Rudolf Franz Lehnert

Rudolf Franz Lehnert (13 July 1878 – 16 January 1948) was an Austrian photographer. He was noted for producing Orientalist images.

Rudolf Franz Lehnert
Born(1878-07-13)13 July 1878
Velká Úpa, Austria-Hungary
Died16 January 1948(1948-01-16) (aged 69)
Redeyef, French protectorate of Tunisia

Life

Lehnert was born in Gross Aupa in Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Velká Úpa, part of Pec pod Sněžkou in the Czech Republic).[1]

He first travelled to Tunis in 1904, and in 1904 he again visited with his friend, and subsequent business partner, Ernst Heinrich Landrock. The pair established a photographic studio in Tunis and worked closely for more than 20 years. They later established studios in successively, Munich, Leipzig and Cairo, publishing the works as by "Lehnert & Landrock".[2]

From the 1860s onwards, photographs of people with different cultural values and sexual morality became popular for artistic and erotic reasons. According to Pascal Baetens, they border on racism and ethnocentrism.[3]

Lehnert spent the last part of his life at Redeyef, Gafza Oasis, Tunisia, where he died.

See also

References
  1. Hannavy, J. (ed), Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, Routledge, 2013, p. 1032
  2. "Lettres 30-4, avril-août 1876", Naturalisme pas mort, University of Toronto Press, pp. 91–100, 1971-12-31, doi:10.3138/9781442656505-006, ISBN 9781442656505, retrieved 2022-10-31
  3. Baetens, Pascal (2007) Nude Photography, the art and the craft London: Doring Kindersley Limited, pp. 14-15 (ISBN 978-0-7566-3176-5)

Category:Expatriates in Tunisia

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