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ID: 500029510
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500029510

 

Record Type: Person
Martens, Friedrich von (French photographer of German origin, 1809-1875)

Note: Martens, a steel engraver, was active in Paris, France, from the mid 1830s. From 1840 to 1842, he made engravings of city views, and also engraved several plates from daguerreotypes from Lerebours' book "Excursions daguerriennes". In 1845, Martens invented a panoramic camera and photographed the Swiss Alps and the Louvre in Paris. In 1855, Martens photographed the regions around Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc, in Switzerland and France. In 1855, he was also appointed Photographer to the Cabinet of the Emperor. Martens worked with Léon Méhédin and Jean-Charles Langlois to produce a presentation album of the Crimean War for the French Emperor. Martens printed all of the negatives taken in the Crimea by Langlois.

Names:
Martens, Friedrich von (preferred,V,index)
Friedrich von Martens (V,display)
Martens, Eidrich von (V)
Martens, Frédéric (V)
Martens, Frédéric von (V)
Martens, Frederick von (V)
Martens, Fridiric (V)
Von Martens, Friedrich (V,Dutch-P,NA)
Martens, Frederic Von (V)
Frederic Von Martens (V)
Martens, Friederich von (U)
Friederich von Martens (U)
Martens, Vincent Frédéric de (U)

Nationalities:
French (preferred)
German
Swiss

Roles:
artist (preferred)
photographer
etcher
printmaker

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Venice (Venezia province, Veneto, Italy) (inhabited place)
Died:  Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   1846 - 1961  Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
collaborated with ....  Langlois, Jean Charles  
................................  (French painter and military officer, 1789-1870) [500032275]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Martens, Friedrich von (I)

Biographies:
(French photographer of German origin, 1809-1875) ..... [VP Preferred]
(French (b. Italy), 1809-1875 (also Langlois, Mehedin & Martens)) ..... [JPGM]
(French photographer, 1809-1875) ..... [BHA]
(French and German photographer and steel engraver; born Germany, ca. 1809; died Paris (France), 1875) ..... [CCA]
(German artist, 1809-1875) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(French printmaker, 1809-1875) ..... [Grove Art]
(German photographer, 1809-1875) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Frederic Von Martens ........ [VP, WL-Courtauld]
.........................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Friederich von Martens ........ [Grove Art, VP]
............................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Friedrich von Martens ........ [CCA]
..........................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Martens, Eidrich von ........ [CCA]
........................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Martens, Frédéric ........ [CCA, RKD]
....................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 378857
Martens, Frederick von ........ [JPGM Preferred]
............................................  Getty Museum, Authority file (2003-)
Martens, Frédéric von ........ [CCA]
..........................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Martens, Frederic Von ........ [WL-Courtauld Preferred]
...........................................  Witt Library, Authority files
Martens, Fridiric ........ [CCA]
....................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Martens, Friederich von ........ [Grove Art Preferred]
..............................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
Martens, Friedrich von ........ [BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, RKD]
............................................  Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
............................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 378857
Martens, Vincent Frédéric de ........ [RKD]
.......................................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 378857
Von Martens, Friedrich ........ [CCA, RKD Preferred]
.............................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
.............................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 378857

Subject: ........ [BHA, CCA, Grove Art, JPGM, RKD, VP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985)
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
....................  Getty Museum, Authority file (2003-)
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Grove Art Online (2008-) accessed 23 April 2013
....................  Jammes and Janis, Art of French Calotype (1983) 199, 213-214
....................  Johnson, Nineteenth-Century Photography (1990)
....................  Magelhaes, Evolutie van de Kreatieve Fotografie (1968)
....................  McCauley, Industrial Madness (1994) 306
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 378857
....................  Sobieszek, Photography from the George Eastman House Collection (1985) 40-41
....................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q246549
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [CCA, WL-Courtauld]
.......... Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985)
.......... Jammes and Janis, Art of French Calotype (1983) 199
.......... Johnson, Nineteenth-Century Photography (1990)
.......... McCauley, Industrial Madness (1994)
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