Background
Hugo Erfurth was born in 1874 in Halle, Germany.
Hugo Erfurth was born in 1874 in Halle, Germany.
He studied photography at Höffert Atelier, Dresden. He also studied painting briefly.
Erfurth took over the studio of Dresden's court photographer, Schröder. He later established a studio that was to become a meeting place for artists and other notables during the 1920s. He taught photography at the Book Trade Academy in Leipzig under Professor Tieman until World War I. Erfurth moved to Cologne in 1934, where most of his work was destroyed in an air raid in 1943.
In 1904 he designed a special photography section at the Dresden Exhibition.
He was the co-founder and chairman for many years of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner (GDL), the German Photographers' Society, 1919. Erfurth was also a member of the London Salon of Photography.
Quotes from others about the person
"In Hugo Erfurth," wrote Professor Dr. Otto Steinert, "we see one of the few great portraitists produced by photography."