Hans Watzek

Nationality

Austrian

Lifetime

1848-1903

Biography

Hans Watzek Austrian, 1848-1903 Born Johann Josef Watzek in Bohemia, Hans Watzek was a pictorial photographer specializing in gum bichromate prints. After studying at art academies in Leipzig and Munich, Watzek became a professor of drawing in 1874. He joined the Vienna Camera Club in 1891 and two years later was elected to membership in the Linked Ring. Around 1894 Watzek befriended fellow Austrian pictorialists Hugo Henneberg and Heinrich Kuehn, and they began working closely. The group traveled, photographed, and exhibited together, becoming known as the Trifolium (Das Kleeblatt). Experimenting with the gum bichromate process, the three began making large-scale prints, often producing images measuring 2 x 3 feet. Watzek, the most innovative member of the group, built his own camera and wrote technical articles for the magazine Wiener Photographische Blätter. After his death, Watzek's work was reproduced in Camera Work (January 1906) and was exhibited by Alfred Stieglitz in his New York City gallery as well as in the 1910 International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography in Buffalo. M.M.

Artworks

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Camera Work: The White Sail

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Camera Work: Mountain Landscape

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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