Background
Rudolf Eickemeyer was born on August 7, 1862 in Yonkers, New York, United States. He was the son of Rudolf and Mary True (Tarbell) Eickemeyer.
Rudolf Eickemeyer was born on August 7, 1862 in Yonkers, New York, United States. He was the son of Rudolf and Mary True (Tarbell) Eickemeyer.
Educated Public school, Yonkers, and Hoboken Academy.
Rudolf Eickemeyer purchased his first camera and took his first photograph, an albumen print of his sister, the following day. He considered pursuing a career as a photographer, but his father disapproved, so he continued working for his father's firm.
After his father's death in 1895, he left his father's firm and joined the Carbon Studio in Manhattan, which specialized in portraits, and gained a reputation for photographs of high-society women.
In 1900, Rudolf Eickemeyer joined the New York Camera Club, and exhibited 154 frames in his first one-man show at the club. That same year, he published his first book, Down South, and was appointed art manager of the Campbell Art Studio on Fifth Avenue, with which he would remain intermittently until 1915.
He purchased half of the photographic firm, Davis and Stanford (renamed Davis and Eickemeyer), which operated out of a studio at 246 Fifth Avenue. In 1911, Eickemeyer was commissioned by William Randolph Hearst to photograph American wives of British peerage as part of the coronation ceremonies of King George V. Rudolf Eickemeyer hosted a restropective of his work at the Anderson Galleries in New York in 1922, and made his last submissions to the London Salon in 1926. In 1929, Rudolf Eickemeyer donated most of his best-known photographs to the Smithsonian Institution. T
The following year, Rudolf Eickemeyer served as a judge in Kodak's international photography competition alongside Thomas Edison, John J. Pershing, Richard E. Byrd, and Benito Mussolini. He died at St. John's Hospital in Yonkers in 1932.
Eickemeyer's photo of Evelyn Nesbit lying on a bear-skin rug
(Eickemeyer's photo of Evelyn Nesbit lying on a bear-skin rug)
As She Comes Down the Stairs
(The model is Eickemeyer's wife, Isabelle)
1894Sweet Home
Lily Gatherer
Evelyn Nesbit
Vesper Bells
Mary Garden as Mélisande
Uncle Essick
Evelyn Florence Nesbit
Stage actress, Ione Bright
Married Isabelle Hicks, October 7, 1891. Married second, Florence Brevoort, June 1, 1918.