Posted 2 years ago
Sylvester22
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Very nice painting showing a vast mountain area, maybe the Alps with a village at its base. The work is not signed but it’s obvious someone cut this painting from some unknown size to about 9 1/4 x 7 inches. Sadly maybe just so it can fit into this frame. It needs a good cleaning and I think it has some age. The piece of cardboard on the back that the canvas is wrapped around, has German words on the red sticker and there is pencil writing also. Any help identify this painting would be great. Thanks
Sylvester22, Interesting.
Too bad about the original painting having been cut down. :-(
I suppose it's possible that it was done to salvage a portion of a painting that had already been damaged in some mishap (e.g. fire, flood).
I tend to think that red-stickered cardboard was just something 'recycled' for the cut-down artwork framing project, because that "Dr. C." turns out to have been this:
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Adox company is also called Dr. C. Schleussner Fotowerke GmbH. The company's founder, Dr. Carl Schleussner, did pioneering work on the wet-collodion process during the early years of photography, and founded the worlds first photochemical factory in 1860. Working with the physicist Wilhelm Röntgen, discoverer of X-rays, Dr. Schleussner invented the first X-ray plate.
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https://camerapedia.fandom.com/wiki/Adox_Start
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ADOX was originally a brand name used by the German company, Fotowerke Dr. C. Schleussner GmbH of Frankfurt am Main, the world's first photographic materials manufacturer. In 1962 the Schleussner family sold its photographic holdings to DuPont, an American company. DuPont used the brand for its subsidiary, Sterling Diagnostic Imaging for X-ray films. In 1999, Sterling was bought by the German company Agfa. Agfa did not use the brand and allowed its registration to lapse in 2003.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADOX
Sorry, I can't really make out what the hand-written information is, other than parts of it might read "Silber," and "Gold," so they may also be related to photochemical processing.
Wow, Keramikos thank you so much. You gave me some very interesting information from my painting. Now I have so new leads to hopefully help with identifying my poor mistreated painting. Thanks again, I really appreciate it.
Sylvester22, You're welcome. :-)
I was hoping at least to narrow down the age of the reframing a bit with the Fotowerke information, but I don't know that I really did that.
More about ADOX (translated via Google):
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The company's headquarters with administration and sales remained in Frankfurt, while plate production was relocated to a branch in Cologne. The rest of the production was moved to Neu-Isenburg, where the better environmental conditions made it possible to start celluloid film production.
Nazi period and post-war period
During the war, the works in Neu-Isenburg and Cologne were destroyed and rebuilt after the war. They received permission from the US Army to resume operations on July 15, 1945. In 1948 he sold the factory in Wiesbaden back to Henry Wirgin, whereupon Schleussner relocated the Adox camera factory to the premises of "Cella GmbH" in Wiesbaden.
The recipes and patents for manufacturing the films and papers were sold to the Yugoslav company Fotokemika Efke in Zagreb (since 1991 Croatia) in the 1960s. For reasons of naming rights, the products were and are offered under the "efke" brand for four decades.
The films and papers are sold both in the Efke packaging of their Croatian manufacturer and as a trademark of their Berlin distributor and owner of the rights to the Adox brand, Mirko Böddecker, in Adox packaging.
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https://www.veikkos-archiv.com/index.php?title=Dr._C._Schleussner_AG
https://www.adox.de/Photo/adox-the-brand/
ADOX now seems to be based in Berlin, but the historical details of the sprawling business are murky. Sigh.
It's a nice painting, and certainly evokes alpine Europe.
Ugh. One more link:
https://www.adox.de/Photo/adox-the-brand/