| August Wilhelm Wedeking View of the commercial building of the portrait painter and photographer A.W. Wedeking in Bremen 1851-1852 Salt print 27 x 21,5 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions Auction 104, 3 December 2014, 19th - 21st Century Photography, Lot: 4081 LL/56080 After a longer peregrination August Wedeking, who was trained as a decorative and portrait painter in Munich, returned to his home city of Bremen in 1831 where he worked mainly as a portrait painter. Our photo shows his new 3-story commercial building, which he opened in 1849 (am Wall 74a), with the shop sign Photographisches Atelier von Wedeking and a smaller sign Porträtmaler u. Photograph next to the portal.
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