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Kriegsmann, Otto
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Professional
Details
Life dates
Flensburg [Schleswig, DK], 1854 - ?, ?
Activity
1888 - 1910 / Anvers, Rue du Chêne, 5<90-04> or 13<05-10>
Successor: Makeeff Philémon (& Fils)
Otto Wilhelm or Guillaume, ° 4.2.1854. Recorded a resident in Lille [F] by 16.2.1884; operated in Lille, Rue Gambetta, 58 in about 1886-1887. There are CVs at this address signed "W. Otto" which may well be by him. Arrived from Lille on 1.12.1887 and initially registered at Rempart du Lombard, 32. Operating at this address by May 1888, when he requested planning permission to place a sign above his door. There had been a Kriegsmann portrait studio in his native Flensburg since 1853, founded by his father Mathias Kriegsmann (° Flensburg [Schleswig, DK], 24.12.1808; + Flensburg [D], 27.3.1896) and subsequently run by his elder brother Heinrich Kriegsmann (° Flensburg [Schleswig, DK], 22.12.1849; + Flensburg [D]; 27.6.1931). Kriegsmann was a member of the Protestant Church, a focus for Antwerp's German community, and he photographed the church pastor Johannes Seitz (+ 1899). Left Antwerp around the time of the 1910 population census without informing the authorities but erroneously still recorded at this address in the 1913 Monod directory.
Successor: Makeeff Philémon (& Fils)
Otto Wilhelm or Guillaume, ° 4.2.1854. Recorded a resident in Lille [F] by 16.2.1884; operated in Lille, Rue Gambetta, 58 in about 1886-1887. There are CVs at this address signed "W. Otto" which may well be by him. Arrived from Lille on 1.12.1887 and initially registered at Rempart du Lombard, 32. Operating at this address by May 1888, when he requested planning permission to place a sign above his door. There had been a Kriegsmann portrait studio in his native Flensburg since 1853, founded by his father Mathias Kriegsmann (° Flensburg [Schleswig, DK], 24.12.1808; + Flensburg [D], 27.3.1896) and subsequently run by his elder brother Heinrich Kriegsmann (° Flensburg [Schleswig, DK], 22.12.1849; + Flensburg [D]; 27.6.1931). Kriegsmann was a member of the Protestant Church, a focus for Antwerp's German community, and he photographed the church pastor Johannes Seitz (+ 1899). Left Antwerp around the time of the 1910 population census without informing the authorities but erroneously still recorded at this address in the 1913 Monod directory.
Locations
1888 - 1910 / Anvers, Rue du Chêne, 5<90-04> or 13<05-10>
Exhibitions
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1894 - 1899
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#2498
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 29.12.2017, 1.1.2018 & 25.7.2018, partly based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 3.12.2018, 31.5.2019 & 16.4.2020 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 17.4.2021 based on information supplied by Dick Wursten (email of 15.4.2021); MD revised 16.4.2021 & 17.8.2021