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Heinrich Carl Christian Kühn

 
Heinrich Carl Christian Kühn

19th-20th century Austrian photographer
(Dresden, Germany, 1866 - 1944, Birgitz, Austria)

Note: The grandson of a sculptor, Heinrich Kühn studied painting and music and, after a brief military stint, medicine and natural science. From this training he turned to microscopic photography, but around 1890, after continued experiments with this procedure, he gave up medicine entirely and devoted himself solely to photography. He is known for photographs in the Pictorialist style. Kühn was also involved in technical investigations and research, and in 1934 he received a patent for a film with increased light sensitivity.

3 objects

Windblown

ca. 1907
gum bichromate print
Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund
1987.14
 

Reitz in Oberinntal

1909
bromoil print
Museum Purchase
1989.31
 

Edeltrude and Walter Kuhn

1906-1907
gum bichromate print
Museum Purchase
1993.1