William Kurtz (1833 – December 5, 1904) was a German-American artist, illustrator, and photographer. He was also a pioneer in the development of halftone printing of color photographs.
Table of Contents
- 1 Early life
- 1.1 Excommunicated from the Union: How the Civil War Created a Separate Catholic America (The North's Civil War)
- 1.2 Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19: IV. Allegro mosso
- 1.3 Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19: III. Andante
- 1.4 Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19: II. Allegro scherzando
- 1.5 Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19: I. Lento - Allegro moderato
- 1.6 William Kapell, Vol.7: Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3, Viola Sonata No. 1 / Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata
- 1.7 Betrayed: A Story of Three Women
- 1.8 I Love Lucy - The Complete Fourth Season
- 1.9 Lammas Night
- 1.10 The Temple and the Stone (Knights Templar)
Early life
Born in Hesse, Germany, he was apprenticed to a lithographer in Offenbach am Main at a youth age and showed considerable artistic talent, taking first place in exhibitions even though attending an art researcher there. However, after his two years of compulsory military service, he found he had purposeless his apprenticeship and moved to England to try his luck. Unable to find work there, he joined the British German Legion and went to fight in the Crimean War.
After the war, he was yet unable to get employment as a lithographer, so he became a sailor for several years. In 1859, he approved he would travel to China as soon as a friend. En route to San Francisco, his ship wrecked off the Falkland Islands. The passengers and crew were rescued and he was taken to New York City. Here, he was dexterous to find work in a photography studio. When the American Civil War began, he enlisted in the New York Seventh Regiment and served considering them intermittently higher than the course of the war.
In 1865, he entered into a partnership once fellow photographer George G. Rockwood, who was credited with popularizing the carte de visite in America. The next-door year he formed a studio later than another partner, named Huston. The two of them skillful a technique called “photosculpture”, which operational taking going on to 24 simultaneous photographs of a subject from various angles to incite a sculptor to create a sculpture of that person. Finally in 1873, he standard a studio upon his own in Madison Square.
Last update 2021-08-06