Hermann Krone

Hermann Krone (*Dec. 14th 1825 Breslau (=Wroclaw), +Sept. 27th 1916) was the most famous German photographer of the 19th century. He began as talbotypist in 1943, and soon became daguerreotypist. After his apprenticeship he moved to Dresden where he opened an own studio. He founded the Institut für Daguerreotypien und photographische Bilder auf Glas and opened two photographic art-shops in the city. He became professor for photography at the Polytechnikum and later at the technical University. Famous are his early landscape photos, maybe the first image series of this genre in Germany. But he made also portraits and town images. Krone was the high-class practical photographer in that city full of ingenious photography technology makers.