Dr. Emil Mayer (3 October 1871 – 8 June 1938) was an Austrian photographer, lawyer, inventor, and businessperson.
Biography Early life Emil Mayer was born on 3 October 1871 in Neubydzow, Bohemia (now Nový Bydžov, Czech Republic) to Leopold and Anna Mayer. In the summer of 1882, Mayer moved with his family to Vienna, Austria, where “his father set up business as a merchant.”
From 1891 to 1896, Mayer studied law at the University of Vienna, where he earned the Juris Doctor.
Personal life
While still a student, Mayer left the Jewish community and converted to Catholicism. On 8 March 1894 he was baptized at the under the name Robert Emil. The painter was his godfather.
Marriage On 6 June 1903 he married Elisabeth Deutsch (18 March 1882 – 8 June 1938).
Death To escape persecution from the Nazi regime after the annexation of Austria in March 1938, Mayer and his wife died by suicide in their home (BöcklinStraße 12) in Vienna on 8 June 1938.ÖBL
Career
After Mayer completed his studies at the University of Vienna, he established a law practice at Salvatorgasse 10 in Vienna.
Mayer's first experience in photography was as an amateur, and he was a member of several Viennese photographer associations that focused on artistic photography. His artistic photos include documentary images of Wienerstraße images.Brandstätter
Mayer was an honorary member of many domestic and foreign photographers' clubs. He also authored a textbook and was awarded several patents for photographic devices.
DREM-Zentrale Finally, Mayer left the law firm and founded a photographic technology company DREM-Zentrale with Nikolaus Benedik. The company's name was an abbreviation of DR. E. Mayer. International branches of the company included, DREM Products Corporation in New York and DREM Products Ltd. in London, England.
Published works 1912 – Wurstelprater by Felix Salten with 75 photographs by Emil Mayer. 1912 – Das Bromöldruckverfahren. Halle a.S.: Knapp, 1912. 1923 – Bromoil Printing and Bromoil Transfer. Boston, Mass: American Photographic Publishing Co., 1923. Translated from the seventh German edition by Frank Roy Fraprie, FRPS (1874 – 1951), editor of American Photography. 1927 – Bromöldruck und -Umdruck. (Enzyklopädie der Photographie; 81). 10. und 11. ergänzte Auflage. Knapp, Halle (Saale) 1927. 1927 – "A Manual of Bromoil & Transfer." Practical Photography, no. 12, 1927. Translated by Joseph M. Bing.
Honors, awards and distinctions
Photographic Society of Philadelphia – Honorary Member, 13 December 1927
Gallery
See also
Oil print process Street photography
References Notes
Sources
Further reading (Catalog of the exhibition Prater Cinema World: Film Pleasures in the Old Prater at the Pratermuseum, Vienna, July 8-September 18, 2005).
(Ein Vortrag Emil Mayers über den Wiener Wurstelprater wurde im (ÖVA) wiederentdeckt).
Catalog of an exhibition at Kulturhaus, Graz; Museum des Zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts (Museum of the Twentieth Century), Vienna; Galerie im Taxis-Palais, Innsbruck, 1973–1974.
External links
The Royal Photographic Society. The Photographic Journal. vol. 65 (Nov. 1925, p. 498), vol. 66 (1926), vol. 67 (1927), vol. 68 (1928), vol. 70 (1930), vol. 74 (1934), 78 (1938), vol. 87 (1947). Emil Mayer at Albertina (Vienna, Austria) Elisabeth Mayer at Albertina (Vienna, Austria) Emil Mayer at Biobibliografie zur Fotografie in Österreich der Albertina (Vienna, Austria) Elisabeth Mayer at Biobibliografie zur Fotografie in Österreich der Albertina (Vienna, Austria) Emil Mayer at Austrian Theatre Museum (Theatermuseum Wien) (Vienna, Austria) Emil Mayer at Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut) Emil Mayer at George Eastman Museum (Rochester, New York) Emil Mayer at Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, Massachusetts) Emil Mayer at Lee Gallery (Winchester, Massachusetts) Emil Mayer at Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York) (MoMA) (New York City, New York) Emil Mayer at Vienna Museum (Wien Museum) (Vienna, Austria) Emil Mayer at Österreichisches Volkshochschularchiv (Vienna, Austria). Color photograph in collection.