Wilhelm J. Burger
Wilhelm J. Burger ( born March 15, 1844 in Vienna, † March 7, 1920 ) was an Austrian photographer who mainly worked as a landscape photographer.
Life
Wilhelm Burger received his training as a painter at the art academies in Vienna and Munich. Later he was a student of Constantin von Ettingshausen and taught from 1864 to 1866 at the University of Vienna photography. In 1865, he joined the Photographic Society in Vienna. 1868-1870 burger was on the commercial scientific expedition in East Asia. His, made on these occasions, recordings are regarded as particularly fine examples of working with tannin dry plates. 1871 Burger was k.k. Hof -Photograph.
In 1872 he sailed with Count Wilczek on the " Isbjörn " to the islands at Novaya Zemlya, where he met with the S / X Admiral Tegetthoff, the ship of the polar expedition. From this meeting, he produced a series of stereoscopic, depicting the life on board and the individual members of the expedition. Burger also used at that time his home -built tannin dry plates. He also previously worked with the collodion process and with paper negatives. These were, unlike the tannin dry plates, and ten days after the preparation useful.
Count Wilczek also photographed on this expedition. 1881 Burger used on his expedition to Lycia and Caria already gelatin emulsion plates. With the invention of the dry plate it was now possible that on expeditions also could photograph amateurs.
1882 Burger began that dry plates are used on scientific expeditions. As for the equipment, which he recommended, he referred to his five -year-old practice. In the Photographic correspondence he wrote extensively about it in this year, 15 x 21 cm recommended the handy format and calculated the necessary weight of the equipment. A recording he estimated with a kilogram. He went from two hundred to be entrained plates with the appropriate utensils. For the transport of either three horse or a camel and a horse were necessary.
In 1900, photographed burgers for Count Wilczek Castle Kreuzenstein and used as a night scene of the castle three hundred single flashes. In 1905 he was imperial councilor.
Criticism
A Series of Thailand, the burger was for many years attributed to later proved to be the work of the Thai court photographer Francis Chit in Thai, among others Khunsunthonsathitlak. In the 2012 book by Donko, William M.: " On the trail of Austrian Navy in Siam (Thailand) " is the author p.144 -162, that the vast majority of Siam photographs by Wilhelm Burger 1869, in truth, Francis Chit dates. Regarding Japan Akiyoshi, Tani and Pantzer, Peter have in the article " Wilhelm Burger's Photographs of Japan: New Attributions of his Glass Negative Collection at the Austrian National Library. " Demonstrated in the magazine " Photo Researcher No. 15/ 2011," that a significant part of the Japan - photographs taken from 1869 not from Wilhelmsburger. The background of his photographs of the China - East Asia Expedition 1869 has been studied yet unspecified in this light.