Eickemeyer, Rudolf, Jr., 1862-1932
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Name (Latin)
Eickemeyer, Rudolf, Jr., 1862-1932
Other forms of name
nnea Eickemeyer, Rudolf, 1862-1932
Eickemeyer, Rudolph, Jr., 1862-1932
Date of birth
1862-08-07
Date of death
1932-04-25
Place of birth
Yonkers (N.Y.)
Place of death
Yonkers (N.Y.)
Place of residence/headquarters
New York (N.Y.)
Field of activity
Photography
Portrait photography
Photography, Artistic
Illustration of books
Associate group
Yonkers Camera Club
Linked Ring
Salon Club of America
Camera Club of New York
Occupation
Photographers
Portrait photographers
Illustrators
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- other names: Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr.; Rudolph Eickemeyer; Rudolph Eickemeyer Jr.; 1862, 7 August-1932, 24 April; born, died: Yonkers, N.Y.; father, a successful inventor of electrical machines; helped found the Yonkers Camera Club, 1889; in 1894, had a solo show at the Photographic Society of Philadelphia and his prints won top honors at both the seventh Joint Exhibition and England's Royal Photographic Society exhibition; elected to Linked Ring Brotherhood as one of the first Americans; became professional photographer in 1895, working at Carbon Studio, Campbell Art Company and the firm of Davis and Eickemeyer; non-resident member of Camera Club of New York; joined the Salon Club of America in 1904 and began exhibiting in their annual traveling American Photographic Salons; produced many genre and landscape photographs for book and magazine illustration ( (Peterson, Christian. "Approved biography for Rudolf Eickemeyer," Luminous Lint Web site, Apr. 2, 2015) )
- Panzer, M. In my studio, c1986:t.p. (in title, Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr.)
- LC data base, 5-11-87(hdg.: Eickemeyer, Rudolf, 1862-1932)
- Wikipedia, Apr. 2, 2015(Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. (August 7, 1862-April 25, 1932); born and died in Yonkers, N.Y.; American pictorialist photographer, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; father a noted inventor in fields of hatmaking and electical lighting; one of the first Americans to be admitted to the Linked Ring; famous for his portraits of high-society women; won 11 medals at the Yonkers Photo Club's Lantern Slide Exhibition in October 1890, and over the subsequent decade, he collected over a hundred medals at exhibitions and salons around the world; in 1895, joined the Carbon Studio in Manhattan; in 1900, joined the New York Camera Club, published his first book, Down south, and was appointed art manager of the Campbell Art Studio; in 1904, awarded the gold medal for photography at the St. Louis World's Fair; in 1905, purchased half of the photographic firm Davis and Stanford (renamed Davis and Eickemeyer), which operated out of a studio at 246 Fifth Avenue)
- OCLC, Apr. 2, 2015(usage: Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr.)