Henriette Homann
Henriette Olava "Jette" Homann (3 January 1819 – 11 February 1892) was a Norwegian photographer and painter. She was one of the first female photographers in Norway.
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Henriette Homann
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- Birth Name
- Henriette Olava Homann
- Born
- 3 January 1819
- Birthplace
- Kragerø, Telemark, Norway
- Died
- 11 February 1892
- Place of death
- Christiania, Norway
- Occupation
- Photographer, painter
- Nationality
- Norway
- Teachers
- Johan Gørbitz
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Henriette Olava "Jette" Homann (3 January 1819 – 11 February 1892) was a Norwegian photographer and painter. She was one of the first female photographers in Norway.
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Henriette Homann (1819–1892) was a draftsperson, painter and photographer, of Norwegian nationality. The draftsperson was born in Kragerø and died in Oslo.
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• Birth Name — Henriette Olava Homann • Born — 3 January 1819 • Birthplace — Kragerø, Telemark, Norway • Died — 11 February 1892 • Place of death — Christiania, Norway • Other Names — Jette Homann, Henriette Homann the Elder • Occupation — Photographer, painter
Early life
Early life
Henriette Olava Homann was born on 3 January 1819 in Kragerø to doctor Christian Horrebow Homann (1786–1860) and Boel Catherine Biørn. Homann is sometimes referred to as Henriette Homann the Elder or Jette Homann to distinguish her from her niece, Henriette Homann the Younger, who later inherited her photographic equipment, books and negatives.
Career
Career
• Illustration — Henriette "Jette" Homann by Carl Joh. Hanssen taken c. 1860 Between 1843 and 1844, Homann was a pupil of Johan Gørbitz, who had previously painted her father's portrait, and trained as a portrait painter. Homann later specialised in drawn portraits. Among her subjects was her mother Boel, her brother-in-law Anton Martin Schweigaard and her brother Peter Jacob Homann. She also painted oil sketches in the style of Adolph Tidemand. In Christiania, she had a studio in Karl Johans gate, where she also worked with Daguerreotype photography, which her teacher Gørbitz had begun working with in 1845. Homann's oldest photograph is dated 1851. In 1866, she returned to Kragerø, where she devoted herself to looking after the house and children of her brother Christian Horrebow Homann the Younger.
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Homann died on 11 February 1892 in Christiania, at the age of 73. Her funeral took place nine days later on 20 February. Around 100 of her drawings and paintings are held at the Berg-Kragerø Museum, as well as several of her photographs and property. They were bequeathed to the museum by her niece Henriette Homann the Younger in 1943.
Photograph of Henriette "Jette" Homann by Carl Joh. Hanssen taken c. 1860
Carl Joh. Hanssen · Oslo Museum
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- 1.Erlandsen, Roger. Pas nu paa! : nu tar jeg fra hullet!. I samarbeid med Norges fotografforbund. 51. 2000. 8291780021.
- 2.Kragerø kirkebøker, AV/SAKO-A-278/F/Fa/L0004: Ministerialbok nr. 4, 1814-1831, s. 28. Digitalarkivet. 28.
- 3.Bonge, Susanne. Eldre norske fotografer : fotografer og amatørfotografer i Norge frem til 1920. Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen. 182. 1980. 8271300148.
- 4.Wichstrøm, Anne. Kvinneliv, kunstnerliv : kvinnelige malere i Norge før 1900. Gyldendal. 210. 1997. 8205193622.
- 5.Aaserud, Anne. Landet der sitroner gror : Johan Christian Dahl, Thomas Fearnley og Johan Gørbitz i Syd-Italia. Nordnorsk kunstmuseum. 39. 2005. 8291834253.
- 6.Wichstrøm, Anne. Jette Homann. Norsk Kustner-Leksikon.
- 7.Bekjendtgjorelser. Kragerø Tidende. 3. 16 February 1892.
- 8.Kragerø Tidende, lørdag 20. februar 1892. Kragerø Tidende. 3. 20 February 1892.
- 9.Erlandsen. Norske fotosamlinger 1989-90. Ad Notam forlag. 154. 1989. 8241700121.
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