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Franziska Möllinger

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Pioneering Swiss photographer (1817-1880)

SwitzerlandArtistsLived 1817 to 1880 · aged 62
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Louise Franziska Möllinger (1817-1880) was a pioneering German-born Swiss photographer who worked with daguerreotypes in the early 1840s. She is thought to be the first female photographer who was active in Switzerland.

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Thun Castle (c.1844), Möllinger's only surviving daguerreotype originalThun Castle (c.1844), Möllinger's only surviving daguerreotype originalFrontispiece of Mönninger's 1844 collection of 16 lithographs of Swiss rural and city scenesFrontispiece of Mönninger's 1844 collection of 16 lithographs of Swiss rural and city scenes

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Louise Franziska Möllinger (1817-1880) was a pioneering German-born Swiss photographer who worked with daguerreotypes in the early 1840s. She is thought to be the first female photographer who was active in Switzerland. Möllinger was also the first in Switzerland to use lithography as a means of publishing multiple copies of her landscapes as early as 1844.

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Switzerland
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1817 to 1880 · aged 62
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