Berthold Schöps (active Berlin circa 1905-15)
Portrait of artist Otto Illies at his easel
circa 1908-1911
gelatin silver print mounted on gray card (cabinet card)
17 x 11 cm
signed lower right: "Berthold Schöps Berlin S.O."
The Daulton Collection
The painter Otto Illies (Yokohama 1881-1959 Wernigerode) was the cousin of artist Arthur Illies. From 1903 to 1908, Otto Illies was at student of Ludwig von Hofmann at the Weimar Art School [Weimarer Kunstschule]. In 1908, Illies exhibited with the Berlin Secession; and from 1908 to 1911, he shared a studio with Hans Delbrück in Berlin. This photograph dates from that period.
