Frantisek Fridrich

Czech, 1829-1892

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In 1857, he departed with his fiancée, Sara Gröger, née in Prague April 5,1837) for the United States. In 1860, the now married couple returned, and he began his ambitiously conceived career as a photographer of the historical sites and the countryside. By about 1870, he became one of the main landscape photographers in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The magazine Photographische Correspondence in 1880 made a list of Fridrich`s offices in cities around the world, including Sydney, Cape Town, New York and Francisco, among many others. More than studio portraiture Fridrich`s preferred milieu was photographing of landmarks and nature scenes. He was the first in Bohemia to photograph nudes and sports. He also created the first photographic greeting cards and pictorial variations of proverbs.