G. de Weydemann
G. de Weydemann
We do not know much about the photographer G. Weydemann. Only that he had had a studio in the Rue de la Visitation no 4 in Paris in the middle of the 19th century and that he had taken a series of stereoscopic views from 1856/57 onwards, containing views from Upper Italy, Switzerland and Tirol. A French daily newspaper mentions his excursion to the Tirol and Switzerland in 1857 in a short note. His photographs are rather difficult to identify since the cardboard carrying them exhibit no hint of a photographer and the numbering was only applied written in hand on the back side. Furthermore, also the Tirolean views are additionally and misleadingly called „Suisse“ and very often depict sole views of nature, such as woodland and details of glaciers, making it all even more intricate to identify. Actually, it can be assumed that the series of Tyrolean views must amount to about 24 pieces. Nearly all of these depict views of the Vinschgau into Meran. Only a view are said to show Cortina, unfortunately however, none of these has found its way to me yet. Anyway, these are very early landscape views – perhaps even the earliest – of the South Tyrol.
G. Weydemann
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