born in

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, he was trained as a glass painter and cutter. He moved to Denmark in the 1850s where he learnt the art of daguerreotypy from the Berlin photographer C. Fritsche in

and from Wilhelm Schrøder in

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. He opened a photographic studio in

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 ...

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. Jens Bangs Stenhus i Aalborg

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 Georg Emil Hansen (12 May 1833, Naestved – 21 December 1891, Frederiksberg) was one of Denmark's pioneering photographers in the second half of the 19th century. He had his own studio in Copenhagen and later became a successful court photographe ...

, 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.

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Examples of Tønnies' work from Flickr

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* 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

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