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Dec 01, 1851 Berlin Died on 17 Apr 1927 (aged 75)
German photographer
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About Louis Held
- Carl Heinrich Louis Held (1 December 1851 – 17 April 1927) was a German photographer and a pioneer of photojournalism. Held was raised by relatives after the death of his parents in 1860.
- He first apprenticed in a company producing silk tissues before beginning a second apprenticeship as a photographer. He opened his first studio in Liegnitz in 1876, moved three years later to Berlin, and again three years later to Weimar.
- There, he became a protégé of Franz Liszt and was appointed court photographer of Carl Alexander, grand duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, in 1888.
- From 1890 on, he travelled throughout Germany, photographing for illustrated magazines. In 1912, he opened a cinema in Weimar.
- In 1923, he experimented with color photography.
