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HomeContents > People > Photographers > Hermann Krone

Names:
Joint: HK 
Dates:  1827, 14 September - 1916, 27 September
Born:  Silesia, Breslau [now Poland, Wroclaw]
Died:  Germany, Laubegast (nr. Dresden)
Active:  Germany
 
  
German photographer and printmaker.
His collection is held by the Institut für Angewandte Photophysik - Institute of Applied Photophysics (Dresden).
 
The collection includes a series of 141 didactic panels in German created by Krone containing 1,100 photographs which outline the history of photography upto 1896. This is a little known collection of great significance.

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Hermann Krone
Self-portrait by Hermann Krone (1827-1916) 
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Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. Go to website
Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist. 
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Printed biographies

The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers.

 
• Auer, Michele & Michel 1985 Encyclopedie Internationale Des Photographes de 1839 a Nos Jours / Photographers Encylopaedia International 1839 to the present (Hermance, Editions Camera Obscura) 2 volumes [A classic reference work for biographical information on photographers.] 
  
• Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of Photography (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. - A Pound Press Book) p.287 
  
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press)  [Includes a short biography on Hermann Krone.] 
  
 

Useful printed stuff

If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here.

 
• Gruber, Renate and L. Fritz Gruber 1982 The Imaginary Photo Museum (New York: Harmony Books) p.252 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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