Illustrirte Zeitung, German illustrated weekly, founded in Leipzig by the Swiss-born publisher Johann Jakob Weber in 1843. It soon began printing wood-engraved illustrations based on photographs, such as a series on the new Altona railway station from daguerreotypes by Carl Ferdinand Stelzner (13 September 1845). But a major breakthrough was direct reproduction, from 1883, of photographs using Georg Meisenbach's early version of the half-tone process, patented in 1882. On 15 March 1884 it published action photographs of military manoeuvres by Ottomar Anschütz, and in December 1913 Antarctic pictures by Herbert Ponting. Like its fellow pioneers, L'Illustration and the Illustrated London News, it ultimately acquired a rather conservative image (and was known as ‘the old aunt’). It ceased publication in 1944.
— Robin Lenman
Bibliography
- Dewitz, B. v., and Lebeck, R., Kiosk: Eine Geschichte der Fotoreportage (2001)
