DIRECTORY_1997#40 new approved FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen conventionDeclaration ISAAR(CPF): Internationale norm voor archivistische geautoriseerde beschrijvingen van organisaties, personen en families, Antwerpen/Leuven/Amsterdam 2006. detailLevel http://ica-atom.org/doc/RS-2#5.4 created January 2, 2015 9:28:26 AM CET human revised July 20, 2024 3:23:09 PM CEST human Person (Male) person Agthe, Auguste conventionDeclaration Amateur / Connected conventionDeclaration Antwerp, 1851 - Kalmthout, 1928 1880 ca - 1904 Anvers, Pont de Meir, 9 Antwerp, 1888; Antwerp, 1889; Antwerp, 1892 Cercle; Antwerp, 1893; Antwerp, 1893 Cercle; Antwerp, 1904 ABP.

<b>1880 ca - 1904 Anvers, Pont de Meir, 9</b> Auguste Julius, ° 2.3.1851; + 23.1.1928. Optician and watchmaker. Constructed a camera for kite photography in 1888. Two views in the collection of the Museum of Photography in Antwerp, taken in Antwerp Zoo and dated to 1888, are signed "A. Agthe". Photographs of the 1889 disaster of Antwerp (explosion of an ammunition factory). Member of the photographic section of the "Cercle artistique, littéraire et scientifique d’Anvers", commissioner in 1903-1905. His father, Christophe Julius Agthe (° Sangerhausen [Prussia], 31.7.1818), active as a watchmaker in Antwerp since March 1839, was registered as a watchmaker and optician at this address in 1880. Ink stamp on views, c. 1880, "J. Agthe & Fils / Horloger Opticien" at this address, pointing to the sale of photographs.

Association belge de Photographie 1885 1893