Schneider, Trutpert (1804-99), German painter and daguerreotypist, based in Baden, who learned photography from the Frenchman Joseph Broglie and went into business in 1848, eventually in partnership with his sons Heinrich and Wilhelm. The firm began making stereoscopic views in 1850, one of the earliest to do so. Between 1858 and 1862 the family travelled to Berlin, Silesia, Mecklenburg, and eventually Russia, photographing aristocratic and princely estates and monuments. (Count Dohna ordered over 50 views of his castle and gardens at Schlobitten, interiors, paintings, and family tombs.) The Schneiders' success quite late in the daguerreotype's history was probably due both to the quality of their work, and to the medium's exclusivity compared with mass-produced stereocards and cartes de visite. Their pictures, some hand tinted, are stamped ‘W. T. Schneider’ (until 1856) or ‘Stereoscop von T. Schneider und Soehne’.
— Robin Lenman
Bibliography
- Geiges, T., T. Schneider & Söhne 1847-1921 (1989)
