Nicola Perscheid was a German photographer. He is primarily known for his artistic portrait photography. He developed the "Perscheid lens", a soft-focus lens for large-format portrait photography. He was born as Nikolaus Perscheid in Moselweiß near Koblenz, Germany, where he also went to school. At the age of 15, he began an apprenticeship as a photographer.

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  • Nicola Perscheid was a German photographer. He is primarily known for his artistic portrait photography. He developed the "Perscheid lens", a soft-focus lens for large-format portrait photography. He was born as Nikolaus Perscheid in Moselweiß near Koblenz, Germany, where he also went to school. At the age of 15, he began an apprenticeship as a photographer. Subsequently, Perscheid earned his living as an itinerant photographer; he worked, amongst other places, in Saarbrücken, Trier, and Colmar, but also in Nice, Vienna, or Budapest. In Klagenfurt in Austria he finally found a permanent position and on March 1, 1887, he became a member of the Photographic Society of Vienna (Wiener Photographische Gesellschaft). In 1889, he moved to Dresden, where he initially worked in the studio of Wilhelm Höffert, a well-known studio in Germany at that time, before opening his own studio in Görlitz on June 6, 1891. The next year he was appointed court photographer at the court of Albert, King of Saxony. In 1894, Perscheid moved to Leipzig. Perscheid had his first publication of an image of his in a renowned photography magazine in 1897, and subsequently participated in many exhibitions and also had contacts with artist Max Klinger. As an established and well-known photographer, he moved in 1905 to Berlin. There, he experimented with early techniques for color photography, without much success, and when his assistant Arthur Benda left him in 1907, Perscheid gave up these experiments altogether. His portraits, however, won him several important prizes, but apparently were not an economic success: he sold his studio on June 24, 1912. In October 1913, he held a course at the Swedish society of professional photographers, the Svenska Fotografernas Förbund, which must have been a success as it was praised even ten years later. In 1923, he followed a call by the Danish college for photography in Kopenhagen. Percheid had several students who would later become renowned photographers themselves. Arthur Benda studied with him from 1899 to 1902, and joined him again in 1906 as his assistant for experimenting with color photography. He left Perscheid in 1907; together with Dora Kallmus he went to Vienna and worked in her studio Atelier d'Ora, which he eventually took over and that continued to exist under the name d'Ora-Benda until 1965. Dora Philippine Kallmus herself also had studied from January to May 1907 at Perscheid's. Henry B. Goodwin, who later emigrated to Sweden and in 1913 organized Perscheid's course there, studied with Perscheid in 1903. Perscheid also influenced the Japanese photographer Toragorō Ariga, who studied in Berlin from 1908 to 1914 and also followed Perscheid's courses. He returned in 1915 to Japan. The Perscheid lens was developed around 1920. It is a soft-focus lens with a wide depth field, produced by Emil Busch AG after the specifications of Perscheid. The lens is designed especially for large-format portrait photography. Ariga introduced the Perscheid lens in Japan, where it became very popular amongst Japanese portrait photographers of the 1920s. Even after the sale of his studio, Perscheid continued to work as a photographer and even rented other studio rooms in 1917. Besides artistic photography, he also always did "profane" studio portraits, for instance for the Postkartenvertrieb Willi Sanke in Berlin that between 1910 and 1918 published a series of about 600 to 700 numbered aviation postcards, including a large number of portraits of flying aces, a number of which were done by Perscheid. Towards the end of the 1920s, Perscheid had severe financial problems. In autumn 1929 he had to sub-rent his apartment to be able to pay his own rent. Shortly afterwards, he suffered a stroke, and was hospitalized in spring of 1930. While he was at the hospital, his belongings, including his cameras and photographic plates, but also all his furniture were auctioned off to pay his debts. Two weeks after the auction, on May 12, 1930, Perscheid died at the Charité hospital in Berlin.
  • Nicola Perscheid, eigentlich Nikolaus Perscheid war ein deutscher Fotograf und einer der ersten Berufsfotografen Deutschlands. Im Jahr 1891 wurde er zum „Königlich Sächsischen Hofphotograph“ ernannt und war in den folgenden Jahrzehnten ein gefragter Porträtfotograf. Um 1920 entwickelte er ein Objektiv mit weichzeichnendem Effekt, weshalb es gerne für Porträtaufnahmen eingesetzt wurde.
  • Nicola Perscheid, född den 3 december 1864, avliden den 12 maj 1930, var en tysk fotograf framför allt berömd för sin porträttkonst. Han uppfann perscheidlinsen.
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  • Nicola Perscheid was a German photographer. He is primarily known for his artistic portrait photography. He developed the "Perscheid lens", a soft-focus lens for large-format portrait photography. He was born as Nikolaus Perscheid in Moselweiß near Koblenz, Germany, where he also went to school. At the age of 15, he began an apprenticeship as a photographer.
  • Nicola Perscheid, eigentlich Nikolaus Perscheid war ein deutscher Fotograf und einer der ersten Berufsfotografen Deutschlands. Im Jahr 1891 wurde er zum „Königlich Sächsischen Hofphotograph“ ernannt und war in den folgenden Jahrzehnten ein gefragter Porträtfotograf. Um 1920 entwickelte er ein Objektiv mit weichzeichnendem Effekt, weshalb es gerne für Porträtaufnahmen eingesetzt wurde.
  • Nicola Perscheid, född den 3 december 1864, avliden den 12 maj 1930, var en tysk fotograf framför allt berömd för sin porträttkonst. Han uppfann perscheidlinsen.
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