A Pioneer of Industrial Photography
A Pioneer of Industrial Photography
September 23, 2019
Employees of the Marianne Strobl Photo Studio at work in Victor Silberer’s villa, ca. 1898 © Municipality Semmering
Marianne Strobl (1865–1917) is known as the first woman to pursue industrial photography in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Unlike most of her female colleagues, she did not wish to make a living working in a portrait studio. Instead, she took her camera to major construction sites and industrial facilities in and around Vienna – a practice which required her to handle complex photographic equipment in difficult terrain.
In the years from 1894 to 1917, Strobl created a body of work which recently became one of the most sensational rediscoveries in the field of early industrial photography. In collaboration with Vienna’s Photoinstitut Bonartes, Das Verborgene Museum presents a compilation of around 60 black and white photographs from various Austrian collections, in order to introduce this remarkable turn-of-the-century pioneer to audiences outside of Vienna.
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Employees of the Marianne Strobl Photo Studio at work in Victor Silberer’s villa, ca. 1898 © Municipality Semmering
‘Ötscherhöhlen’ caves, Lower Austria, 1901 © Photoinstitut Bonartes, Vienna
Platform roof structure at the Praterstern station of the Wiener Stadtbahn railway, Vienna 1898 © Photoinstitut Bonartes, Vienna