Ludwig Angerer

Ludwig Angerer (August 15, 1827 – May 12, 1879) was an Austrian photographer who founded the first photo studio in Vienna and was appointed k.k. court photographer by Emperor Franz Joseph I. He is also known for taking some of the earliest photographs of Bucharest.

In 1857 Angerer was the first to offer carte de visite photography in Vienna, which was very popular in Paris from 1859, and made a significant contribution to its dissemination. In 1867 he built a branch workshop in the city. From 1872 he ran a studio together with his brother Viktor Angerer. In 1873 he retired from the business due to illness and handed it over to his brother Viktor.

He portrayed Austrian and foreign celebrities and also made cityscapes of Vienna as well as genre and animal studies. As an amateur, he did important work on the topography of the monarchy. His images of the Austrian royalty are among the most famous of his work.

Viktor Angerer, 1879, participants of the so-called ”Makart-Festzug”, with the painter Hans Makart appearing in the center.

The ”Makart pageant” on Sunday, April 27, 1879 in Vienna was officially called the ”Pageant for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the wedding of the Imperial Couple, organized by the capital and residential city of Vienna” and was part of the celebrations for the silver wedding anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph I and his wife Elisabeth. The metropolis Vienna, which was in full swing, celebrated itself on this occasion. Art, science, trade, commerce, industry, paraded from the Prater over the Jägerzeile (today’s Praterstrasse) and the newly built Vienna Ringstrasse. The forty groups with well over 2,000 participants who formed the historicizing costume procession in Renaissance costume designed by the painter Hans Makart were particularly applauded. Makart took Albrecht Dürer's illustrations for a Maximilian pageant as a model.