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Agthe, Auguste
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
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Status
- Amateur / Connected
Details
Life dates
Antwerp, 1851 - Kalmthout, 1928
Activity
1880 ca - 1904 Anvers, Pont de Meir, 9
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.
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.
Locations
1880 ca - 1904 Anvers, Pont de Meir, 9
Exhibitions
Antwerp, 1888; Antwerp, 1889; Antwerp, 1893; Antwerp, 1893 Cercle.
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Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1885 - 1893
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#40
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 24.4.2019 & 2.8.2020 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 31.5.2021 & 18.6.2023 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 24.1.2024 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 18.6.2020 & 12.4.2024