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Contributing Institution:
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Title: Weltausstellung in Wien 1873
Creator:
Klösz, György
Creator:
Löwy, J. (Joseph), 1835-1902
Identifier/Call Number: 2002.R.13
Identifier/Call Number: /repositories/3/resources/230
Physical Description:
16 photographs
Date: 1873
Abstract: Sixteen photographs document exhibition buildings and exhibits of the 1873 Vienna
International Exhibition. The photgraphs are credited variously to György Klösz, Oscar Kramer, and Josef Löwy.
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Language of Material: Collection material is in German, English, and French.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection comprises 16 interior and exterior views of the Vienna International Exposition of 1873 taken by György Klösz
(8), Oscar Kramer (4), and
Josef Löwy (2). The photographers for two of the images have not been identified. Included are a view of the Industry Palace
from the west and a view of
its south gate; views of the Monaco, Kaiser, Swedish Hunt, and Russian Kaiser pavilions; and a view of the east gate of the
Art Hall. Three photographs
show sculptures by Italian artists.
Fourteen mounts bear a letterpress crest above the image with text: Viribus Unitis. The photographs are numbered and captioned
in the negative in
German. All but two mounts are printed with the name of the exposition in German, French, and English below the image, along
with the credit:
Photographie und Verlag der concessionirten Wiener Photographen-Association. Image titles are taken from the negative.
Arranged by the processer in a single series: Series I. Weltausstellung in Wien 1873.
The photographs in the collection are by György Klösz, Oscar Kramer, and Josef Löwy. These men were three of the six members
of the Viennese
Photographers Association which held the photographic concession for the 1873 Vienna International Exhibition.
György Klösz (Johann Georg Justus Kloess, 1844-1913) was born in Darmstadt, Germany. After studying pharmacy, chemistry, and
photography he moved to
Vienna and worked in the photography studio of Hermann Heid. He took over the Budapest operations of Heid and his partner,
Ferdinand Ronninger, in 1867.
In the 1870s, he was one of the first Hungarian photographers to take photographs of the city of Budapest and other outdoor
locations. While he
continued to be a prolific photographer, Klösz also branched out to other businesses. In 1879, he set up a lithographic printing
press and started to
produce reproductions. Between 1890 and 1894, he was co-owner of
Budapest Visitors' Magazine. Klösz taught his son Pal
photography and in 1903 made him co-owner of his business.
Josef Löwy (1834 Pressburg (Bratislava), Slovakia-1902 Vienna, Austria) was a painter, publisher, and photographer. In 1848,
Löwy moved to Vienna,
where he first learned lithography and then studied painting at the Vienna Academy. He opened his first photography studio
in Vienna in 1856,
specializing in portraits, nudes, and landscapes. In 1861, he joined the Viennese Photographischen Gesellschaft, and in 1864
he participated in Vienna's
first photographic exhibition. Löwy was one of the early users of the collodion process in Vienna, and in 1885, he founded
an unsuccessful dry plate
production business with Josef Plener. After his death Löwy's company was continued by his widow, Mathilde Löwy, until her
death in 1908, at which time
their nephew, Gustav Löwy, took it over, operating it under the name Kunstanstalt J. Löwy.
Oscar Kramer (1834-1892, Vienna) was a photographer; a dealer in photographic supplies, photographs, and art; and a publisher
of photographs. He lived
and studied in Berlin as a child, but returned to Vienna in the mid-1850s where he opened a photographic supply business in
1856. Kramer became a member
of the Vienna Photographische Gesellschaft in 1861, and along with Ludwig Schrank, founded
Photographische Correspondenz
magazine in 1864, which in short order became the mouthpiece for the Photographische Gesellschaft. In 1873, Kramer became
the co-founder and commercial
director of the Vienna Photographers Association. The organization was responsible for taking over 2,200 photographs of the
1873 Vienna International
Exhibition, but was dissolved the following year due to financial difficulties.
Sources consulted:
Durstmüller. "Löwy Josef, Photograf," in:
Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950, vol. 5. Vienna: Verlag der
Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1972.
Hannavy, John.
Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. New York, London: Routledge, 2013.
Mahler Foundation. "Josef Lowy (1834-1902)." https://mahlerfoundation.org/mahler/contemporaries/josef-lowy/
Shilpa Rele processed the collection and wrote the finding aid in 2008. Beth Ann Guynn updated the finding aid in 2020.
Acquired in 2002.
Weltausstellung in Wien, 1873. Research Library, The Getty Research Insititute, Accession no. 2002.R.13
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2002r13
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Vienna (Austria) -- Description
Exhibition buildings -- Austria -- Vienna
Sculpture -- Italy -- 19th century
Albumen prints -- Austia -- 19th century
Kramer, Oscar
Vienna International Exhibition (Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1873).)