- Bernhard Wachtl
Bernhard Wachtl was an Austrian
lithographer whose printing firm was based inVienna . His work is dated mainly in the latter half of the 19th century and can be traced inAustria as well as in the Mediterranean region.Bernhard Wachtl, like the Vienna-based lithographers K. Krziwanek, Trapp & Munch, Turkel & Steiner, Ipop & Turkel, and Eisenschiml, designed and printed the logos of
photographic studios at theverso of the cartons supporting 19th century photographic prints. As a lithographer and printer of this specific product, Wachtl formed contracts throughout the Balkans and the East, from Athens to Batoum, Trebizond, Philippople and from Adrianople to Constantinople (Istanbul), Smyrna and Cairo. InGreece , especially, he handled thirty one photographic studios, such as the Rhomaides Brothers, George Moraites, Anastasios Gaziades, the Kanta Sisters, Nikolaos Zepji and Carl Merlin.At the verso of Greek Photographers: from the collections of the Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive, Ta Nea tou ELIA, 62, 2003: 39-43.www.elia.org.gr.]References
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