Adolphe braun biography definition
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Adolphe Braun
French photographer
Jean Adolphe Braun (13 June 1812 – 31 December 1877)[1] was a French photographer, best known for his floral still lifes, Parisian street scenes, and grand Alpine landscapes.
One of the most influential French photographers of the 19th century,[2] he used contemporary innovations in photographic reproduction to market his photographs worldwide.
Adolphe braun biography definition
In his later years, he used photographic techniques to reproduce famous works of art, which helped advance the field of art history.[3]
Life
Braun was born in Besançon in 1812, the eldest child of Samuel Braun (1785–1877), a police officer, and Marie Antoinette Regard (born 1795).
When he was about 10, his family relocated to Mulhouse, a textile manufacturing center in the Alsace region along the Franco-German border. He showed promise as a draftsman, and was sent to Paris in 1828 to study decorative design.
In 1834, he married Louis Marie Danet, who he had th