Hugo Erfurth; Felix Timmermans; from the album Ausstellung Hugo Erfurth - Bildnisse aus dem XX. Jahrhundert; Konstanz 1949; silver gelatin paper; black and white positive process; image size: height: 23;5 cm; width: 17;5 cm; dry stamp: recto u. left: HUGO ERFURTH [ not legible]; label: Passepartout recto and in the middle: in typescript on Japanese paper: Hugo Erfurth; 'Felix Timmermanns'; label: Passepartout verso and in the middle: in typescript: HUGO ERFURTH; Portrait Photography of Felix Timmermann; Shown in: 'Literaturtrubel um 1900' 'So they looked '; portrait photography; portrait; writer; poet; author; elbow; tobacco pipe; portrait; self-portrait of an artist; portrait; self-portrait of a painter; Felix Timmermans; At the beginning of the 20th century; Hugo Erfurth was one of the most famous professional photographers in Germany; alongside Rudolph D黨rkoop and Nicola Perscheid. After completing an apprenticeship as a photographer; he opened his own studio in Dresden at the age of only 22. Soon Erfurth orientated himself towards the up-and-coming pictorialist photography; participated in numerous amateur photographic exhibitions from 1894 onwards and managed to make a name for himself both as an artistically ennobled amateur and successful professional photographer. Portraits are central to his work; which he began taking in 1906 in his new studio; a classicist palace; in a stylishly elegant ambience; appealing to the wealthy bourgeoisie. He also produced numerous portraits of famous personalities; including K鋞he Kollwitz; Otto Dix and Joachim Ringelnatz. While his studies around 1905 still show full-length figures depicted in an atmospheric way; from the 1920s onward the focus is on the face; which is photographed against a simple monochrome background. Here; his pictorial approach corresponds to the portrait of classical modernism; whereby the technique of oil printing emphasizes the softness and materiality of the pigments and at the same time places th