Noack, Alfred August |
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BORN 25 Mar 1833, Dresden, Sachsen - DIED 21 Nov 1895, Genova, Liguria GRAVE LOCATION Genova, Liguria: Cimitero monumentale di Staglieno, Piazzale Resasco (Cimitero Protestante, viale d'accesso) |
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Alfred Noack was born in Dresden as the son of a doctor. He studied xylography in that city under Hugo Bürkner at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1856 he went to Rome where he stayed for four years and was a member of the Deutschen Kunstverein. In 1860 he moved to Genoa where opened a photo studio. During the 1860s his pictures of Genoa and the Ligurian landscape were very popular with tourists. After his death Carlo Paginini (1858-1930) inherited his studio and his archives. In 1926 it the collection was sold by Maria Paganini to the city of Genova. |
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 The grave of Alfred Noack at the Cimitero monumentale di Staglieno, Genoa. Picture by androom (03 Mar 2014) |
Sources • Alfred Noack – Wikipedia |
