Theodor Hofmeister

Nationality

German

Lifetime

1868-1943

Biography

Theodor Hofmeister German, 1868-1943; and Oskar Hofmeister German, 1871-1937 Theodor Hofmeister, a wholesale merchant, and his brother Oskar, a secretary of the county court, were born in Hamburg. Around 1895 they became amateur photographers, specializing in figure studies and landscapes. Working as a team, they exhibited their prints under joint authorship and soon became leading members of the local amateur photographic society. By 1897 they had begun to produce gum bichromate prints almost exclusively. In July 1904 six of the Hofmeister brothers' photographs were reproduced in Camera Work, and two years later Alfred Stieglitz included them in a show of Austrian and German photography at the Photo-Secession Galleries in New York. They were elected to membership in the Linked Ring in 1908, and in 1910 their work appeared in the important International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography at the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo. M.M.

Artworks

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Camera Work

A. Horsley Hinton

Alfred Stieglitz

Alice M. Boughton

Alvin Langdon Coburn

Anne W. Brigman

Arthur Allen Lewis

Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore

Baron Adolph de Meyer

C. Yarnall Abbott

Clarence H. White

David Octavius Hill

E.M. Bane

Edward Steichen

Ema Spencer

Eva Watson-Schutze

F. Benedict Herzog

Francis Bruguière

Frank Eugene

Frederick H. Evans

Frederick H. Pratt

George Davison

George Bernard Shaw

George H. Seeley

Gertrude Käsebier

Guido Rey

Hans Watzek

Harold Mortimer-Lamb

Harry Rubincam

Heinrich Kuehn

Herbert G. French

Hugo Henneberg

J. Craig Annan

John Francis Strauss

Joseph T. Keiley

Julia Margaret Cameron

Karl F. Struss

Marshall R. Kernochan

Oskar Hofmeister

Paul Strand

Paul B. Haviland

Prescott Adamson

René Le Bègue

Robert Adamson

Robert Demachy

Sarah C. Sears

Theodor Hofmeister

W.W. Renwick

William B. Dyer

William B. Post

William E. Wilmerding