Eduard Isaac Asser

Eduard Isaac Asser (October 19, 1809 – September 21, 1894) was a lawyer and Dutch amateur photographer.

Eduard Isaac Asser
BornOctober 19, 1809
Amsterdam
DiedSeptember 21, 1894
Amsterdam
NationalityDutch
Still-life with self-portrait and his patented photolithography transfer paper, 1855

Biography

Asser was born in Amsterdam and became a successful lawyer and was thus able to afford his photography hobby, which was very expensive at the time.

Contributions

Asser's experiments with Daguerrotype were initially reproductions of academic art. He is best known for his efforts to make the photographic printing process cheaper, most notably with his patent on the Procédé Asser in 1858, a photolithography process.[1] He was an editor of the Dutch photography magazine and member of the Amsterdam photographers' society Helios.

Legacy

Asser died in Amsterdam and he is considered the father of photography in the Netherlands. His descendants gave 200 of his earliest photos from 1839–1860 to the national collection in 1993. Since then they have been kept in the Rijksmuseum. Besides using art studio techniques for still lifes, Asser took many pictures of his family, most notably a childhood portrait of Tobias Asser.[2]

References
  1. According to the Bulletin de la Société francaise de Photographie, Belgian patent nr. BE 7042, 21 January 1859
  2. "Portret van Tobias M.C. Asser, neef van de fotograaf, Eduard Isaac Asser, 1849". Rijksmuseum.

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