Professor Vogel
1886, printed 1895/1896
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 11.7 × 8.8 cm (4 5/8 × 3 7/16 in.)
page size: 34.8 × 27 cm (13 11/16 × 10 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.26
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Stieglitz Estate Number
72E
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2002
Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 1.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: Prof. Vogel / 1886
Wikidata ID
Q64037703
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
A highly respected photographic chemist and professor of chemistry and metallurgy at the Königliche Technische Hochschule in Berlin, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel discovered how to make photographic plates sensitive to the full spectrum of light. Stieglitz, who was enrolled at the Technische Hochschule from 1882 to 1886, studied with Vogel whose lectures and publications challenged the young photographer to make some of his most accomplished early work and provided him with an excellent grounding in the chemistry, optics, and techniques of photography.
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Location unknown [platinum]
Lifetime Exhibitions
A print from the same negative—perhaps a photograph from the Gallery’s collection—appeared in the following exhibition(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
1891, Hartford (no. 77, as Prof. Vogel (of Vienna))
1891, New York, Fourth Annual Joint Exhibition (no. 308, as Prof. Vogel, platinotype, silver medal)
1891, Glasgow (no. 145, as Professor Vogel, platinotype)
1891, New York, Society of Amateur Photographers (no. 225, as Prof. Vogel, platinotype)
1892, New York, The Society of Amateur Photographers of New York (as Professor Vogel, lantern slide)
1892, Boston (no. 316, as Prof. Vogel)
1900, Newark, Ohio (no. 169, as Portrait of Professor V., 1886)