Los 4014

Australia
Aboriginal habitation

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 6.6.2026

Photographer: Gustav Adolph Riemer (1842-1899). Aboriginal habitation. 1876. Stereoscopic albumen print, mounted to card. Each 7,8 x 7,8 cm (mount ca. 8,5 x 17,8 cm). Printed caption along the recto margin: “Photographie von G. Riemer, Zahlmeister S. M. S. ‘Hertha’. Verl. von J. F. Stiehm, Berlin 1884 / 342. Australien, King Georges Sound / Marine Reise S. M. S. ‘Hertha’ nach Ost-Asien und den Südsee-Inseln.” Numbered “56” in pencil on the verso.

Gustav Adolph Riemer was a German naval officer who served as a purser in the Prussian and later Imperial German Navy. He developed photography as a largely self-taught practice alongside his military career. Between 1874-1877 he took part in the world voyage of SMS Hertha, during which he produced an extensive body of photographs across East Asia, Micronesia, Australia, and the South Seas - many of them among the earliest visual records of these regions and their inhabitants.