Hugo Erfurth; double portrait in the landscape; paper; oil print; image size: height: 14;8 cm; width: 20;2 cm; signed: recto u. re. in lead: Hugo Erfurth 1912; inscribed: verso in the middle: in lead: oil; stamp: verso and left: inscribed: inside right passepartoutside: in lead and in the middle: Hugo Erfurth; 1912; ('Oel') s. backside!; Kh 1981; lower right in lead: cat. No. 419; inscribed: verso passe-partout cardboard and left: in lead: 7; portrait photography; double portrait; mother; daughter; meadow; pasture; artist and his family; At the beginning of the 20th century; Hugo Erfurth; along with Rudolph D黨rkoop and Nicola Perscheid; was one of the most famous professional photographers in Germany. After completing an apprenticeship as a photographer; he opened his own studio in Dresden at the age of only 22. Soon Erfurth orientated himself towards the up-and-coming pictorialist photography; participated in numerous amateur photographic exhibitions from 1894 onwards and managed to make a name for himself both as an artistically ennobled amateur and successful professional photographer. Portraits are central to his work; which he began taking in 1906 in his new studio; a classicist palace; in a stylishly elegant ambience; appealing to the wealthy bourgeoisie. He also produced numerous portraits of famous personalities; including K鋞he Kollwitz; Otto Dix and Joachim Ringelnatz. While his studies around 1905 still show full-length figures depicted in an atmospheric way; from the 1920s onward the focus is on the face; which is photographed against a simple monochrome background. Here; his pictorial approach corresponds to the portrait of classical modernism; whereby the technique of oil printing emphasizes the softness and materiality of the pigments and at the same time places the portraits in the art-photographic tradition. Erfurth is a co-founder of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner (1919); teaches at the Leipzig Academy and moves from Dresden to Cologne