Auguste Salzmann
AUGUSTE SALZMANN
“Jerusalem”, 1854-1856, salt print, paper negative,
9 x 13.
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AUGUSTE SALZMANN
“Tombeau Arabe”, 1854-56, salt print, paper
negative, 9 1/16 x 13.
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AUGUSTE SALZMANN
“Pins de Convent Armenien, Jerusalem”, ca. 1850s, salt print, paper
negative , 9 1/4 x 13. |
AUGUSTE
SALZMANN
“Jerusalem, Details de la Porte d’un Dome Sepulcral”,
1854, Balnquart-Evrard salt print from paper negative, 1854, 8.8 x 12.8. |
AUGUSTE SALZMANN
“Jerusalem,” Vallee de Hinnom, Vue Generale, 1854, salt print, paper negative, 9 1/4 x 13.
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AUGUSTE SALZMANN
“Jerusalem, Eglise Sainte Anne”, 1854, salt print, paper negative, ca. 1850s, 9 x 12 3/4. |
AUGUSTE SALZMANN
“Jerusalem, Sainte Sepulchre Colonne du Parvis”, 1853-54, Balnquart-Evrard
salt print from paper negative. |
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Auguste Salzmann, French, 1824-1872
Salzmann was born in 1824 in Alsace, France and first began his artistic career as a painter, studying under his brother Henri-Gustave. In 1847, 1849 and 1850 Salzmann had his paintings exhibited in the Paris Salon. One of Salzmann's primary interests was archaeology, and this prompted him to visit the Holy Land in 1854 on a mission sponsored by the Ministry of Public Interest. His journey was cut short by illness, but he had managed to make 150 calotypes of historical monuments in Egypt and Jerusalem. After returning from the Middle East Salzmann entrusted his plates to Blanquart-Evrard who published two photographically illustrated volumes on Jerusalem. Although his main area of interest was in archaeology, he was an accomplished photographer and made technically refined salt prints. In 1855 he won a second place medal in Paris for his photographs of Palestine. Throughout the 1860s he devoted himself to archaeological work in Rhodes and continued to photograph. Salzmann passed away in Paris in 1872.
For more information, see MacMillan Biographical Encyclopedia of Photographic Artists & Innovators, MacMillan Publishing Company, 1983.
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