Hugo Erfurth; Otto Dix; Staatliche Landesbildstelle Hamburg; collection on the history of photography; silver gelatin paper; black and white positive process; image size: height: 39;5 cm; width: 30;8 cm; stamp: verso o. r.: HUGO ERFURTH; DRESDEN; ZINZENDORFSTR. 11; handwritten in lead added: K鰈n; Domkloster 1; o. in the middle in lead: 20 high; upper right in lead: Otto Dix; 1930 (according to P. Oehmen); in the middle in lead: please improve retouching! [with sketched areas]; in the center in red colored pencil: 16; lower right in lead: 822; inscribed: Passepartout verso and left: in lead: Repro-No; Portrait Photography; Portrait; Artist; Portrait; Self-portrait of an artist; Portrait; Self-portrait of a painter; Head; Face; Headshot; En face (frontal view); Otto Dix; At the beginning of the 20th century; Hugo Erfurth; along with Rudolph D黨rkoop and Nicola Perscheid; was one of the most famous professional photographers in Germany. After completing an apprenticeship as a photographer; he opened his own studio in Dresden at the age of only 22. Soon Erfurth orientated himself towards the up-and-coming pictorialist photography; participated in numerous amateur photographic exhibitions from 1894 onwards and managed to make a name for himself both as an artistically ennobled amateur and successful professional photographer. Portraits are central to his work; which he began taking in 1906 in his new studio; a classicist palace; in a stylishly elegant ambience; appealing to the wealthy bourgeoisie. He also produced numerous portraits of famous personalities; including K鋞he Kollwitz; Otto Dix and Joachim Ringelnatz. While his studies around 1905 still show full-length figures depicted in an atmospheric way; from the 1920s onward the focus is on the face; which is photographed against a simple monochrome background. Here; his pictorial approach corresponds to the portrait of classical modernism; whereby the technique of oil printing emphasizes the softness and materia