Albert Steiner

Albert Steiner Albert Steiner Hirsbrunner (born 4 January 1877 in Frutigen, † June 4, 1965 ibid ) reformed, hometown entitled in Linden, was a Swiss photographer.

Life

Albert Steiner, the son of a master baker Christian Steiner and Albertine, born Rieder, began after he had broken off a baker's apprentice in his father's business after a short time, a photographic apprenticeship with Jean Mögle in Thun, which he interrupted by a one-year employment in the Federal ammunition factory of Thun, 1897 graduated. Steiner joined in the same year to a place at the Geneva photographer Fred Boissonnas, in the following year he took over after the death of his father parental bakery. 1901 Albert Steiner was given another job at Boissonnas which he gave up in 1904 to take over at Rue Faller 6 in Geneva, running their own business. In 1905 he moved to Bern, where he led, together with his brother Hermann a studio.

1906 Steiner moved to St. Moritz, where he was first employed by the photographer Walther Küpfer before 1909 opened his own photo studio. Albert Steiner, who also led a small portrait studio, moved into a new 1924, large studio in the former restaurant " Innfall " which he gave in 1950 his son Hans. Steiner, 1910 Helene, born Hirsbrunner, daughter of a traveling salesman married, died in 1965 88 -year-old in Frutigen.

Albert Steiner became particularly apparent by landscape shots from the Engadine, which belong to the meistreproduzierten their time. This the highest technical and aesthetic standards sufficient recordings have underpinned the image of Switzerland as an alpine country and abroad.

Publications (selection )

• Engadine landscapes. Fretz Verlag, Zurich, 1927.
• Snow, winter, sun. Red apple -Verlag, Erlenbach near Zurich 1930.
• With Gottardo Segantini: The Four Seasons. Words and pictures. Red apple -Verlag, Erlenbach near Zurich in 1938.
• With Karl Foerster: Flowers on Europe's battlements. Words and pictures. 12th Edition, red apple -Verlag, Erlenbach near Zurich in 1949.