Jenny Bossard-Biow
Illustration — Familie am Kaffeetisch, daguerreotype by Jenny Bossard, 1849 Jenny Bossard-Biow (c. 1813 – after 1858) was an early German female photographer, possibly the first woman in Germany to have worked with the daguerreotype process. She was the sister of the photographer Hermann Biow who had established a studio in the Altona district of Hamburg in 1841.
Jenny Bossard-Biow
Jenny Bossard (fl. 1850) · Public domain
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- Jenny Bossard-Biow was born in 1813. · Wrocław.
- Died
- Jenny Bossard-Biow died in 1858.
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- Kingdom of Prussia
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- photographer
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Familie am Kaffeetisch, daguerreotype by Jenny Bossard, 1849 Jenny Bossard-Biow (c. 1813 – after 1858) was an early German female photographer, possibly the first woman in Germany to have worked with the daguerreotype process. She was the sister of the photographer Hermann Biow who had established a studio in the Altona district of Hamburg in 1841.
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When he moved to Dresden in 1848, Bossard-Biow continued to run the Hamburg studio.
The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Hamburg.
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Jenny Bossard-Biow was born at Wrocław.
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- 1.Aron Heppner: Zur Jahrhundertfeier der Storch-Synagoge am 23. April (20. Nissan) 1929. In: Breslauer Jüdisches Gemeindeblatt. Amtliches Blatt der Synagogengemeinde zu Breslau, Jg. 6 (1929), Nr. 5 (April), S. 59–61 (Web-Ressource).
- 2.Vgl. die Angaben des bei FamilySearch ausgewerteten Sterbeeintrags ihrer Schwester Bluma Biow (1804–1870), späteren Berta Maria Elisabeth Zimmerlich (Web-Ressource, nach Anmeldung entgeltfrei zugänglich).
- 3.Wilhelm Weimar: Die Daguerreotypie in Hamburg 1839–1860, S. 21
- 4.Im Hamburger Adressbuch sind in den Personen- und Straßenverzeichnissen Einträge für „H. Biow, Porträtmaler, Neuer Wall 52“ (bis 1844 Nr. 24) von 1844 bis 1850 einschließlich zu finden.
- 5.Günther Meinert: Heinrich Boshardt, ein Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts, in: Kunst- und Denkmalpflege in Schlesien. Niederschlesien. Flemmings Verlag, Breslau-Lissa 1939, S. 174–182, Digitalisat
- 6.Andere Schreibweise: Bossard.
- 7.R. Schlegel (Nekrolog), in Photographische Chronik, 14. Jg., 1907, . (Dessen Sohn Raphael Arthur Schlegel wurde ebenso Fotograf. Er übernahm 1898 das eingeführte Geschäft von August Adler in Dresden.)
- 8.Rüdiger Articus: Carl Hermann Biow 1803–1850 (Teil 2). S. 11
- 9.23.07.1850 Wandsb., siehe Peter Dörling, Norderstedt / Germany, 2004, Genealogie Stormarn, Namenindex Frauen Buchstabe Bi - Bo, (Digitalisat). Abweichend dazu: „... Frau Bossard, die sich im Jahre 1849 zum zweiten Male mit Julius Schlegel verheiratete, ...“, Wilhelm Weimar: Die Daguerreotypie in Hamburg 1839–1860, S. 22.
- 10.Heirath–Anzeige. In: Hamburger Nachrichten. 26. Juli 1850, S. [4], Digitalisat
- 11.In Hamburg lässt sich ein weiterer „Carl Julius Schlegel“ nachweisen, der am 1. Februar 1850 Hamburger Bürger wurde (Hamburger Nachrichten. 4. Februar 1850, S. 2) und ab 1851 im Personenverzeichnis der Hamburger Adressbüchern Einträge als Commis und anschließend als Waaren-Makler (für Coffee etc.) von 1855 bis 1857 hatte.
- 12.Korrespondenz. In: Didaskalia. 1851, Nr. 24, 28. Januar, S. [4], ( )
- 13.In het Daguerreotype Atelier (Anzeige). In: Dagblad van 's Gravenhage. 13. October 1851, S. 4, (Digitalisat)
- 14.Amtlicher Catalog der Ausstellung der im Reichsrathe Vertretenen Koenigreiche und Länder Oesterreichs. Gruppe XII, Section V. Photographien, Verlag der General-Direction, Wien 1873, S. 353, ( ). Es sind Revers mit Adresse Gotha, Auguststraße 3 und „Hofphotograph seiner Hoheit des Kronprinzen von Sachsen“ bekannt.
- 15.Edictal-Vorladung. In: Dresdner Anzeiger und Tageblatt. 19. Dezember 1851, S. 1, (Digitalisat)
- 16.Erwin Hintze: Schlesische Miniaturmaler des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. In: Jahrbuch des schlesischen Museums für Kunstgewerbe und Altertümer. Band 3, Breslau 1904, S. 148, ( )
- 17.Der Oberschlesische Wanderer. 1853, Jg. 26, No. 27, 5. Juli 1853, S. 2, (Digitalisat)
- 18.Fritz Kempe. Daguerreotypie in Deutschland. Vom Charme der frühen Fotografie. 1979. 3-7763-5190-X.
- 19.Wilhelm Weimar: Die Daguerreotypie in Hamburg 1839–1860, S. 44.
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