About Rudolf Dührkoop
Lived 1848 – 1918 (aged 69). Rudolf Dührkoop was a photographer.
Rudolf Johannes Dührkoop (1 August 18483 April 1918) was a German portrait photographer and one of the leading early representatives of pictorialism.
Biography Dührkoop was born to Christian Friederich Dührkoop, a carpenter, and his wife, Johanna Friederica Emile, in Hamburg. After serving in the Franco-Prussian War, he returned home and married Maria Louise Caroline Matzen. They had two daughters, Hanna Maria Theresia and Julie Wilhelmine, who also became a photographer, under the name Minya Diez-Dührkoop.
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Who was Rudolf Dührkoop?
German photographer (1848-1918)
When was Rudolf Dührkoop born?
Rudolf Dührkoop was born on 1 August 1848 in Hamburg.
When did Rudolf Dührkoop die?
Rudolf Dührkoop died on 3 April 1918 in Hamburg.
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Rudolf Dührkoop was a photographer.
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Rudolf Dührkoop's recorded nationality: Hamburg.
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